Ways to Build Your Youngevity® Business

It’s Not Just About Business Cards Anymore

Let’s define the kind of networking that builds business. It’s not just circulating through a room exchanging business cards! A broader view of networking is creating a pool of contacts from which you can draw clients, referrals, resources, ideas, and information. Your business network can, and should, include colleagues, a wide range of business people, and personal friends, as well as customers and prospects.

Branching Out

Meeting people at organized events is one of the easiest ways to build an extensive network. The key is to attend the right kinds of events. Don’t spend all your time networking within your industry. Be sure that some of the events you attend are also attended by potential recruits and customers, and by other professionals who may be able to refer business to you.

Here are some popular choices for networking events: Chamber of Commerce mixers, workshops, and award ceremonies; service clubs such as Rotary and Kiwanis; trade and professional association meetings where customers, recruits, or potential referral sources gather; lectures, conferences, and fundraisers hosted by educational institutions, community organizations, and affinity groups; social, cultural, and sporting events that include receptions or other mix-and-mingle time.

Don’t forget about the private gatherings specifically organized for the purpose of meeting new people, either.

Join the Club

The way to get the most value from a group is to become a member of it. You will have more success if you go back to the same groups over and over than if you keep going to new groups all the time. Find two or three that seem to have the right mix of people, and keep going back.

Follow Up, Then Follow Up Some More

Follow up with the people you meet immediately. If you don’t, you’ve just wasted your time in meeting them. Call potential recruits or customers and reintroduce yourself. Describe what you’re offering, determine their level of interest, and invite them to take the next step by attending a presentation or party, or viewing your catalog. When you meet people in a position to lead you to more prospects or refer business in the future, call them to suggest coffee or lunch, or offer to stop by. In either case, after making contact, put them in your calendar to follow up with again in a month or two.

It is simply untrue that prospects will “call when they are ready.”  The truth is, if people have met you only once, they probably don’t even remember you, and it’s even less likely that they will remember where they put your card.

Social Media

Tell your Facebook friends and your Twitter followers about these great products and the business opportunity.  That way they’ll tell THEIR friends and their friends will tell THEIR friends!

The Keyword is Relationships

If networking that builds business sounds like hard work, you’re right.  Forming relationships both offline and online takes time and effort. But those relationships are the core of networking. 
Your network should include people whom you truly enjoy interacting with, because if you’re doing it right, you’ll be spending a lot of time with them.

Being able to build successful relationships is what effective networking is all about. It’s what separates successful Associates from those who don’t make it.  Networking doesn’t always pay off immediately. You need to put in the effort now, and trust that you will see results later. The Associates who followed that rule when THEY were new are now the successful “old-timers” who can testify that networking really does work.

Go to Sam and Amiee Walker’s Youngevity site to order products, or to join Youngevity as an Associate member for only $10!  If you have any questions or comments, contact us at:  samiee1117@youngevityonline.com.





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