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Subscribe into as many forums and blogs as possible:
Make yourself known, especially through a well-known userid you use to post messages to such forums. Popular threads, however old, retain the owner's image and earns respect from viewers.
This would also increase your general-knowledge of the marketing jargon used in the seminar and group talks. This is essential for interaction with people. Dumbness will make your ideas irrelevant.
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Volunteer to lead:
By volunteering you make a difference to your personality. It also helps make important networking contacts. Arrange meetings with appropriate contacts. During the meeting, demonstrate how your particular skills and experience can serve the business needs and bring added value.
You will learn new skills and your communication would improve. Consider asking your superiors to use his or her contacts to open doors and help obtain assignments.
Meet new people and and build self-esteem and self-confidence needed to bear on your networking. Leading automatically garners respect from peers and superiors, don't bother with your followers.
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Mix in as many "small" groups as you can:
Take advantage of the opportunity to address yourself easily to smaller groups. Everybody would listen and understand you better.
Start your conversation with a "strange" idea. Onset of a debate is what matters, and you will get enough contacts to build on "your" ideas.
Disagree whenever you can. It adds credibility and attracts attention by raising a few eyebrows.
Feel interested and ask questions nobody would understand. It makes you more visible to the audience and seeks company of few like-minded ones. Staying mute is not an option.
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Publish a book or article on "Internet marketing" on a popular forum:
Having a good following, especially from a popular forum, adds mouths to your advertising. Memorable quotes in your write-up have the potential of striking an important chord in your network.
Make sure to add your contact info or web-site at the end. Let people call you back if they are interested.
Become as knowledgeable as possible about the area of Internet marketing and be able to effectively demonstrate that your sound knowledge can contribute to business.
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Become moderator of some community :
A forum or community that deals with that particular seminar & its participants would know you very well and accept your verdict in various subjects.
Again, volunteering makes your reach go farther and thus, more networking. The simplest form of networking could be through free community arenas like orkut. Regularly make comments about certain threads or relevancy of the community.
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Feel curious enough to say everyone you meet "Hi, what do you know about this seminar":
Talk about your experience and flip in your website or contact info during the conversation.
Talk in numbers and not paragraphs. Expect everyone there at the seminar to be busy. It adds professionalism to your approach.
Never ever reveal complete truth about yourself. Keeping some ambiguity in your achievements makes people wonder if you are extraordinary. It also helps in getting greater credibility for your networks.
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Keep visiting-cards handy:
Include your contact information and especially your website. Slip it in during the handshake or at the end of your conversation.
Remember as many names and faces as you can remember. This is critically important as it would impress those who call you back and thus enhance your chances of a stronger adhesion in your networks.
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Cool "geeky" looks:
No matter what level you are at in your marketing career, a geeky look emphatically bestows greater chances of meeting Internet marketing enthusiasts. However, do not render absence of professionalism in your personality.
Stay stylish too, to display your outlays, even if not real. Propagate the belief of earning quick success in Internet marketing. People like quick and easy routes, and thus they would come to you.
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Be late for the seminar:
You get extra attention and more people remember your face. It is essential for networking that your face be remembered by strangers, only then can you expect people to listen to you.
Also, sit back and enjoy the seminar, while making note of any super-interested people in the middle benches, whom you may want to connect with at the end of the seminar.
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The Best Never Rest:
Most importantly - follow the principle of hard work. People will love you and appreciate your actions only when they see you as restless.
Keep in touch with those you could connect with through the above strategies. Timely replies and an offer of help will gain you surplus of ideas and associations.
