The Kobe Bryant approach to networking

While I was watching Kobe doing work the Spike Lee documentary, I noticed something that Kobe said that made me realize basketball and networking are very similar activities. Kobe said “If I miss three shots I think to myself the 4th will have to go in and if I miss again the 5th will certainly go in”.

This is a similar strategy on how a person should network. If you contact a person and they don’t respond on the first three trys then you must believe they will on the fourth. You may think, isn’t that stalking? The answer is in the business world no it’s called persistance. Every person worth networking with has a busy schedule and if they don’t remember that you called, it’s not on purpose they are just busy.

One strategy I use is to make sure I contact people in multiple ways. Raising then odds in my favor that they remember I contacted them. What strategies do you use?

Building a high traffic blog

Creating a blog is hard work period. I think hard is actually an understatement. To be honest when I first started blogging I thought it would be as easy as just writing a few paragraphs every now and then. Then one day I actually started doing it. I was like this is a whole new world of complexity.

I’ve been doing some research on the topic and following other popular bloggers like Tim Ferris, Seth Godin, Mark Cuban and even Perez Hilton. Some things that they all have in common is that they write about interesting things and already had a fan base from other ventures except for Perez. If your interested in finding out more about the concept watch this video by Tim Ferris one of the decades most exciting authors. He pretty much summed up everything that I use and would use.