Business TV: top tips from networking specialist Andy Lopata

[NikiPikiMilo]

People forget to establish exactly what their time should be valued at. They need to ask themselves could someone else be doing this for me? Andy drives the message home networking needs to be done by the right person because then the investment of your time really pays off.

[businessexpertsjax]

I need to share this with the connections I have made through networking sites... great point! And for those people that say they don't want to pay out for membership on networking sites, well the loss is really theirs!

[BusinessExpertsNat]

Very true.  Andy is such a great speaker and makes a lot of sense. Would definitely be interested in hearing more from him!

[businesstvdavid]

When I watch this, I just wish that nearly everyone I know from previous networking groups could use this advice - the groups would have been so much more successful...

[BusinessExpertLouise]

Networking as a key to building business and revenue...great advice.

[businesstvmark]

If you don't know your desired financial return - how can you make it happen? Good thinking ...

[businesstvAmanda]

Andy lopata raises a great point about looking ROI. People often set unrealistic estimates on what their time is worth ($).

People need to look at social networking as an exercise and weigh up whether qualifying people on line would be more profitable than time spent in a car or on a phone cold calling people that won't be interested .

Great interview, Andy is a great talker and puts things in a very clear cut manner.

[businessexpertandre]

Great point about the time investment and opportunity cost of networking. Another criteria should definitely be what type of network should you be involved in. I've seen another yourBusinessChannel show featuring Dr Ivan Misner who says that when networking, you shouldn't network with people similar to yourself because they all move in the same circles. To expand your network, you need to get to know people outside your normal sphere of business.

[businessexpertsalli]

I think Andy had some great advice. A lot of people don't actually put much time into measuring their success which kind of defeats the purpose of what you set out to achieve.

[businesstvkelsi]

Andy Lopata really brings home the fact that when networking for business you need to have clear goals, like in any aspect of business, and know the economics of it, what could you be doing otherwise because networking actually quite time consuming.

[businesstvAndie]

Andy Lopata, has definitely put forward some interesting points in regard to ROI. Most people tend to ignore or overlook these points when they think about networking from a business point of view.

[businesstvAndie]

Andy Lopata, has definitely put forward some interesting points in regard to ROI. Most people tend to ignore or overlook these points when they think about networking from a business point of view.

[businesstvAndie]

Andy Lopata, has definitely put forward some interesting points in regard to ROI. Most people tend to ignore or overlook these points when they think about networking from a business point of view.