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You must put effort into planning your networking. Like any other project, you need to plan it, schedule it and monitor success. That way, you’ll spot blind alleys before time and effort is wasted, freeing you up to follow more promising leads. How you plan such a personal thing as networking is up to you. You might create a spreadsheet and enter in your goals, activities, and resulting business in it, with scheduled alerts to meet new contacts regularly. You might create a mind map connecting people and ideas in a more organic way. The choice is yours, but a few key questions will shape that plan:

 What do I want to achieve for myself and my business in the long term?

 Who do I want to meet to help me achieve that?

 How much time/money can I spend per month?

 What are my immediate networking goals at each event?

 How do I measure my networking success?

 Do I need different tactics for different groups?

You will have many of your own questions to add to the above, but this list may give you ideas as to how you might plan your own networking successfully.