If you’re like me you most likely hate traditional networking, because lets just be honest, this is what happens. You show up at an event where you don’t know anybody, hoping that you can get business from strangers, which if you think about it, it’s absolutely crazy. Why? Because no stranger that has a ton of business is sitting around trying to figure out how to give their tons of business to other strangers. So what really happens is, when you show up at a networking event, you expect somebody else to have business, you find out that they don’t have any business, and they expected you to have business, and then they find out that you don’t have any business, and it turns out that neither one of you have any business networking, because you don’t have a network to share amongst each other anyway.

Well, it can be frustrating for both parties, it can be frustrating for everybody. I’ve seen a lot of people start up network groups and then let the network groups crumble, because none of the members had any value to give. What happens is, you get a bunch of leeches and a bunch of bloodsuckers showing up at these networking events, and they’re never giving any leads away, but they’re always trying to take leads from other people. Any time you put multiple folks in a scenario of that magnitude in that situation, where they’re just trying to get business from each other instead of give value to each other, it’s just not going to work out.

You don’t really have a choice when it comes to the traditional networking groups, on who you’re going to be able to connect with, you don’t know who’s going to be at the next meeting, especially if you’re showing up to a new one, you don’t know the caliber of person that’s going to be there.

So, if you hate all that, if it frustrates you, I’ve got good news for you, there is a better way. You see, right now you can go on sites like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, LinkedIn, and you can send a friend request, you can follow, or you can send a fan request to any person that you want. You see, in the time that you spend driving back and forth to traditional networking events where you’re not going to get any business from anyone, you could spend that time trying to coddle, trying to give value trying to get to know somebody on a social media site, because listen, today’s day and age people consider their friends online just as close as their friends offline. So, if you translate that into the business world, your network online is just as powerful as your network offline. So try this instead, this is what we call the Lucky 7 Method.

The Lucky 7 Method works just like this. Each day, seven days a week, you make three moves. Seven days a week you make three moves. You send one person a direct message right? You’d say something, you’d go check their wall, you can look up social reconnaissance, which is a previous blog post that we’ve written here on this site, you can click the link right here to it. You can also … The second move that you do every day, is write on a new person’s wall. Be strategic about the people that you’re engaging, but write on somebody else’s wall. Send a direct message to one person, write on somebody else’s wall and the third thing that you do, seven days a week, is you leave a comment on somebody’s post. 

If you did that three times a day, seven days a week for an entire month, you’ll have contacted 93 different people in your network, and if you choose correctly, the ones that you’ll have interacted with, would be the ones that you’d most likely get business from. So, if you’re tired of traditional networking, if you’re tired of the roaches and leeches trying to get business from you that you don’t have in the first place, try the Lucky 7 Method. We call it the Lucky 7 Method, because it gets a lot of people lucky, seven days a week.

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