Pinging!!!!
Pinging means briefly contacting with someone in your contact database. As you gather a lot of contacts, it’s good to occassionally reach out to everyone, but certainly to those who are centers of influence and good people.
A lot of customer relationship databases (like Outlook, Act, Salesforce, etc..) can be programmed to notify you to reach out and contact people and even send out an email automatically!
I keep a running list of people that I’d like to contact and I carry a printed copy that I take with me every day. That way, while I’m driving, in line, or doing any thoughtless task that doesn’t require my complete attention, I can call someone, text them, or email them and PING!
I highly recommend everyone get a “cardscan” machine to scan business cards into your “crm” so you don’t have to type them in manually.
I’d also suggest that you look over your database monthly to see who you should add to the list to PING!
Please add your own suggestions or comments to this post, and as always, ADD VALUE!
Thanks,
Steven Klein “SuperKonnector”
PS – look for a cool video as I now have my digital camera with me wherever I go!
PSS – at the end of next week, I’ll have a posting with a video summary of all of the postings M-F! Can’t wait! that’ll be fun! Have a great day!
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