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I spoke at an business dinner last night in Temecula, California. My talk was billed as "The Heart and Soul of Networking". Take it from me, you can change your situation dramatically through effective networking.

As far as I'm concerned, that now starts with LinkedIn.com. You can get much faster results because you're connected to someone who's connected to someone and you are introduced via the internet. Right now I am connected to just under a million people through four degrees of relationship. I am connected directly to two new people as of this morning which brings the total of my direct connections to 137. The number of people on my second degree which includes all those directly connected to those on my first degree [direct relationships to me] is 6,100+. Three degrees away the total is 200,100+. Anyone who directly links to me has that number on their fourth degree even if they're linked to no one else directly. My fourth degree total is 741,500+ and there are 29,900+ users who can be contacted without a referral [brave bunch!] for a grand total of 977,900+ people in my network at LinkedIn.com. Within an hour or so, that grand total will grow by hundreds of people because new connections are being added all the time.

The power of this is huge. You have an ocean of people you can connect with. If you're unsure, you can start growing your LinkedIn network two ways. First, by inviting people who are your trusted associates or people with great skill sets you would recommend to other people. Second, you can send a request through the LinkedIn system to meet someone who is directly Linked to someone you're directly Linked to. That's what would happen in a restaurant. "Hello Bill! This is Patricia and she's got something that could really be of value to you in what you're currently doing."
That's how I started last March after being introduced to LinkedIn.com by Gary Dale Cearley in Vietnam. Gary was kind enough to set up an automatic reminder every ten days which I received starting in January! I finally got it.

Is there a catch? Well, if you sign up by yourself, you're connected to zero people, but if you receive an invitation, that person's first three degrees are part of your network. So, who do you know that will send you an invitation to LinkedIn?

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