If hardwork is the key to success, networking is a password that opens many such doors that lead to success! And the key to networking is taking the initiative and refining your conversational skills.

Networking can get you a job, get you a higher position or otherwise expand your business horizons. But networking is a skill many of you might be born with it, for everyone else theres www.memsaab.com!

Here are some of the guidelines and tips you can take aid of, for building and maintaining good networks:

Stay in touch with people you like and respect even if they cant help you immediately. You dont want to go to someone only when you are desperate!

Talk to people you dont know, wherever you go. Cocktail parties and weddings are just the tip of the iceberg; dont forget about airplane rides, supermarket lines, sporting events, festivals, bookstores and so on and so forth.

Learn to ask "What do you do?" with comfort, sincerity and interest.

Become a better listener. Ask a question and then be quiet until you hear the answer.

Practice your own presentation of your skills. Learn more than one approach, whether frank or subtle.

Keep a great updated brochure, business card or other form of information about yourself on you at all (or most) times. Get (for learn being) comfortable handing out your card.

If required take classes, (or even short lesions from someone who knows it well) to improve your public speaking, body language and writing skills.

Join every networking club and association in your field, and participate actively. Simply being a dormant member doesnt help.

Follow up on any lead, no matter how minor, or disinteresting.

Finally, a last bit of advice. Networking may be as much about speaking as talking nonsense is. So, like in every other case, think before you network. After taking the first step towards networking, like introducing yourself, and asking the other persons occupation (which you may take instinctively), evaluate it. Sometimes its appropriate, sometimes its not.