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Networking

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A practical guide built around one idea worth sitting with: network before you need something, so you're not always showing up with an ask. It's a useful checklist for the in-between-launches work your answer calls for, actual tactics for staying present in people's lives without always arriving with a request.

• The best networkers reach out most often when they don't need anything
• Consistent, low-stakes contact keeps a relationship warm without spending goodwill
• Following up and staying useful matters more than any single well-crafted ask