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ISBN10: 1260452832 | ISBN13: 9781260452839

ISBN10: 1260452832
ISBN13: 9781260452839
By Zvi Band

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A proven step-by-step approach to leveraging the unique power of relationships to your best business advantage.

Our professional relationships are the most important asset we have when it comes to growing our careers and our businesses. Most people think of this as “networking.” But in today’s hyperconnected market, the most cost-effective and high-return route to new, repeat, and referral business is through our existing networks, not through adding more social media “friends” and “connections.” This transformative guide from relationship marketing expert Zvi Band shows you how to deepen your personal connections to achieve your professional goals—using the CAPITAL strategy of relationship-building techniques:

Consistency: develop good habits to form stronger relationships 
Aggregate: build a personal database of professional contacts
Prioritize: order your network based on who can help
Investigate: collect intelligence on the people who are most important to you
Timely Engagement: create a steady cadence in your outreach
Adding Value: offer more than a simple follow-up
Leverage: execute more effectively

The basic idea behind these powerful tools is simple: Effective relationship building is not about acquiring new contacts. It’s about strengthening your connections with the key people who will help you drive your business forward. Through a combination of personal research, best practices, and case studies, Band provides a prescriptive strategy you can customize and follow every day. You’ll find cost-effective, high-yield tools that can be implemented via social media and other digital platforms. You’ll discover the best-kept secrets of the most popular companies in the world—and time-saving techniques for achieving similar results with your own customers. Most important, you can make the most of what you already have: the simple human connections that make everything worthwhile.

In business, as in life, it all comes down to the quality of your relationships. When the right people are on your side, Success Is in Your Sphere.


INTRODUCTION: Relationships Are Our Most
Important Asset

CHAPTER 1 People Do Business with
People They Know

CHAPTER 2 The Barriers to Maintaining Relationships

CHAPTER 3 Setting the Baseline: Understanding
Your Goals

CHAPTER 4 The CAPITAL Strategy for Managing
Your Relationships

CHAPTER 5 Consistent Execution: Setting up the Right
Habits So You Can Play the Long Game

CHAPTER 6 Aggregate: Building Your Sphere

CHAPTER 7 Prioritize: Highlighting Those in Your
Network Who Can Help

CHAPTER 8 Investigate: Collecting Intelligence on the
People Who Are Most Important to You

CHAPTER 9 Timely Engagement: Building a Rhythm
to Your Follow-Up

CHAPTER 10 Add Value, Part 1: Doing Meaningful
Actions

CHAPTER 11 Add Value, Part 2: Offering More
Through Connection

CHAPTER 12 Leverage: Executing More Efficiently

CHAPTER 13 Getting Results

CHAPTER 14 How It Works in the Real World

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Appendices
APPENDIX A: Tools
APPENDIX B: Sample Buckets
APPENDIX C: Message Templates
APPENDIX D: Reading List

Notes

Index

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