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Business Contacts are like fruit

[Jan 06, 2010]

They are a priceless asset and an essential part of a healthy business lifestyle. However… if they grow stale… the taste in your mouth goes sour. Try to not let your business contacts go stale.

All one needs to do is simply: stay in touch. 

Ensure you contact them every couple of months at a minimum. You can and should ask how they are doing. Also consider sharing something you are excited about.

But with hundreds of business contacts, won’t this be daunting and tough to manage?

I believe that an essential piece to managing your business network is with an effective and flexible web-based CRM. There are dozens to choose from: Salesforce, Highrise and my favorite BatchBook.

Within BatchBook for example – I have built custom reporting (see image below for my developed report criteria), which can show me whom of my business contacts I have not communicated with during a specified timeframe (ex. over a month).
Business contacts are of priceless asset, don’t let your network dry up. If you found this helpful or would like to chat more about this topic, feel free to contact me at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)