Netcaring

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Your most ideal connections are your niche mates: same audience, similar service. If there’s friendship, they can refer overflow clients to you... and you to them.  You can also learn the most from them because their business (and marketing) lessons are applicable to yours too. You can perhaps share resources as well. There are no competitors. There are only niche mates who have the potential to become ideal connections. Unfortunately, not everyone is so open-hearted or abundance-minded…  so please spread the word about this concept! A second tier (still very good) type of niche mate is someone with:  either (1) the same audience and different service  or (2) same service, different audience.  You are professionally “adjacent” to one another, therefore can also refer clients or opportunities to each other. Comment below… describe a nichemate (without using their name) – what work do they do, and for what audience?

New perspective of how to start seeing the examples of good/bad netcaring throughout your week... Learning from others’ comments in this course... Practicing with each other.

Watch the video for a simple plan to use this module :)

One of the simplest, least-done things on social media. I myself need to lean into this a lot more. It’s the greatest payment you can make to them online without paying them any money. Most of us get very little engagement on social media – it’s just statistics. When you share their post, it is like for them an oasis in a large desert of silence and perceived rejection. Be sure to tag them in the post, so they also get notifications of replies. Worry less about the “cost” of each post in terms of you having limited spots each week to post things… the Algorithm will take care of it. The ones more interesting will be picked up, and less interesting will fade.

These are rich sources of colleagues who are actively growing and meeting many other people. Most course comments don’t get replies. You can be one of the few. What you get to practice in re: netcaring: Deep listening to understand more perspectives and be more able to truly connect. Deep encouragement: say what you specifically appreciate about their energy, words, their efforts. Share your own related vulnerability about the course topic. Connected commenting: aim to be more specific about what they said, and less generic in your response. It’s a practice of being an excellent commenter. Look for ways to connect with them 1-1 for co-working, co-learning. Most course participants don’t reach out 1-1 to offer encouragement, accountability, mutual coaching about the course’s topics. By being one of the engaged commenters – and especially, repliers to comments – you get to know the themes of what the students are most engaged with, and confused about.  Reach out to the instructor in genuine appreciation and support: That you have seen some common themes in your review of student comments, and they are…  That you’d be happy to be a success story for the course.