{"id":57846,"date":"2014-05-23T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/renewsblog\/?p=57846"},"modified":"2021-03-16T10:19:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T16:19:47","slug":"2014-05-23-increase-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/2014-05-23-increase-influence","title":{"rendered":"One Small Simple Step To Growing Your Network and Increasing Your Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome back,<\/em><\/p>\n

Everyone has to eat.<\/p>\n

One of the best things I did when I started my investing career was ask two active<\/em> local real estate investors out to lunch to get to know each other and chit-chat.<\/p>\n

I did not only ask this from these two investors but continued taking different investors and real estate professionals out throughout my first year investing. By year’s end I closely knew over twenty active investors in my market.<\/p>\n

The goal of these lunches is\u00a0not to simply “pick brains” and ask questions. Professionals do want to have their valuable time and brains’ picked for a hour by some new investor.<\/p>\n

Instead go out with the intent to make a friend, learn about them, and ideally help these other investors in some manner.<\/p>\n

The end goal that you make a friend.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The reason for this is because you can always call a friend for help or guidance later.<\/p>\n

Helpful Tips: <\/strong><\/h2>\n
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  • Simple is good. Unless they object a Wendy’s Restaurant, Chili’s Restaurant, or any local favorite of yours will work. Do not aim to impress anyone.<\/li>\n
  • As you are leaving ask if you may call them should you have any questions or concerned moving forward.<\/li>\n
  • Understand what they do and what deals they are looking for.<\/li>\n
  • Understand their family life and how they got into business.<\/li>\n
  • Ask what they would advise you do at this point in your career.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Your challenge: <\/strong>Ask 1 person you admire and respect (or have been wanting to get to know) out for lunch sometime this week when they are free. Set a time, date, and location.<\/p>\n

    Then come back and leave the story of your experience and the benefits it brought and leave it in the comments.<\/p>\n

    Love what you do daily,<\/p>\n

    John Fedro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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