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Welcome back to Build Your Network with Travis Chappel. This episode features Nick Hughes, a successful entrepreneur with business achievements in ecommerce, social media, digital payments and technology startups. In addition to creating the growing entrepreneurial network Founders Live, Nick stays busy as an advisor to numerous startups and occasionally takes positions in sales or business development roles if needed. He’s also a cofounder Callin’It, a cool new fan engagement and predictions app for sports fans. As a sought after adviser, entrepreneurial speaker and writer with guest appearances on popular technology and media outlets, Nick enjoys helping others discover their unique entrepreneurial path. Today he shares how he does it all through networking.
This is what Travis and Nick cover in this episode:
- What Founders Live is and how you can participate
- Why Nick chose the networking industry to get into and how following his passion and strengths led to the founding of this company
- The most difficult part running a large, global community of entrepreneurs
- Why you need to look at what makes you unique and different, and what brings people back, when building community
- The top three reasons Nick suggests going to events in your local community
- The best way to initiate conversations with people
- Why Nick believes that the more people you know the more opportunities you will have
- How saying yes to a random networking event led Nick to meet his business coach, who is a huge part of the success of Founders Live
- How lost Nick would be if he hadn’t made those connections that helped him create his focused vision for his company
- A great tip for introducing yourself at networking events if you are in transition, or between jobs
- The mistake many people make in not having a structure or frequency to their networking, either online or in their local community
- The places online that Nick cultivates relationships
- Why relationships are like bank accounts and you need to treat it like a savings account not a checking account
- Nick’s service based approach to life and business
- Why being proactive about introducing people is a huge way to add value in any relationship
- The reason you don’t want to corner people at networking events and the skill you need to learn to avoid it
- Nick’s advice for connecting and networking in online communities
- The most interesting and influential person Nick has been able to meet through networking
- The value of starting an event to drastically change your network and the trajectory of your career
Links and recommended resources:
- The Reboot Podcast by Jerry Colonna
- The Misfit Entrepreneur Podcast by Dave Lukas
- Tony Shae, founder of Zappos
How to find Nick Hughes:
The best place to find him is of course on FoundersLive.com or alternatively, reach out to him on LinkedIn
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