Once you have a home business going, you still have the most important job of all to accomplish. The job of building your network of customers and/or clients. Without a network of contacts, you will not have any reason to have a business, will you? It doesn’t matter what kind of business you have chosen because in every business, whether it’s a product or service, there is a need for customers/clients. There is no business, online or off, that can survive without the benefit of networking. Even if you are a service provider of a creative nature, you need to network to assure that you will constantly have those who are interested in buying what you create.
For some people, the idea of networking conjures up the idea of going door to door or making phone calls to people they don’t know. But that is not the idea at all. In fact, the best networking tool is providing good service so that your customers will refer others to your business. Word of mouth is always a better sales tool than any other type of networking that you can do. Of course, even though referrals are your most effective network tool, that doesn’t mean that it is or should be your...