How Much Time Should You Spend Networking?
People who say that networking played a role in their success spent an average of 6 1/2 hours a week networking and had half of their clients from their networking time. However, people who did not invest as much time networking also did not report as much reward.
Therefore, spend about 8-10 hours per week networking and do the right things to build the relationships first when networking.
Takeaway – Work on the relationship first then business.
Getting to that 8-10 hours weekly will require a bit of restructuring of my schedule, but I see it as well worth it. And a lot more fun than sitting behind my computer that same time!