Networking Success Path
At CIBN Connect we don't make the assumption that everyone who comes along knows how to network profitably. After 15 years of experience and interviewing thousands of our Members we have discovered that networking is more of a journey than a destination. There are many things that can be learned on the journey and those who fully engage in the process will often add more than six figures to their bottom line through networking, learning to sell, and by becoming influencers. By interviewing and surveying our most successful Members over many years we have developed The Networking Success Path. We lead our Members through each stage and help them grow their businesses adding bottom line revenue each step of the way.
Jennifer Robertson
"The Networking Success Path has changed my life and my business. Who knew that networking and sales could be this easy and fun?"
Wendy Kraft
"Joining CIBN Connect took me on a journey of success. I started with the small things but I would not be where I am today without these tools and strategies."
The Journey To Your Success
Have you ever gone into a big shopping mall and found a large sign that says "YOU ARE HERE?" There are many entrances to a shopping mall and people come into them from different directions. They all experienced unique paths to get to the mall, and once they are inside they don't go through every store. Instead they pick their shopping experiences based off of their needs and desires.
In the same way business owners, entrepreneurs and professionals come to CIBN Connect from many paths. They are in different places in their business career. They have shopped heavily from some stores and ignored others not even looking inside to see if there was something in there to benefit from.
Some find us early in their journey. Others find us after years of experience. Many come in already enjoying various levels of success. A few are beaten up and weary from their travels. No matter how they enter into our gates, our Members rejoice upon discovering a new and simpler way to build their businesses and grow revenue.
CIBN Connect takes our Members down a clear pathway to business transformation. In some cases we help them to go back to basics and pick up the things they missed, or that they did not realize were important. In other cases we show them how to take the pieces that they already have and to put them into the correct order leading to faster profits and a steadier growth cycle.
Some Members decide that certain steps are not what they want right now and that is fine. They can come back for it later, or perhaps they will hire someone else to do it for them such as a VA. The good news is, your staff member, business partner, or spouse can attend in your place and learn the needed skill set without additional charge.
Some Members neatly enter the Building Stage and work through in an easy order. Others jump to the Presenting Stage or they want to track results in the Producing Stage, but then realize that without the 10,000 connections they won't reach the Influencer Stage. So they need to go back to the Add Social Stage and get their foundations in place before moving on.
There are no cutting corners on The Networking Success Path, but if we know where we are going and what we are trying to accomplish we can get their faster if we work together.
Build
Building a business can be tough when you are on your own. Entrepreneurs often struggle to find community, mentorship and answers to everyday problems in business. Everyone is trying to sell us marketing. What works? What doesn't? How do I represent myself to the world? Who is my target market? What does my avatar look like?
We are good at what we do, and we just wanted to get started doing it. Now we find out that we need to also be good at doing our bookkeeping, marketing our products and services, and selling as well. We are wearing so many hats, where do we start?
Our Building A Network solution takes 30 to 60 days on average:
Begin building relationships with other entrepreneurs who will support you
Build real friendships that go beyond "liking" into "knowing" and "trusting"
Identify those who could become collaborators who have the same target market. These people have clients who buy, and those clients can be shared
Create 25 new strategic connections
Find your first 3 real Collaborating Partners and start working on the steps to success in chapter 9 of SMART NETWORKING - The $150,000 Method
Watch the 7 short networking training videos
Add Social
Social media is no longer new, yet business owners are still struggling to add this component to their businesses. Often they lack the knowledge about what channels they should be using, best practices, how to convert to sales, how to automate and so much more. Yet, social media monopolizes our time and attention. We compete with every new shiny thing that hits the internet, and we get sucked into a vortex of activity that never seems to end, or pay off.
This is where CIBN Connect shines. Our Founder Kerry George has been a social media guru long before there were gurus. Her first business was social media marketing back in 2010 and way back then she realized that "Social Networking" was really networking, taken online. She mastered platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn and X and started training business owners to do the same.
Today we have a strong history of helping entrepreneurs find their way out of the chaos into successful strategies that produce results on all of the social media platforms. Really it is just about extending our network using a few good tools and solid processes.
We begin working on these things at The Speaker Level of membership. Members can move through the courses quickly, or they can take their time. One brick at a time we help you build the walls of your castle of legacy. You can do it!
Our Social solution:
Record your social media numbers so future growth can be tracked
Pick one channel to grow
Complete Social Media Boot Camp
Complete the 7 Day Challenge To Create 700 Pieces Of Reusable Content
Build your own simple 3 step strategy and implement it
Understand the 4 C's of online marketing
Learn how to fill a room for your own event
Present
We all want to get in front of that ideal room of people that is full of our targeted buyers. Or perhaps we want to give a sales presentation to the board of directors at a big company. What will happen if we are not practiced and polished in our presentation skills? Absolutely nothing. We will not land the sale.
Practice makes perfect, and we needs many hours of practice if we want to sell from the stage. Where do we get this practice? Sure we can pay to be in summits but many will disqualify us if we don't have the social following. Authors and speakers are often vetted and asked what their numbers are.
CIBN Connect offers our stage for our Speakers Level Members to practice their offers and refine their talks. We also have a Sales Pro level of membership to assist those who struggle in their ability to sell. After all, what is the point of getting leads if we can't close any of them. Business starts getting better when we start getting better at presenting our business to others.
Many want to start with the courses in the Speaker Level training and get some practice talking in front of others. It doesn't matter where you start, just start. Remember we are learning on the journey.
Presenting Our Solution:
Gain the confidence that you need to move your business forward
Eliminate the fear of public speaking and the emotions that sabotage
Master presentation skills in front of small groups first
Get valuable feedback from other members who have been where you are
Learn to do 15 minute and 25 minute presentations in small groups
Speak at a CIBN Connect online summit
Learn to do 90 minute webinars (If you want to)
Do Facebook Lives in the CIBN FB groups (If you want to)
Do an interview on the CIBN TV channel and showcase your business
Write an article for one of the CIBN Magazines
Produce
In this stage we are creating mechanisms to track production and implement them. Speaker Level Members often attend Quarter Launch in their first 90 days with CIBN Connect, but usually it is not until they have attended three times that they begin to gain traction. Why? Because small business owners are usually unaccustomed to building in quarterly increments and the first time they set goals that are 10 years into the future they are only guessing on their outcomes. Once they begin setting goals and using the techniques to accomplish them, then production becomes very effective.
In this stage we are examining systems of all kinds in our businesses. We learned how to add social media and automation in the Social Stage, but here in the Producing Stage we are tracking the outcomes and refining the strategies.
Sales are being counted at this level. If a Member has not yet taken the Sales Pro training, this is a good time to do so because improving our sales ratio will have a direct effect on the bottom line and this is part of tracking and scaling production. We can't train sales people to grow our businesses if we have not yet created a process to do so.
This is also the level where a business owner may want to consider the Excalibur MasterMind Program for more strategy focus.
Presenting our Production Solution:
Attend Quarter Launch for the third time and complete goal setting process
Add automations to your social media and customer communications
Record increase on social media channels
Make a plan for social media growth working towards the 10,000 goal
Make sure that the 4 C's of online marketing are being implemented
Measure sales results and tweak for improvement
Complete a Systems Analysis
Influence
It takes 10,000 online connections to move into the position of being an influencer. We cannot truly lead until we truly have followers. These do not happen by accident. There are simple and repeatable steps that need to be followed to create a situation where we are no longer screaming our message into an empty room. This is the stage where we could write a book and people will buy our book. This is where we can announce our event or our weekly meeting and people will line up to attend it without buying ads.
In this stage you are putting your finishing touches on your personal network and you are reaping the rewards of having followers. Your message is being proclaimed by your raving fans.
This is an appropriate time to add the multiplication strategies found in the Excalibur MasterMind Program.
These are the tasks for the Influencer:
Track the connections and followers on every social channel and continue in the strategies to increase those numbers
Add three new methods of increasing our online followers
Create and automate at least 1 communication strategy such as a blog, a magazine, a YouTube channel or a podcast.
Create at least two evergreen methods of making sales where advertising runs on it's own and makes more than what is being spent.
Set up at least two sources of ongoing repeatable income that supplement your business or your lifestyle
Multiply the strategies that work
Move into scaling your business
SMART NETWORKING - The $150,000 Method
Comes with every level of membership!
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Chrome Extension
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Video Training Portal
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Referral Tracking
Our Memberships According To The Networking Success Path
Where are you in the journey?
$27
Networking With
Basic Business
Instructions
Attend as many networking meetings that you want. We have mixers, lunch meetings, power hours, women's events, and more. There are more than 500 online meetings each year! $77/month value.
Meet the group Members in our FB groups and online portals.
Full access to the Networking Success Path Training videos $250 value.
Premium edition of the CIBN Chrome Extension for instant lead generation $75/month value.
All NETWORKING training videos are included.
$77
Speakers
Presentations With Business Training
All of the Networking Member benefits +
Be a speaker for CIBN Connect events. These can be the weekly networking events where members can do presentations as well as larger events.
All BUSINESS training videos in the CIBN Connect Video Portal for business training.
Quarter Launch 90 Day Goal Setting every three months $2000 value annually
Social Media Boot Camp $799 Value
Trigger Links
Go "live" weekly in any of the Facebook groups $99/MTH Value
PAY ANNUALLY AND RECEIVE ADDITIONAL BONUSES!
2 page spread in annual digital magazine
CIBN Connect will market 2 of your events or webinars to our global market through MeetUp 100,000 followers!
Guaranteed 3 times what you spent on membership in 12 months or free membership for the next year!
$177
Learning To
Sell Effectively With
Practice Sessions
All of the Speaker Member benefits +
Sales Pitch Training & Mentoring.
Infomercial Scripting, Training & Practice.
Perfect and practice your One-on-one with teammates to close more sales.
Develop a real follow-up procedure and work with a team to get essential feedback.
Create your goals, track your performance, and tweak your processes for maximum results.
Work with a weekly accountability team for greater results.
All MAX+ SALES training videos are included.
Darlene Petrie
"CIBN helped me to figure out my business journey. I had to restart and build something people wanted to by. I learned the tools to market myself and I learned how to be appealing to my customer base. This has completely revolutionized my retirement!"
Keith Uthe
"I started networking in the early days with CIBN when I was just starting my mortgage business. This was a great place to start out and today it continues to offer me viable tools services and relationships that no other network has."
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