{"id":10995,"date":"2021-04-05T09:36:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T15:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/?p=10995"},"modified":"2021-04-05T09:36:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T15:36:11","slug":"9-tips-to-turn-networking-contacts-into-meaningful-relationships-from-a-serial-connector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/9-tips-to-turn-networking-contacts-into-meaningful-relationships-from-a-serial-connector\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Tips to Turn Networking Contacts Into Meaningful Relationships, From a Serial Connector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themuse.com\/author\/susan-mcpherson-1\">Susan McPherson<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"367\" data-attachment-id=\"10996\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/9-tips-to-turn-networking-contacts-into-meaningful-relationships-from-a-serial-connector\/gett\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/files\/2021\/04\/gett.png?fit=879%2C461&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"879,461\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"gett\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/files\/2021\/04\/gett.png?fit=300%2C157&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/files\/2021\/04\/gett.png?fit=700%2C367&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/files\/2021\/04\/gett.png?resize=700%2C367&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/files\/2021\/04\/gett.png?w=879&amp;ssl=1 879w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/files\/2021\/04\/gett.png?resize=300%2C157&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/files\/2021\/04\/gett.png?resize=768%2C403&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal in any meaningful relationship is to give it depth. That\u2019s what my book,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thelostartofconnecting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Lost Art of Connecting: The Gather, Ask, Do Method for Building Meaningful Business Relationships<\/em><\/a>, is all about. Of course, not every networking contact has to become a deep relationship: We have a finite amount of time, energy, and resources. But when there\u2019s potential to help each other in business and in life, it\u2019s worthwhile to take the relationship deeper. And what people so often ask me is: How? How do you transform a relationship from the superficial to the meaningful without feeling awkward or stiff?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themuse.com\/advice\/networking-relationship-building-susan-mcpherson?sc_src=email_1081784&amp;sc_lid=77976437&amp;sc_uid=dw67sgD3xt&amp;sc_llid=225331&amp;sc_eh=8e0316a003f2d38e1&amp;utm_source=emarsys&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=daily_20210405_90Day_1081784&amp;utm_content=Daily+Newsletter&amp;utm_term=_&amp;uid=789339376\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.themuse.com\/advice\/networking-relationship-building-susan-mcpherson?sc_src=email_1081784&amp;sc_lid=77976437&amp;sc_uid=dw67sgD3xt&amp;sc_llid=225331&amp;sc_eh=8e0316a003f2d38e1&amp;utm_source=emarsys&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=daily_20210405_90Day_1081784&amp;utm_content=Daily+Newsletter&amp;utm_term=_&amp;uid=789339376\">Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Susan McPherson The goal in any meaningful relationship is to give it depth. That\u2019s what my book,\u00a0The Lost Art of Connecting: The Gather, Ask, Do Method for Building Meaningful Business Relationships, is all about. Of course, not every networking contact has to become a deep relationship: We have a finite amount of time, energy,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1436,"featured_media":368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[253,18],"class_list":["post-10995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-job-info-advice","category-uncategorized","tag-advice-for-new-professionals","tag-networking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/files\/2016\/03\/The-Muse-logo.png?fit=203%2C118&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79l8e-2Rl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10997,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10995\/revisions\/10997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}