Networking secrets

"You can only rely on people who are able to rely on you."

The question then is: What do people rely on you for? In other words, what is the one thing you do which you do MUCH BETTER than other people?

It can also be something you KNOW, which few other people know.

This is the one question that is often missing in articles or books about networking.

Indeed, if a person doesn't know what he or she can offer to the world, then there's no point showing up at networking events just to get other people's business cards.

Networking is about sharing the best that we have, not about collecting business cards or filling up a database with names.