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The importance of the network for an entrepreneur

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Entrepreneurship consists of creating an activity, offering a service and/or a product. It is important to have a network of entrepreneurs at your side, the idea being to facilitate the exchange of contacts and especially business.

Creating a network of entrepreneurs

When you’re starting out, it’s sometimes useful to have good contacts, especially when you’re offering a product or service for professionals. But not only that, but the network can also help you find good contacts to develop your business, or find suppliers. It is a major asset for locally-based companies, it is essential to have discussions with other traders, other professionals, to share the experience but also to benefit from the visions of other entrepreneurs.

A network is therefore a group of entrepreneurs practicing a similar or completely opposite activity to its own. The idea is to exchange business cards, to exchange good addresses to allow each one to develop. It is for example the case when one needs a website or when one is looking for a particular skill. The idea is therefore to open up to other people while keeping a certain distance from one’s activity, everyone is free to define the limit in terms of networking.

Take advantage of experiences, make yourself known

There are business clubs that offer entrepreneurs a membership to create a community and to share business, personal network, or knowledge to improve the daily life of everyone. They can also be evenings or events between professionals, trade shows, meals, or other organizations that facilitate exchanges. Sometimes even chambers of commerce organize speed meetings between entrepreneurs.

Every entrepreneur must have a network, there are necessarily people with whom one can easily create an interaction and others with whom the current does not flow. This is relatively frequent and above all normal, the idea is to have people around you with whom you can exchange and share with confidence, moments of doubt as well as genius ideas. To start an activity, it allows you to make yourself known in the network and especially to work on your notoriety because when you need a company in a very specific field, it is towards your company that you will turn.

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