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and now three, two three two one here we go All right, Clay.

We're just staying in this topic of networking right here,

but we're going to focus on organizing your contacts,

taking business cards and turning them into business deals.

And I'm guessing that many entrepreneurs, all entrepreneurs actually already,

right? They're always got their business card right there.

They're throwing them out all the time, throwing out those business cards,

but when they receive them, if you don't, you know, like have a specific idea of how you're going to contact that person and what you could, you know, connect with them about, you often lose track of that, and those don't always translate into business deals.

So this is something that you think is going to be worth our time.

I would say for most American entrepreneurs, most entrepreneurs throughout the world.

Networking is a complete waste of time because they're not actually turning relationships into value.

I mean think about this, if you meet somebody at at lunch he might be a great person or

she might be a great person we all have a very limited resource a very

limited amount of time so if you're taking their time and you're not offering them value and you're not offering

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