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The Playbook With David Meltzer

How Can I Find the Right People to Help Me Break Into an Industry | #AskDavidMeltzer 16

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

People always make the excuse that they don't know anyone that can help them break into their industry of choice, but how many of them are consistently asking, "Do you know anyone that can help me?" Most people have over 1,00 people in their network, so by simply asking one person a day if they know anyone that can help you, you can expand your network by over 30,000 people a month. If you want me to answer your question on the podcast, tweet me @davidmeltzer, or email me a video at [email protected] of you asking me a question and I will answer it for a future episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Say you're trying to find them into it, but when it comes to the field you're

0:03.6

trying to be like me, I want to make you. You're looking at something and you want to be somewhere,

0:06.8

but right now you might not have the accessibility it is to just contact those people.

0:15.2

Good. That's the biggest excuse everyone tells me. Yes,

0:18.5

sure Dave, because you have access to everyone. Remember this question, do you know anyone that

0:23.1

could help me? So you might not know them and have access to them, right? But like just today,

0:28.4

you would be the music industry. I got a friend. He's TI's partner, right? I got

0:33.6

Marcus Thomas in New York. You don't know any of those guys, but guess who does?

0:39.2

Right. And what do you have to ask? Dave, do you know anyone that can help me? All right,

0:45.2

Cameron, what do you want? Yeah, let me let me introduce you. You want to sacrifice for him?

0:51.2

I'm doing them in favor. I'll call them. Are you willing to sacrifice for them? You really want

0:55.1

this? Right? Right? So then work for free, sleep in your car, sleep on your mom's couch.

1:01.8

Right? Make me look good, but I'll hook you up. I ain't little John's my friend. I'll call him.

1:07.6

Tell me what kind of music you want to be. You want to be a producer? You want to do

1:11.2

boards? You want to do management? I don't know. What do you want to do in music? Let me find

1:15.5

that guy for me. And maybe I don't know anyone. But guess what? I know Brian and Brian knows all those

1:22.4

guys. I ask for help all the time. It's not who you know. It's who is the gatekeeper that may know.

1:30.1

And the more people, watch this as an example. Devon, do you know anyone in the music industry?

1:37.7

You do. Would you mind making an introduction for me? But yeah, most people are like,

1:42.4

can. Fuck, dude. I don't have any access. None of them look like anybody I know in the music

1:48.6

industry. None of them look like, except for him, maybe, that they're musicians. But we all have

1:54.0

killer contacts. I mean, we listed them out. Think about what access you have. Yeah.

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