How Do You Get Contacts When You’re Just Getting Started?
Dan Lok Show
Dan Lok
4.9 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
If you aren’t raised in a successful family with a lot of good contacts, is it even possible to win in business or in your career? Watch this episode now, as Dan Lok will break down his best tips and strategies to get contacts when you’re just getting started regardless if you’re an entrepreneur, service provider, or freelancer.
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| 0:00.0 | If you're just getting started in your career or in business, chances are you won't have any contacts. |
| 0:20.0 | Unless you are born from a wealthy family, then you might have or in business, chances are you won't have any context. |
| 0:21.6 | Unless you are born from a wealthy family, |
| 0:24.3 | then you might have some contacts. |
| 0:26.1 | But for most of us, we don't have any context with myself. |
| 0:29.7 | When I immigrated to North America, |
| 0:32.0 | I didn't know anybody, I had no context. |
| 0:34.5 | I couldn't speak the language. |
| 0:36.0 | So if that's the case, one of the things I want to |
| 0:38.9 | teach you is to rephrase and reframe from thinking of, oh, I don't have any context. Context is not |
| 0:46.1 | something that you have. Context is something you go fucking get. You got to go get them. |
| 0:52.8 | Right? If you don't have it, no good. It's just, well, I don't have any context. You got to go get them. Right? If you don't have it, no good. It's just, well, I don't have any |
| 0:56.4 | context. You got to go get it. If you move to a new city, you don't know anybody. Go to local |
| 1:02.9 | chamber of commerce, right? There are a lot of business people there. Go there, meet with people, |
| 1:08.6 | mingle with people. That's very good. Now, usually the qualities, by the way, are not super good, |
| 1:13.3 | that's okay. |
| 1:14.6 | You start somewhere. |
| 1:15.7 | You're not gonna have the context |
| 1:17.6 | that like what I have today overnight |
| 1:19.7 | told me how many years. |
| 1:21.8 | Start somewhere. |
| 1:22.8 | What else? |
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