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Most people don’t have a network. They have a list. Here’s what that actually costs. He had over 30,000 connections on LinkedIn. He was broke.
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Networking Strategy
March 15, 2026 • 7 min read
Most B2B business owners have been told the same lie: show up, shake hands, hand out cards. The problem isn’t your effort. It’s that everything you’ve been taught about networking was designed for B2C, not B2B.
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