An internationally known public speaker, entrepreneur, and marketing executive shares practical, up-to-date tips for mastering the skills of networking. Networking doesn’t have to be that frenzied old-school game of calendars packed with stuffy power lunches and sterile evenings at community business gatherings. We’ve entered a new era, one in which shifting cultural values and the explosion of digital technology enable us to network in vastly more efficient, more focused, and more enjoyable ways. A fresh take on How to Win Friends and Influence People, Your Network Is Your Net Worth is an entertaining, straightforward guide filled with revealing case studies, hands-on advice, and innovative strategies for building your network. Written by sought-after speaker, entrepreneur, and marketing executive Porter Gale, with a foreword by Apple evangelist and bestselling author Guy Kawasaki, this book shows you how to establish, expand, and nurture your connections both online and off. New ways to network are popping up every day—and Gale tells you how to make the most of them—but even traditional networking opportunities are not the same animals that they once were, and we need to shift our attitudes and approaches accordingly. Networking has evolved from a transactional game to a transformational process. Whereas once it was about power plays, now it’s about charting your own course, following your passions, and making meaningful connections, which in turn increase your happiness and productivity. In addition to chronicling her own rise from an ad agency intern to an in-demand consultant, Gale also shares the inspiring stories of so many others who live by this networking model: a military wife who connects with social media communities while her husband is deployed overseas, a young woman blog-ger battling leukemia, a dyslexic politician who wins elections by telling stories, and the CEO of a Major League Baseball team who once made a phone call that changed the course of his life. When you focus on your passions and reorganize your networking around your values and beliefs, you will discover the kind of lasting relationships, personal transformation, and, ultimately, tangible wealth that are the foundation for happiness and success. With a message both timely and important, Your Network Is Your Net Worth is the definitive handbook to Networking 2.0. Entrepreneur Gale goes beyond the male-female divide to describe how networks transform lives—but only if the individual is ready and available. Attitude comes first. As with most do-it-yourself-change tomes, an assessment begins the process (identifying barriers and goals), followed by the creation of one’s mission statement, or what Gale calls the funnel test, which means defining three critical focuses. In this era it is no surprise that values become her next step: that is, finding and connecting and learning from friends, family, and communities who share similar outlooks and objectives. Creativity, her third and final phase, is realized through storytelling and expertise. Exercises that make these phases more tangible, from a time-waste audit to a list of barriers, are featured in each chapter, as are anecdotes of individuals who have “broken through.” A very New Age and complicated guide to establishing your best self. --Barbara Jacobs "A healthy reminder about the relatively simple things professionals can do to stimulate their motivational processes and achieve even greater success in today’s competitive marketplace. A useful guidebook for those desiring success through shrewd networking." ― Kirkus Reviews “This book isn’t a rehash of stuffy, old-world networking ideas. It’s a primer and storybook, which will inspire you with amazing stories of well-known business icons and everyday people who have transformed their lives through networking.” -- Guy Kawasaki, Author of Enchantment and former chief evangelist of Apple “Want to bring value to the people you connect? With currency, credibility and unvarnished honesty Porter creates a brilliant model of networking for a meaningful purpose. Relating stories of personal challenge while driving efforts at some of the world’s most valuable brands she derives and shares hard-earned tools that anybody can put to work.” -- Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith, authors of The Dragonfly Effect “In a time when we all need to learn how to unlock our human potential and make meaningful connections, Porter masterfully articulates the path ways, this is a must have read.” -- David Mayer de Rothschild, British Adventurer/Environmentalist and Author "Porter's book hits the nail on the head. Be authentic, follow your passions, nurture relationships and use technology to improve and accelerate your connections. This is a great read with insightful stories and lots of practical tips. Not to mention Porter has executed this not just talked about it." -- Gary Vaynerchuk, author of Crush It and The Thank You Economy, Found