Build Business Relationships to Grow Your LNC Business

Use these business relationship tips to help you grow your LNC business. If you’re already established in your LNC business, or just beginning, you encounter many types of business relationships on a regular basis.  

Examples of your business relationships:

• Vendors or partners
• Your team 
• Prospective clients
• Your local community 

As a matter of fact, it’s nearly impossible to run any kind of profitable business without forming a variety of relationships.

 

Tips to Build Business Relationships

Always Be Authentic

You’ve heard the phrase, “Fake it till you make it”. Some believe that you need to replicate a certain style or mindset before you reach that level of success. I’m not a fan of applying that to business relationships. Attorneys can spot LNCs who are bluffing.

People want to connect with you. They want and need to relate to and trust you on a personal level so that you become more real to them. If you are authentic with your image and what you post, they in turn will give you their trust.

If you are caught in a lie in a conversation or on social media, your image can come crashing down. Instead of being trustworthy, you’ll have a reputation as being a fake. If you want to be trustworthy, earn that trust by building your relationships based on integrity and honesty.

 

Listen Carefully

When building these relationships, remember that you are to maintain your integrity at all times. Although you ultimately want people to hire you, new clients will be cautious until they get to know you. 

Show an interest in THEIR law practice and them. Once you ask one question, people naturally want to keep talking, especially if they are passionate about their legal practice. 

While at an event, listen to them speak, tuck away interesting nuggets for a later time, and remember to send a follow-up email the next business day, simply commenting on how nice it was to meet them. At the next event, make a point of acknowledging them and start a new conversation.

Listening is an essential skill when it comes to business relationships as well as creating loyal clients.

 

Share About Yourself

This does not mean sharing too much personal information. Instead, share your knowledge, experience, and anything that will be of value to your audience. 

Build business relationships authentically and you will find your LNC business growing. You won’t regret having an impeccable reputation. After all, there is no such thing as having too much integrity.

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Pat Iyer is president of The Pat Iyer Group, which develops resources to assist LNCs in obtaining more clients, making more money, and achieving their business goals and dreams.

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