I looked at the Conspire dashboard in front of me. My stomach dropped.I didn’t know what to do, even with all this power at my fingertips.
Conspire is a tool that allows you to understand your network by gathering the connections that people have to each other. It in turn shows you the relationships you have with each of those people, and the relationship they have with the people around them. This can then be used to connect to people you can deliver value to, or help you connect other people to other people to help partnerships. This is a great tool to understand your network.
Conspire also takes a look at your email and gives you stats, such as open and response rate. You can get to know about yourself when you look at the numbers. My response rate shocked me – and I instantly recognized it may mean I subscribe to too many newsletters. It allows you to measure just how effective you are at email.
Information is powerful. Anything that is powerful, can cripple you. My fear came from a complete lack of preparation. I had all of this available and I didn’t have a goal or a list of people at hand. It reminded me that tools don’t solve anything, but only give you another avenue to get to your solution.
I am going to spend some time this week coming up with a list of people I want to connect with. Also, I am going to spend some time figuring out my connection to those people, and how to give value. I don’t want to be a leech.I want to know and be valuable to the people on that list, as well as everyone connected to it. We all can bring something to the table.
I shall call it the “HERO LIST”, because if it isn’t campy and fun, why do it? =)
From the desk of Adam Thomas 