011: Collaboration Currency

Have you ever been frustrated by not knowing how to attract a steady stream of ideal clients and opportunities? Or maybe you’ve reached a point where you question whether entrepreneurship is really for you?
These dilemmas are typical for business owners who get stuck in their own minds. They only see things based on their own beliefs and paradigms and they fail to access the level of creativity their business needs.
In this episode of The Next Level Influence Show, Melanie Benson and Samantha Riley talk about how your competition can be your top source of unlimited opportunities. And to do this, you need to do one thing - strengthen your collaboration currency. 
Here are some of the highlights of this episode:
How to activate collaboration currency (01:35)The "Oprah Effect" and how it accelerates access to new markets (04:05)Why podcasting is a powerful way to establish partnerships (13:25)Three common mistakes that take collaborations down the wrong path (20:33)
Quotes:
"You can create your own economy by turning on and activating collaborations." -Melanie Benson
"Collaborating with people who already served your ideal audience, whether it's a competitor or a colleague, speeds up your time into new markets because they've cultivated that know, like and trust factor." -Melanie Benson
"Collaborations are like a marathon, and setting them up really well helps them last for a long time." -Samantha Riley
"Think of people as collaboration partners, not competitors. Because thinking that everyone is your competitor can contract the number of people you have access to." -Samantha Riley

Melanie Benson, host of Amplify Your Success PodcastInstagramFacebookTwitterLinkedIn Samantha Riley, host of Influence by Design PodcastInstagramFacebookTwitterLinkedIn Produced by Your Podcast Concierge