There are some seats at the table that you have to be invited to rather than create yourself
This is known as vertical networking. For example, Esther would not have been able to get her audience with the king and save her people if she hadn’t first gotten on his radar as described in Esther 5:1-2:
“Now it happened on the third day [of her fast] that Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king’s palace, across from the king’s house, while the king sat on his royal throne... So it was, when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, that she found favour in his sight, and… Esther went near [to speak to him]”
But how do we get close enough to the influencers within our industries to get on their radars in this new digital age?
How do we get to their inner courts, so to speak?
By being an asset to them and/or they’re community through: