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Have you ever found you only get the benefit of making an effort with networking many years later?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About 5 years ago, the foreign rights manager at my London publisher mentioned I should meet their counterpart in China next time I was there. I said I’d try. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

About 6 months later, I was in Beijing to give a motivational speech, so I got in touch and we had a coffee. I told them about my latest book (Walking Home From Mongolia), and they said they’d ask around the Chinese publishers to see if anyone was interested in translating it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About a year later – I heard they had found someone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A year after that, it got published in Chinese – but I never saw the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then last week, almost 5 years after the initial conversation in London, I suddenly received 5 copies of the Chinese edition in the post. That made me very happy! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Walking Home from Mongolia, Chinese edition<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sometimes, our efforts with networking and building important new work relationships are not rewarded for a long time – but then, much later, they are, and that makes it very worthwhile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you relate to this? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

#keynotespeakers<\/a> #speaker<\/a> #collaboration<\/a>
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