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If the lifeblood of business is relationships, how can an introvert succeed in business?
Being introverted doesn’t mean being weak at creating, nourishing, and sustaining relationships; being introverted just means not radiating a desire to interact with others in certain contexts. A more introverted person may initially shy away from sales and blogging, but there is more than one way to skin a cat (though I must say, that’s quite a saying when you reflect on it. What possessed people to think about skinning a cat, anyway!?), and “introverted” and “extraverted” are not pure categories but rather social constructions.
Even with the internet’s constraints, and most certainly in spite of the deafening voices out there insisting that social medium X or Web 2.0 technique Y is “what everybody’s doing,” there must be ways of building and enjoying two-way relationships online that the introvert-leaning type can excel in.
What are they? What are the tools of choice, or the “modes of choice” while using the tools available?
Suggestions and observations welcome from extraverts and introverts welcome!