Now that you’re climbing out of your skin with excitement about prospecting, remember two things about leveraging your network:
1. Lead with a reciprocal offer of help – your friends will be more open to helping you if you gesture to help them.
2. Be prepared to guide your friend with specifics. Write a script they can send to their friend; they can edit it according to taste, but you’ll make it easier for them to help you.

Enlisting your friends to help you is another form of inside sales – you need to get your friends excited about your offering so they can feel engaged in connecting you to a new prospect. After briefly describing your value prop and reasons to reach their friend, your friend is more apt to steer you in the right direction. Sometimes, you might hear, "Oh, now that I know what you guys really do, you need to talk to Bob, not Cindy…."

Good. That’s how it works. Work it.

And, of course, you are offering your network and intro abilities back to your BFF as a reciprocal favor.