Network Infiltration

by Simon Black · View Comments

As promised, I published my “Network Infiltration Black Paper” late Friday afternoon; I had spent all week working on this free report designed to teach anyone how to build contacts, gain influence, and infiltrate any exclusive network.

Unfortunately, I found out on Monday that, after I released the paper, the volume of people simultaneously trying to download it temporarily crashed my Ireland-based web server over the weekend.

Problem solved. If you didn’t get a chance to download it and read it over the weekend because of the website issue, click here to get your personal copy (or go to http://sovereignman.com/Network%20Infiltration.pdf)

No matter what constraints may govern your personal situation, I believe you will find the information valuable, whether you are an employee working your way up the corporate ladder, an entrepreneur seeking new funding, a lonely single searching for a companion, an investor looking for a great opportunity, or a new expatriate trying to meet local insiders.

In the world where ‘who you know’ is more important than ‘what you know,’ you’re either someone with great contacts, or you’re someone who wonders how the other guy has such great contacts.

To be clear, while the Network Infiltration Black Paper won’t cost you a single penny, the extraordinary benefits contained in the book are absolutely NOT free.  You have to be willing to work at it. You have to be willing to take action.

As Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz once pondered, “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act. Action will delineate and define you.”

This Black Paper will help you do that– I kept it fairly short at only 15 pages, so it is concise and actionable.  As I have written before, I think this theme of building contacts and infiltrating networks is very important for anyone looking to internationalize themselves, or simply become more successful at home.

I plan on sticking with this theme for the next few days to further illustrate some of the concepts I wrote about in the paper– finding the open door, differentiation, adding value, etc.  Give it a read, and if you have any questions or feedback, you can post a comment or send an email to infiltration@sovereignman.com.

So far I’ve received some great questions, and as I mentioned on Friday, I would like to hold a free, interactive conference call next week where I can answer your questions live and explain these concepts further.

Let me know if you are interested in attending the conference call by sending me your questions and feedback in advance.

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  • Rick Govern
    Simon:
    Regarding the long dated silver ETF calls you mentioned today (Dec 18): are these at the money or out of the money calls. I looked at the LEAP options of Jan 2011.
    Thanks,
    RG
  • Yury
    Hola!

    Como estas?

    I would be interested in that conference call.

    Cheers,
    Yury
  • Juliana
    Simon, I am currently working with a young African who is our problem-solving business consultant in Tanzania. He keeps telling me how much I am teaching him! I've had trouble figuring out just what it is that I am teaching him, but I saw something in your paper that gave me a clue - I'm a node for him. I, myself, am a very tiny node. But for him and his young and very talented life, I guess I'm a pretty big node at the moment. Thank you for reminding me to add value to his and to the lives of everyone else I respect. And yes, please, I would like to be part of the conference.
  • David
    I'm very interested in the conference call you're planning.

    Quick question...did you intend for the document to not be printed? (because I can't - it appears to have a font that I can not print and I can't seem to rectify it because the file uses numerous security features) Maybe I'm the only one to have this problem (I know...who prints things anymore), but if you have a form of the paper using more traditionally available fonts, I would appreciate a link... Thank you.
  • Yuri Lee
    Hi Simon,

    I live in the French Concession area of Shanghai, if you ever come across the bridge from Pudong, please let me know.

    Best wishes,

    Yuri
  • Me
    It's interesting that the saying is "Who you know not what you know". What is interesting is that it is rarely followed up with the obvious statement that what you know stems from who you know.
    Sometimes it is what you find out or know that proves valuable. i.e what you know. However this most often comes to us from a "who you know".

    Knowing a lot of people is not the answer of course. Knowing thousands of unintelligent people will not help you a bit but knowing the right people will. This brings up another saying, namely "Quality not quantity".

    Very interested in joining a call.
    Question for you Simon is how best to separate the wheat from the chaff?
  • ronnie flormata
    I really always believe that "whom you know" counts a greater degree than "What you know". It applies to me in my business dealings and the rewards are better. Your black paper is a great guidance book and can be integrated to my own experiences. It would also be nice if you can drop by Manila and look at the situation. Its similar to Panama or Urugauay.
    Many thanks!
  • Mark
    Excellent Black Paper Simon (I remember reading about Riyku in the "48 Laws of Power" - a must read for anyone on this path).

    My question stems from the following quotes:

    "If you're trying to break into a network of successful people it's very useful to have some successes under your belt...it's to your advantage to be equally successful"

    Presumably, members of any given Network have varying degrees of success. However, if I know a main member is worth over $100 million, should one even try to "infiltrate" that particular network until they can demonstrate success in the $10 million+ range at the very least?

    Any thoughts in this regard would be great.

    Thanks Simon
  • RICH Novak
    Simon Black: I am on a quest and I can NOT, will NOT, rest until I have helped each and every deserving individual relocate and invest in the Republic of Panama.

    Please advise me of how we, repeat we can achieve this lofty goal!

    Thank YOU!
  • Learned a lot, would like to learn more. Like to listen in on conference call.
  • I would like to attend the conference. As I mentioned in the email my question is 1. How do you provide value to people who virtually have "everything". 2. What are some of the things that you might need which would help you make more money or enhance the quality of your life.

    Thanks for a great paper.
  • Wendy
    Agree 100 percent, Panama is a great place to make contacts. I lived there for a couple of years, and since it´s a small country, my son went to school with the President´s son, I had dinner at the US and British Ambassadors' houses, and met tons of peope in industry who have continued to move all over the world. It´d be great to hear more on what people are doing internationally working and investing on a conference call. My best bet now is to work where I´m living to get residency, but haven´t decided on what to do, although I am building a network!
  • R. Carroll
    Great stuff. I'd love to join the conference call.
  • Tom
    I read your "black" paper last week. Intuitively on some level I feel like I already knew this stuff all along. But to have it spelled out in such a concise form is invaluable. I am already putting some of it to work as of today. Thank you. I would be interested in a conference call.
  • Very interested in attending the call. Best networking with HNW individuals and C-suite I have ever seen.
  • John F. Page
    I would like a conference call very much. I will be at La Estancia de Cafayate probably meeting the most interesting people on my wave length tuesday until Nov. 4th. I enjoy your two pages of meat every day completely; also your Black Paper. Every one I have put on The Sovereign Man is taken with it. I love that it is all meat and not ten pages of nothing and one paragraph of knowledge.

    John
  • John
    Hi, no questions as yet, if you do hold a conference call, I would like to listen and learn, let me know if you do and I'll call in, thanks
  • Simon, it is interesting that you started your paper with "I dislike talking about myself". I recently finished 2 other books that said that very same thing, one by Ayn Rand, and one by Laura Knight-Jadczyk, and now in all 3 cases that standard disclosure was followed by the very best of content!

    You prefaced that with "But given the numerous requests I receive ... to write about my own experiences...". I think that is interesting, that you are yielding to our prodding. In my opinion, it agrees with a theory of mine, that the world is headed towards transparency, and that the international man of mystery is in the slow process of being replaced with the international man of transparency. Heck, my mom had to leave Germany for being shunned for having a child out of wedlock... the world has already come a long way.

    In any case, much thanks for opening up and writing a fine paper. It all looks actionable to me.

    Identifying the right network sounds like the key to the rest. As you say, do it carefully, and make sure they share your own interests. Being too specific here is what has probably kept me swimming in my own pond, instead of jumping into other more diverse and opportunistic ones.
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