Referral strategy, follow-up, introductions, and relationship-building, useful whether or not you've ever opened the app.
The goal of networking isn't a bigger contact list. It's a handful of relationships strong enough that people think of you first.
A referral is only as good as its specificity: a vague 'you two should talk' rarely goes anywhere; a referral with real context almost always does.
A good conversation fades fast. Following up within 48 hours, referencing something specific, is what turns it into an actual relationship.
A good introduction gives both people context and a clear reason 'why these two, why now'. Without that, most introductions quietly go nowhere.
Walking into a room with two or three specific things you want to talk about beats 'just seeing what happens' almost every time.
A referral network compounds the same way trust does: a handful of people who consistently show up for each other will outperform a large, shallow list every time.