It is always a difficult task to keep your eye on the business relationship ball and be the perfect service provider for all those within your network. However, unless you take good care of employers and job seekers, and understand what you could do differently to improve the current service they demand and what their future expectations might be, it will always come as an awful shock when they suddenly defect to a competitor's services.

What makes it worse is that your colleagues are likely to want an answer as to why an employer defected to the competition when you honestly thought you had a good working relationship with them. So just how do you maintain and grow business relationships through networking?