Connection Over Clout

At fourteen, Andrés A. Bohórquez was cleaning classrooms at night with his parents. Years later, he was sitting at a dinner table with David Rockefeller Jr.

What got him from one room to the other was simpler than a big network or a perfect plan: he paid attention to people.

Connection Over Clout is the story of the people who changed his path: a regular customer who became a friend, a stranger who offered to pay for his last semester of college, a retiree with a walker and a McLaren, and a catering guest at Sotheby’s who became his mentor after two weeks of unanswered emails. Along the way, Andrés shares what he learned waiting tables, selling New York real estate, and building his marketing company, Green Mo., later also known as GreenMo Marketing Solutions, including the mistakes and failed businesses that taught him the most.

In this book, you’ll learn how to:

• Ask questions that turn small talk into real conversation
• Follow up without being pushy, and why silence usually isn’t a “no”
• Build relationships on generosity instead of transactions
• Find good mentors, and become one
• Stay honest when you don’t have all the answers

Part memoir and part practical guide, the book ends with a Connection Toolkit you can start using the same day. It’s for anyone who has ever walked into a room and wondered if they belonged there.