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Hammering home the point about networking

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

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Have you ever had a situation where you learned something and you thought you knew it - maybe you even passed it along to other people, and then you saw the same idea with a slight variation […]

What’s your pitch?

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

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One of the key things that can make the networking process much easier is developing and getting extremely comfortable with your elevator pitch.
An elevator pitch is a concise, focused and interesting description of who you are and what you do, imagine if you were riding on an elevator with your perfect business prospect […]

Are you on the Marketing Fast Track?

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

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There are a lot of great ways to market your business, but a lot of really effective, inexpensive marketing ideas are related to networking.
In the book Endless Referrals by Bob Burg, Networking is defined as follows:
The cultivating of mutually beneficial, give and take, win-win relationships.
The first couple of steps is to establish a […]

Have you referred anyone today?

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

Networking is a tough thing to do - or at least it’s tough to do well.  If you were to look at the whole thing objectively, the primary reason to network is to benefit yourself or your business.  After all you want to grow your business, that’s the point.
However, the catch-22 is that if you […]

Are you Networking Productively?

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

I’m currently taking the shotgun approach to networking.  I haven’t yet found that really productive niche or two, so instead I’m going to pretty much any event that I can within a 20 mile radius.  It’s pretty tiring, but I think it will pay off in the long run (and I’m meeting a lot of […]

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