Networking Articles & News
The Promotion Factor: Seven Strategies to Promote Yourself and Your Business by Playing Golf
Effective business promotion is more powerful than advertising. Using golf is one the best ways to increase your business and personal success. Playing golf is the foundation for networking and recruiting. Think about the relaxed atmosphere a golf course provides. It is surely not an office environment where you have to watch what you say and how you behave. Many business opportunities have been realized on the golf course. In addition, many job offers have been negotiated there as well. ...
How PR Helps Managers Win
Anything that lets managers achieve their managerial objectives is a winner. It’s a bullseye when the right public relations alters individual perception leading to changed behaviors among key outside audiences. How that comes about is the story of the day! As a business, non-profit or association manager, you’ve got to do something positive about the behaviors of those important external audiences of yours that most affect your operation. Especially so when you ...
Networking
Networking: Is it who you know or what you know that counts? Who you know gets you into the door, what you know keeps you there! Majority of the people who are in the work force today have got their opportunities through people that they knew or know. Networking in my opinion is the key to starting a successful career. Once in the door it is the individual’s responsibility to progress his or her own career. Networking even pays while you working in your current position. Many ...
How to Make the Most of Those First 30 Seconds
Did you just meet the most important person in your career/business? Tongue tied and not sure what to do about it? With advance planning and creative thinking you can be confident you will know how to handle this situation should the opportunity present itself.
The A B Cs of Networking
In the workplace - and when dealing with workplace matters - networking is a powerful tool. And the same is true in personal and social situations, where friends and family can provide you with a great support system, both as you make decisions about change in your life and as you carry them out. Most of us already have a network, but many of us don’t know it, so we don’t use it. All of us can have a network, but most of us don’t do it, so we can’t use it. My recommendation? Build a network ...
Networking to a New Life
Research shows that talking to strangers -- not people in your comfort zone -- is the single most powerful key to a creative career and business move. Yet many people resist. Sometimes they don't understand the concept of networking. At other times, they set impossible goals. Here are some guidelines for network for your second career, home or life.
Network Marketing Secret: On Becoming the 'GoTo' Guy
For years we’ve been taught to identify ourselves as reps for one XYZ company or another. ~We have our fancy business cards printed, some letterhead, maybe an address stamp. ~We use the company logo and replicated websites as points of first impression. ~We market ourselves as being associated with that company with abandon … heck, we even have the T-shirts to prove it! Sounds okay on the surface, right? Not right. Think Like the CEO ...
Create a 10 Second Introduction From Your USP
You can generate a ton of business by networking, whether you belong to a networking organization or just get referrals from existing (satisfied) customers. Whenever you meet a new potential client, it’s important to create the right impression about you and your business straight away. That’s where a 10 second introduction comes in handy – and the more this introduction stands out from the rest, the more likely your new acquaintance is to remember you.
Think Before You Speak
How many times have you said something and realised that the person, or people, on the receiving end have not fully understood what you meant or headed off and done something different to what you intended?
Keys to Successful Networking While In Transition
Let’s be real. With other pressures of life upon us, having to network can be a burden and increase stress levels.
Networking for Wallflowers: How to Profit from Getting into the Crowd
The two most common complaints about networking are: 1) I never meet people I can do business with and 2) I am always so uncomfortable going to networking events. These two complaints are related and can be relieved with a three step approach to networking that helps even the most frustrated networking wallflowers.