Last week, I gave a presentation on strategic partnerships to an organization, and in the introduction, a reference was made to networking and dating. The comment was tongue-in-cheek, but there
I attended a great conference last week and got some amazing leads and opportunities. Unfortunately, as I worked the event, I saw other attendees who weren’t prepared for making the most
Does this story resonate with you? A friend of mine does home improvements, including large jobs like kitchen and bathroom renovations. He had been getting a lot of referrals from
I’m always reading articles where people say “lose the elevator speech.” Obviously I don’t agree, and I think people who say that have missed the point of the elevator speech.
In my last post, I talked about why it’s important to not get too possessive of a seat in a networking group. But there are often two sides to a
If you’ve ever been in a single-person per profession networking group, you already know what I’m talking about. It’s when someone joins with a certain set of core services, and
Last week I had a couple of people mention problems they’d had at networking events, and they were all around this issue. Networking is not selling. Yes, you can make
“Who do you know who” is a very powerful phrase to use when asking for a referral. Why, you ask? The main reason is because it is an open-ended question.
One of my Facebook followers asked me to do this post on networking pet peeves, and I thought it would be fun. Here are mine, but I’m sure many of