Three Tips to Build Your Business with Networking

Networking is a key to building your business today. Enjoy finding out what three things you can do today to make all those lunches and meetings worth the effort.

The Networking Scorecard

The Strategic Professional is an effective networker; but how do you get a return on your investment of time and energy? As you weave your way through the endless referrals, links and nodes of the networked economy, it can seem like a quest for the Holy Grail? However, the answer is not as obscure as you might think. Like most activities that can add benefit to the bottom line, it just takes planning, effort and measurement.

5 Tips to Help Make Your Networking Organization Amazing

Are you thinking about starting an organization but don’t know what to do first? Or are you already the director of a group looking to expand your membership? If you're interested in experiencing long-term growth and sustainability, apply these five principles to make your group excellent!

Effortless Networking-Finding Qualified Prospects

Learn about a powerful yet under-utilized tool that can help you find qualified prospects every time.

You Only Have 30 Seconds

Does your 30 second introduction make you money? After hearing it, do people come to you asking for more information? If you are not sure, or if you already know you need help, read on!

Wealth Networking - Respecting the Intrinsic Value of Business Cards

Business cards are readily available, and often are thrown around like cheap pieces of paper. Even though they are relatively inexpensive to obtain, they have tremendous intrinsic value. When you ask for respect for the value of your business card, and give that same level of respect to other people's cards, you are traveling the path to Wealth Networking.

Effective Business Networking: How to Keep a Conversation Going

Have you ever wondered how to carry on a great conversation with someone you just met? Read this article for two simple yet effective tips for how to start a great, memorable conversation and keep it going!

Don't Short-Circuit Your Personal Brand and Reputation With Faulty Networking Skills

How you meet and greet new people shapes your personal brand and reputation long before your successes, community contributions, and stories earn editorial consideration by the media. Follow these tips to make sure you don't short-circuit your personal brand and reputation with faulty networking skills.

Joint Ventures - Part VII

There are people and businesses that have a great personal relationship with their customers and prospects.

How To Remember Names

Remembering a person's name seems like a relatively easy thing to do. Memorizing a name is certainly easier than memorizing lines in a play. Recalling a person's name is generally easier than memorizing a ten-digit phone number. If I teach you the secret of how to remember names, perhaps you will never forget mine. I'm willing to try if you are.

Small Talk Savvy - Don't Get Hung Up On Three Common Misconceptions

Small talk is one of those social skills in which people tend to have one of two feelings - they hate it, but grudgingly admit it's useful, or they enjoy it and think they're were born with the gift of gab. What these two groups in common is the misconceptions they have about this necessary and vital communication skill. This article will set the record straight by debunking the myths.

Networking Doesn't Have To Mean Fried Breakfasts

Networking, to many, means getting up at the crack of dawn, meeting with people who you don't want to buy from, whilst eating a third class fried breakfast. If you're looking to change your job to something you want more, it does not have to be that way. Enter the world of social networking!

Networking With Your Alma Mater Great For Building Your Rolodex

One of the perks of graduating from college is that you become one of thousands of alumnus that have attended the same school. Networking with your fellow university alumni is a great way to build your network. Take advantage of this major accomplishment when you need to connect with people in the business world. After all, having something in common with another person is a great way to begin building a relationship.