photo by annia316  A lot of business owners talk about growing their business by networking.  You imagine a crowded chamber after hours meeting and it’s hard to picture generating business in that kind of setting. The reality is you can’t (or at least it’s unlikely). What you can do at those kinds of events […]

Networking for your business is about making friends (you don’t have to kiss them…). Unfortunately most people don’t really ‘get’ the whole networking thing, which makes going to networking events sometimes very painful.  As an example, at an event I was at last week there was a woman that was waiting in a corner and […]

  photo by Ben Alford  I was at a networking event the other day and one of the people that I was meeting with remarked “You’re a Connector, aren’t you?”. Malcolm Gladwell popularized the term Connector in his best selling book The Tipping Point a few years ago.  Simplistically Connectors are people that know a […]

photo by pt  I’m doing different workshops on Online Marketing and using Online Social Networks to grow your business and one of the consistent questions I get is “What can I do with an Online Social Network for my business?” It’s a great question, and generally my response is another question – “What are you […]

Ben Franklin was an amazing man – most people are familiar with several of his more famous inventions.  As an outcome of his studies of electricity he invented the lightning rod.  He also invented the bi-focal glasses that he’s often pictured with (he was both near and far sighted and got frustrated with having to […]

photo by Katiew Networking is all about establishing mutually beneficial win-win relationships with people that you know, like and trust (and vice versa).  Unfortunately it can be really difficult to develop those kinds of relationships in traditional professional networking environments. Enter the opportunity of the dinner party. In his book on networking and relationships “Never […]