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Keep Learning: Build Your Name as the Person Who Knows There is almost always something good to be said about the person who worked his or her way up. Starting from nothing and learning a...

Beefing yourself up: One way networking helps you that you wouldn’t think of Most of the people I know of think of business-to-business networking as a function of either sales or marketing or both. But...

Look at networking as a long haul and you’ll be alright One of the hardest things for me to understand about the expectations of networkers is the impatience many have. And it isn’t only in...

Want to kick start your business relationship building? Here’s a very good tip! Many partner members find other group members who they would like to develop business today but cannot find the opening. You can’t...

Staying on track in 2015: Make these your goals I know that it is the second part of January already and that the year is well underway. But I think that it is still early...

Starting the year off right: Renew your contacts in the right way For years I have been a bit of a scrooge during the traditional year end holiday seasons. (Normally the  term ‘scrooge’ is for...

Let’s call the whole thing off!: Sometimes you have to fire your agents Though I am in the networking business and I want to see all of my customers find their matches inside of our...

Building relationships are always better than ad hoc business In the kind of networking we do we are often asked to introduce someone somewhere due to the fact that another of our members needed help...

Your long-term strategic goals should include ‘Who’s’ as well as specific outcomes Successful people and successful companies have one thing in common: goals. And goals need plans, which in the mid- to long-term are known...