Are You Helping Yourself or Hurting Yourself When You Network?

Learn why talking politics at a social function will hurt your networking efforts.

10 Biggest Mistakes Professionals and Entrepreneurs Make When Networking And How To Avoid Them?

Would you like to know how to avoid 10 biggest mistakes when you are networking?

Hit Your Target Market with a Well Cooked Cross Promotion Utilising Your Business Networks

Our society has never been so well connected, so why is it that business owners all around the world still can’t seem to get to their target markets faster? With the “IT” landscape continuously changing, working out ways to take advantage of all of this new technology has never been so time consuming. However, business owners and companies have never been in such a prime position to utilise their business connections to reach their target markets easier. But how do you utilise your business networks to access more customers faster, reduce your marketing costs and create mass awareness in a relatively short amount of time.

MasterMind Groups That Change the World

The best and brightest have belonged to MAsterMind groups, is it your time?

Networking: Are You Ready?

Before you leave your office to network, make sure YOU are ready!

Working At International Level - International Business Networking Is For You

Are you Entrepreneur? Venture Capitalist? Business angel? International executive? Inventor? agent? International service provider? International buyer? Manufacturer? Student? Jobseeker? How can you find business partners or investors at low cost and quicky?

Mastermind Do's and Don'ts

Masterminding has become a popular topic these days. Having been involved in mastermind groups that worked and groups that did not, I can tell you it's important to make sure you have a few ground rules in place if you want masterminding to grow your business and not just become a drain on your time.

Dollar Drink Night: Boozing With Coworkers Could Help You Financially

There’s a group in every office. They hit the nearby watering hole for happy hour once or twice a week after work to vent shared frustrations, talk about the boss behind his back, maybe even plot future career moves.

Building A Perpetual Referral System

There's No Business Like Referral Business. The essence of business success is measured by achieving 100% of 3 key goals: Profit goals, Balance goals and Referrals goals. There are hundreds of books that have been written on each of these topics. Today we look at referrals. There's no business like referral business. In fact, referrals are the Holy Grail of business development. Referred clients take less time to close, produce higher gross profits and refer you more quickly.

Networking Reluctance Does Not Have to Be Fatal

Many people who sell find themselves dreading it, doing it stressfully and being reluctant with networking. This is one of a series of articles to turn networking misconceptions into better understandings.

Networking Mistake Myopia

Many people who sell find themselves dreading it, doing it stressfully and being reluctant with networking. This is one of a series of articles to turn networking misconceptions into better understandings - and sales.

Rules to Building Superior Relationships

Finally, businesses are starting to understand that people and their relationships are critical to their success. In a relationship-based business, the agreement between two or more parties assumes trade-offs between cost, risk, skills, labor, and rewards. This agreement should outline how the involved parties will treat each other. The agreement must address the character, quality, and integrity of the relationship.

Timing

With time so valuable, we should be very clear about how we spend it, and whom we spend it with.

The Elevator Speech That You Whisper

When people ask what you do, do not talk about yourself. Rather, describe emotionally the pains that you relieve. Whispering is the polite way to do that – and it really gets them to listen. State that you rescue people from those pains and they’ll ask you for your business card.