[alphaChicks] Networking Tips!
Today’s Blog post Stephanie Williams, founder of [alphaChicks] shares some of her favorite networking tips. It’s a new year full of new resolutions and goals and yet, I’m sure one thing still remains the same: find new prospects and make new connections. So, here are our top 3 tips to building a quality rolodex: Quality over quantity. Getting a ton of business cards can make you look productive but probably isn’t more than glorified desktop décor. Focus on networking in places where you have either a common interest such as an industry or target market or a like-minded...
read moreHow Much Time for Social Media?
Small business owners often complain about the time required to jump into social media. But these same “busy” business owners will spend hours at networking events and in pointless one on one conversations. Now don’t get me wrong. Good networking is valuable! And smart one-on-ones will fuel your business. Unfortunately, many business owners confuse activity with productivity. They assume if they simply show up enough times, something will happen. While this is fine in the early days of your business, as you get clients and projects, you need to manage your time,...
read moreAt the Water Cooler
I spent the early part of my career working in larger companies. Along the way I discovered I was much more productive, wandering the halls, talking to people, then I was sitting in meeting. I learned very quickly, that real decisions were made, around the water cooler. When I started my own business, I missed those productive, daily conversations. I knew those informal ”water cooler” conversations were important. It just took me awhile to figure out that my water cooler is the local coffee shop. The Subject of This Week’s Podcast is The Water Cooler –...
read moreNetworking 001
Written by Melinda Cooper I am going to my first real networking event in the morning and I have to admit… I am a little nervous. I’m a social girl and I can social network on Facebook and Twitter all day long, but can I network face-to-face? It’s not like I can go around the room and click on people and anonymously (for the most part) select ‘add as friend.’ So here I am searching on our *new* site up a storm under the ‘Networking’ category taking notes from Lorraine’s blogs (since she’s a self-proclaimed networking junkie). Trying to...
read moreWin, Win, Win!
I had a chance to hear my good friend Tony Scelzo make a presentation at the Rainmaker Summit. While he had a number of great points in his presentation to Rainmakers on how to effectively use WOM (Word of Mouth) to grow their business, the most compelling element for me was his comments on creating a triple win! Simply put Tony believes WOM works best when two companies collaborate to bring value to the consumer. His primary example is the comparison of the Google approach to the Microsoft approach. Google provides free tools which business use to improve productivity. As a...
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