Show Up

by | Dec 6, 2009 | Blog

This is the number one most important rule of networking success:  You must show up.  This is how you create the opportunities to expand your network. This holds whether you are talking about networking events, group meetings, or even online networking...

What to Record

by | Dec 5, 2009 | Blog

Everything. OK, obviously you can’t track “everything”, but I would recommend tracking as much as possible about your networking efforts.  As a technically minded person, you know that those things that are measured get improved. Right now I...

Any System in a Storm

by | Dec 4, 2009 | Blog

In my previous post about networking, I mentioned that you should have a system to track the details of those in your network (and I mean that in the non-creepy-stalker way).  Nerds, er, technically minded people like myself have a real problem with this. ...
It’s the Little Things

It’s the Little Things

by | Dec 3, 2009 | Blog

On our first full day vacationing at Disney World, we went for lunch at the Crystal Palace. While we were there, our server presented my daughter Kaylie with a cupcake (complete with lighted candle) and a card signed by the characters she had met that day (Winnie the...

The ART of Networking

by | Dec 2, 2009 | Blog

Networking is the process of creating mutually-beneficial, long-term relationships. Given that, it isn’t something that you can do quickly. There is a series of steps which you must follow. Only a Bad Networker tries to skip ahead. The steps are: Awareness: This...