Where ART Thou?

by | May 21, 2010 | Blog

Show me your Facebook account and tell me that you have a thousand “friends” and I may look at you askance. While everyones favorite social media site has done its share to bring folks together, it does have one sin that I lay directly at its collective...

Networking with the Stars

by | May 20, 2010 | Blog

The other day I had a meeting with Lucy Ann Lance, a local radio personality, and Dean Erskine, her business partner. We were talking about working together on a project (which I will talk more about on a different day). The funny thing was, even though I had been on...
Personal Networking: Laura Spensley

Personal Networking: Laura Spensley

by | May 19, 2010 | Blog

I had a very pleasant meeting this afternoon with Laura Spensley, owner and Marketing Manager of SERVPRO of Canton and Washtenaw County. For those who are unaware, SERVPRO is a company who comes in and helps you clean up and restore your home after you’ve gone...

Super-Connectors

by | May 18, 2010 | Blog

Almost any networker, good or bad, is a connector. We know a fair number of people and what they do and what they need and, wherever possible we try to bring people together because they might be able to help each other. Then there are the super-connectors. These are...

The Hunter and The Gardener

by | May 17, 2010 | Blog

Yesterday we talked about one analogy with respect to networking. Today, as I struggled to roto-till my vegetable garden, I remembered another one that I had heard. Networking is to selling what gardening is to hunting. While both networking and selling can result in...