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Where Have I Heard That Before?
I was having lunch with a new friend, Meaghan McCann the other day over at one of my favorite networking spots, Marnee Thai. Meaghan is a Google Adwords expert. She teaches regular workshops about the subject and can really help people get their search engine...
Small Beginnings
Even he was an unskilled white belt at one time. We're in the middle of "Black Belt Camp" down at Keith Hafner's Karate. This is a four-month period of intensified training and testing that Black Belt candidates have to go through in order to achieve their...
The Networking Sixth Sense
My buddy Al Bogdan is a photographer and he does an amazing job with portraiture. We love it when he takes pictures of our girls. I mean, Abby and Kaylie are certainly adorable, but Al seems to have a sixth sense about lighting levels and angles and all the little...
You Always Know Somebody
Glenna Salsbury -- Great speaker! At the urging of my good friend, Eleni Kelakos, this morning I attended an event with a new group. This was the bi-monthly meeting of the Michigan chapter of the National Speakers Association. The meeting itself was outstanding....
Treating Them like Babies
Our daughter, Abigail, is two weeks old and is, in general, a true delight and a wonder. She's a very sweet baby and is already teaching me lessons about life and (I know you'll find this a shock) networking. I've been amused to find the similarities between my...
The Incomplete Networker
A lot of people tell me that I just don't understand how difficult it is for them to get out and network. After all I'm such a naturally outgoing person. Right. It's about at this point that I remind them that I am a computer programmer by training -- a training...
Types of Events: The Breakfast
I guess I can't really call it a series until I have more than one post on the subject, so here is the second in my non-regular series about general event types and the tactics, tips, and techniques we can use to make them pay off. As with the lunch-time networking...
Types of Events: The Luncheon
Networking events come in all shapes and sizes and each individual event has its own "personality" which can make it a better or worse opportunity for us. Still, we can group most gatherings into larger categories which all share similar attributes. This is the...
You Have to at Least Like Them
With some people it's instant chemistry.With others ... not so much. In the early days of networking, you would develop connections with someone based solely on what you thought you could gain from them. You connected with those in power or who would someday be in...