Giving Generously

Sometimes the best way to give is just simply to acknowledge another person’s efforts, or accomplishments, or struggles. The other morning I received a phone call from my dear friend Kristin Mead. She had read one of the posts from this blog and decided to give...

Destroy the Competition

I love to meet others in the area who do what I do. Marketing companies who do website design, dedicated Web professionals, programmers — I want to know who they all are. After all you’ve got to know the competition so you can beat them, right? Well, for...

Groups: Why Quit?

We’ve talked quite often recently about joining and participating in networking groups. The events that these organizations put on can be a font of new contacts whom you can develop into strong networking partners. So why would you ever quit? Actually, there can...

Attending vs Participating

Becoming part of any social or business organization is a great way to accelerate your networking.  You get to see the same people on a monthly or even weekly basis.  You quite often share a common interest with them.  You might even get a discount or...
Finding Mary Poppins

Finding Mary Poppins

Miss Beth and Kaylie As we all know by now, networking is one of the best ways to develop our business relationships.  Clients obtained by word of mouth are quite often the best ones we’ve ever had.  They require far less work to sell to and sometimes...