9 Reasons to Network Early, Part 1 of 3

“It’s just as easy to be ten minutes early as ten minutes late.” Do you remember Mom telling you that? That was right after “Never talk to strangers” and right before “If you keep making that face it will get stuck that way.”...

Count Your Cards

Well, that was a little embarrassing. This past Thursday and Friday I was at an event with a lot of networking potential. No, that wasn’t the embarrassing part. I chatted with a lot of people. No, still not embarrassing. After a short chat, almost all of them...

Refill Your Networking Gas Tank

“That’s all I can stands, cuz I can’t stands n’more.” — Popeye the Sailor I recently attended an amazing program called “Media Mastery Bootcamp” put on by Shawne Duperon of ShawneTV.com. It was a two-day, intensive...

Networking or Socializing?

Is this networking? For some people, the clue bus doesn’t pick up at their stop. I was at the Selling Smart Workshop last Wednesday. My good friend and sales coach, Joe Marr, puts on this monthly event to help people learn some of the basics of good sales...

Activity is not Productivity

Are your networking activities leading youdown a path to where you want to go? How much time did you spend “networking” last week? How much of that was activity and how much was productivity? Most people, when they are doing their networking, tend to work...