Setting the Example

We can only point them to the path. They have to walk it themselves. I was speaking to a friend of mine a few months ago about networking. We were talking about an event he had attended recently. He had walked out feeling frustrated because, as he put it, “no...

Is Facebook Networking?

I just finished with my nightly forays into the world of Facebook. I usually spend fifteen or twenty minutes checking in on what my friends are doing and seeing if anyone else has “liked” my Reluctant Networker fan page. The question remains, though, can...
Toward Successful Networking

Toward Successful Networking

I was cleaning out my office tonight when I came across a small book of quotes by the inestimable Jim Rohn. I was flipping through it and reading a line or two at random when I came upon this one: Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural...

Conversations, not Pitches

Why won’t they just follow the script? My good friend, Jeff Morris, president of CallYourHelpDesk.com and our local Cartridge World franchisee, sent me a link the other day to an article on Huffington Post written by Michael Port. In the article, Port talked...

On Being Genuine

Some folks just set conversational snares I’ve said in the past that truly great networkers almost have to have a split personality. They have to position their networking in a strategic way to bring themselves into contact with their target market and those who...
Greg Peters
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