This article originally ran at theDigitalFA. You can visit it here; and be sure to check out the site – it’s full of great ideas on building a digital presence for financial professionals (and the rest of us). What does “using” social media mean to you? When I work with professionals on their social media […]
The Magic Number of Networking Connections
I often get asked about the ideal number of connections you should have in your professional network. The topic often gets muddled because our first impulse is to equate networking success directly with the number of connections we have. I’m here to tell you that you don’t need a huge number contacts to have networking work for […]
Three Reasons People Fail at Networking
In the past few years, I’ve found that people either love the idea of business networking or they think it’s a complete waste of time. How is it that some people build flourishing businesses based on the power of their network, while others fail to build any sort of connections at all? Since I’ve started running networking […]
5 Places You Should be Networking this Summer
I don’t know about you, but once the thermometer hits 80 degrees the last thing I want to do is put on a suit and go to a networking event. Here in the Midwest, we try to squeeze in as much fun as we can in our seemingly too short summer. But that doesn’t mean […]
52 New Networking Partners
How would you like to have 52 more professionals in your network? How would you like to have strong, meaningful business relationships with 52 more people than you do right now? Pretty appealing, huh? Here’s how you do it. Find a new person to have coffee with every week for the next year. It only […]