How to use the power of online and offline networking for business and career success
After training over 200+ professionals in the last 6 months on their networking skills, I noticed that there was a common theme to what people found hard to do when networking. This theme, went something like this: “how do I start and maintain an interesting conversation, whilst not being boring, but use this conversation to [...]
When I speak to any professional, sales person or business owner, (according to them) the main reason for going networking was to win and generate more business. In fact, it’s all about the referrals. In this series of 2 blog posts we look at the four easy ways that anyone can use their network to [...]
But, BNI (or insert name of any formal business breakfast networking group) is not for me I hear you wail…. it’s too structured for me. It’s true not everyone likes or gets structured networking groups for many reasons: 1) turning up regularly (or getting a sub) gets to be a bit of a bind 2) [...]
Yesterday, I was fortunate enough to be able to give a referral to my network. As the timescales were tight I initially contacted two people, and then remembered a third and contacted the third. Nothing particularly remarkable about this. In all honesty with a large amount of thought I could have recommended many people for [...]
Jon Baker is a Business Coach, Sales Trainer and Experienced Public Speaker. Jon specialises in working with partners and owners from the smaller professional practices.