How to use the power of online and offline networking for business and career success
It was all going so well. In fact, as it turned out too well… All I needed to do was agree dates with the client for a series of workshops worth nearly £10k to us. That should be the easy part? Right? Wrong! I delegated the job of agreeing dates to my chief organiser, Lisa. [...]
I was asked to endorse someone on LinkedIn yesterday. Nothing unusual in that. However, I’d never worked with them, in any capacity, never known anyone who had worked with them. I’d only exchanged one or two tweets…. I also vaguely remember my suggestion, some time ago, to help strengthen his LinkedIn profile was not well [...]
A great benefit Of LinkedIn is that it can help you to get to know people and their business, including prospects for your business. Reading through a well written profile can often help you more than talking to them for 10 minutes. What you do with useful connections is then up to your strategy. How [...]
LinkedIn can help you find new prospects and discover more about them before you even think about “selling”. In a previous article I talked about using LinkedIn groups to get more business. I recommended using groups; commenting on discussions and creating your own discussion threads. These are good ways of letting your contacts know you [...]
So, we are onto my 4th and final time saving twitter application. I deliberated long and hard before deciding on my 4th tool. Would I choose a dashboard application like hootsuite, socialoomph, social sprout or sendible? In a word, no. For each of these, I found that there was either something I didn’t like or [...]
I do remember a time when lists didn’t exist on twitter…. However, let’s not reminisce now! Like many people when lists were first introduced, I thought great. But, how can I take out the back-breaking element of adding people to lists? At 2000+ followers then, I really didn’t want to have to manually categorise my [...]
This is part 2 of a four part series focusing on the best twitter tools which you need to be using. In today’s blog, we are going to look at BufferApp. What BufferApp does is save you from having to go into twitter regularly across the day to share interesting and relevant content. The way [...]
I have been fortunate to introduce many great professionals to social media, and share my love of twitter with them. Inevitably, the time question normally gets asked ‘how much time does twitter need?’ or ‘how often do I need to tweet?’. At that point there is an awkward silence. However, with many of the twitter [...]
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.