I consider attending networking events to be my volunteer, or “community service” time each month and my goal is always to make it easy for people to ask for the help they need. Why? Here are five reasons: 1) You
Learning to Love LinkedIn Tip #9
If you’re a business owner (big or small), and didn’t know you could create a Company Profile on LinkedIn, I’m here to tell you you can and it’s time! You don’t have to be a Fortune 500 or even Inc.
What NOT to do at a networking event
Here’s a link to one of the locations where my “What NOT Do at a Networking Event” blog post appeared. Thanks for being a conscientious networker! 🙂 p.s. Here’s another link from when it appeared as a column on WomenEntrepreuer.com.
Back by popular demand – 50-4-50
Due to popular demand, I’ve made time slots available during September and October for my 50-4-50 offer. As you may recall, earlier this summer, for 2 days out of each week, I started offering friends of friends and professional contacts
Engage Online and Off
Keeping up with the rise of social media, both personally as well as professionally, has clearly created stress for some people, but for many of us it has created loads of new consulting and job opportunities that never even existed
Networking Know How Shared
I know I tweeted this podcast when it was first made available, but I meant to share it here on my blog as well: It’s an interview I did with Allie Osmar of The Creative Career. I loved that she
Learning to Love LinkedIn Tip #5
If you can’t find a LinkedIn group that matches your needs, just create one of your own! It’s a fairly easy process and one where most of the work is actually done before you even create the group within LinkedIn.
Study shares 6 essential skills for a strong professional network
Are you building the 6 essential skills associated with having a strong professional network? In my book,“I’m at a Networking Event–Now What???”, I site a study that comes from the folks at Upwardly Mobile Inc. and the Graziadio School of
Please pick my brain…for a fee!
For the next 6 weeks, and for 2 days out of each week, I’m offering friends of friends and/or my Seattle contacts a 50 minute career search or biz dev strategy session for only $50. WE ARE SOLD OUT! THANK
Pay It Forward Networking – Denver style
What a great experience I had in Denver last week while co-presenting (along with SMPS board member, Stan Wagner) to the Denver chapter of the SMPS during a 3 hour workshop on the importance networking plays in truly effective business
Are you on the National No Brain Picking list?
Are you a consultant or a service provider? How many non-billable brain picking sessions did you sit through so far this year? Or, on the flip side, how many brains did you try to pick for free this year? I