Tag Archives: linkedin

Networking the Morning After

Apr
14
2010

Business Cards

You have been to all the networking events, chatted to people, exchanged business cards. Even found a few contacts that would be worthwhile leads in the future.

Still after all this, it just doesn’t seem to be working.

So you go to few more events, you have been really listening to people and you have your opening  networking pitch perfect, it’s all going well.

However still the results aren’t that great. Sound familiar?

The problem is business networking doesn’t stop once you have left the event. It’s about the longer term networking post event. This is often the most important aspect of networking besides the event.

10 Rules for Small Business and Social Networks

Jun
16
2009

Does small business really need online social media.   Is it really going to provide those instant  benefits that the media and some experts are raving about.

Online Social networkers (or media)  is now all the rave. It’s the new kid on the block, the dream that some many people in business are now chasing as the quick fix.  Now I have seen this wave of blind business hysteria all before, it’s nothing new.

Social Networking via Shotgun

Jul
5
2008

Communtication

A good 12 months ago you could depend upon a a solid core of your social network to be centralised on several common social networking sites, such as flickr, twitter, facebook, linkedin. Things where relatively stable, well as much as they can be. Comments on one sns stayed on that sns, comments on a blog, stayed on the blog. The core of the sns mob would from time to time go explore a new sns, sometimes integrating it into the group of core sites sometime not.