Mel Lester of The Business Edge recently wrote a great post on the intrinsic value of your network on his E-Quip Blog. Here is a small sampling of what he had to say: ”So now when I’m helping my clients improve their business development process or providing sales training or speaking at a conference on [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2008’
Something we all have in common
We are all born with an innate human need to be in relationships. I look at my children and can easily see how this need manifested itself early in life, primarily concentrated on the need for relationships within our family structure. As they have grown, I have seen how this need for relationships has influenced [...]
CCB Buzz on Social Media
John Sedivy of Cape Cod Branding has written a great series of posts on the topic of Social Media on his CCB Buzz blog. In Social Media Part I John discusses two views of the role of social media in networking. In Social Media Part II John discuss social media brands and the evolution of social media. In [...]
More Than “Just Marketing”
In the December edition of SMPS Marketer Sara Gammill of EDI Architecture writes a great article about how to position your marketing department as a strategic partner inside your company. You would think that marketing would always be a strategic partner yet many companies, especially those in the service industry, struggle to understand the importance of marketing [...]
Online Networking is not Real Networking
I am a big fan of LinkedIn, yet I recognize that most people do not understand how to use online networking sites to build and maintain their networks. In part, this is due to a misunderstanding because online networking sites in-and-of themselves are not really networking at all, they are just one of many tools [...]
