Business Networking Tips
Business Networking Tips – Clear the Trees
This excerpt is from the upcoming book: Face-to-Face Networking Skills
by Mindy Selinger
The majority of all the information & resources you need in order to be successful is within your reach, lurking in the background waiting to be discovered. We can get so busy and single minded on one part of our business that we ‘can’t see the forest for the trees’. Having someone look out for you and recognize and communicate an opportunity when they see it is a great PowerPartner. They’re priceless. I know this from personal experience. Recently, one of my PowerPartners forwarded the email of a resource to me along with her thoughts on how I might use that resource. I knew about it. I had received the very same email earlier in the day. But at the time I was really busy. I wasn’t able to see the application that she saw because of all the ‘trees’ right in front of me. So I took action and had a HUGE result. I’m so happy and grateful that she took a quick moment to share the opportunity with me… A Good PowerPartner Has Your Back. You can find an excellent PowerPartner at your local Business Networking Groups.
Peter Shankman (of HARO) on the misuse of Facebook
This guy is Awesome! I receive at least three emails a day from him, but I always read each one. (has an amazing ‘open rate’ on his emails from his list of nearly 50,000 subscribers!) PR Week Magazine has described Peter Shankman as “redefining the art of networking”. Peter is hilarious… a marathon-running, skydiving, hyper-active PR specialist and social media addict who lives with two cats (NASA and Karma). He started HARO (Help a reporter out). HARO is an unique business networking website. The 3 daily emails from HARO contain inquiries from a variety of media outlets looking for experts for their magazine, blog, TV/Radio show, book, article, etc. I have been quoted in a national magazine! More importantly, I know lots of people who are experts. Every week I forward several queries to people I know. Some have made it to print. I love HARO because it fits so well into the philosophy I teach; become a hub through which information flows. To start forwarding queries to the experts you know, subscribe to HARO today. It may just be the big break they are waiting for.Just follow his simple rules.
I’m introducing Peter because I wanted to share this article he wrote on the misuse of Facebook Invitations. Go to shankman.com to read the article. My feelings exactly. Even though Facebook and LinkedIn are business networking sites. Being FB friends or LinkedIn Connections does not imply you want to be added to their marketing promotions. Most of the time they’ve also added me to their email/announcement list, (How’d I end up there?) so the FB invites are duplicates. I’ll wager this is happening on LinkedIn and FaceBook. Not to long ago I received this message on LinkedIn: “Please vote for my Mom. She has signed up for the “I Believe” contest to win a trip to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.” Sorry…no. I hope you enjoyed the article and HARO!
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