Sometimes we get so caught up in trying to close a deal, convince one person to make a decision, or become overwhelmed in the day-to-day chaos of “fire-fighting”, that we forget the lessons of Steven Covey to focus on the quandrant of spending time on important, but non-urgent matters. For most personal service providers, recruiters […]
Tag Archive for ‘network help’ 
Find CEO Members Easily: Referral Networking Is Everything
For most high value sales professionals, coaches, consultants, and speakers – referral networking is everything. All the other noise you engage in with marketing and generating leads – cold calling, putting on webinars, attending networking events should take a backseat to referral marketing. I was reminded of this the other day when reading a blog […]
How Do You Find the Super Breed of Trusted Advisers?
In Lesson 7 of the Chair e-Course we talked about building a formal or informal group of “super breed” Trusted Advisers. Let’s assume you don’t yet have 3 deep relationships with “super breed” TAs in each category on the Master TA Category List and Tracking Tool. Where would you start to find these “super breed” […]
Networking Failure - Stop Being "Fraidy-Cat"
I was recycling through some of my blog posts from the last few years on our Job Search Blog and came across one of my favorite on networking – extolling those who should be aggressively networking to stop being a “Fraidy-Cat”. The message is still timely – especially for Vistage/TEC Chairs looking to add CEO […]
Featured Blogger: The Networking Coach - Jan Vermeiren
Jan is one of the most popular and well-recognized bloggers on networking and the use of LinkedIn as a networking tool. I’m very happy to feature Jan as one of our core experts here on the Vistage Chair Blog for Leveraging Social Media to Find Members. You can subscribe directly to Jan’s “The Networking Coach’s […]
Networking Events - Add to Your Toolkit for Finding Members
Jason Jacobsohn, writing on his blog, Networking Insights, reminds us of the need and value of attending networking events. Even for the most introverted networker, these are important events to connect with CEOs/Presidents/Trusted Advisers. Jason lists these 5 benefits of attending networking events: Opportunity to meet many new people Opportunity to reconnect with existing relationships […]
Become a Resource To Others In Your Network FIRST
Jason Jacobsohn, writing on his blog, Networking Insights, one of our featured feeds on the Networking Tab, talks about a powerful networking strategy of becoming a resource to your network. The title of his article is “Become a Resource to Grow Your Network”. Jason makes the case for helping others BEFORE THEY ASK to become […]
Tabbed Structure of Vistage Chair Portal
This site is organized in a tabbed structure – much like a series of file folders: First Tab – FINDING MEMBERS The first tab is the blog articles written by Barry Deutsch, Brad Remillard, and our distinguished list of experts. These blog articles include original content with tips, suggestions, recommendations, and other ideas. It also […]
