I love social media, don’t get me wrong, but the downfall of today’s social media is it can give people a false sense of security that they are effectively networking. Spending time on LinkedIn or Twitter is a smart component to your work life, but…
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What is the Difference Between Networking and Marketing in Social Media?
I was in the middle of doing some research for my upcoming e-course on Social Media for Consultants, Speakers, and Sales Professionals, and I stumbled across this blog posting in my Delicious Bookmark Archive. The blog posting was made by Dave Nelson on the Business Networking Blog. How to amplify and not dilute your […]
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 […]
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 […]
Increasing Your Network One Relationship at a Time
Jason Jacobsohn, writing on his blog – Networking Insights – reminds us of the need to think about how we might help others upon meeting new people at “networking type events/opportunities”. You can read his full article about classic networking tactics at networking style events titled ” 2 Sure-Fire Ways to Walk Away with a […]
How Can You Be FOUND?
Here’s an interesting blog post from Vicki Sullivan who recently wrote an interesting blog post at SullivanSpeakerOnline.com about how professional service providers (retained executive recruiters like me and Vistage Chairs like you) are FOUND when someone is searching for help or advice. She spoke to the fact that a recent survey from two highly regarded […]
Should You Prepare in Advance for Networking Events?
Should you conduct research in advance of a networking meeting, an organized community meeting, or an event in your local town? Should you know who you would like to meet and little about them before you ever shake their hand. This is one of the basic elements of classic networking that Harvey Mackay has discussed […]
