Archive for the ‘Networking’ Category

When business trading gets tougher, it’s essential to look at new routes to market and talk to people who may be in a position to help promote your business. Often it’s not WHAT you know but WHO you know, and WHO they know! The ‘secret’ is in the network. Networking isn’t a new thing, but [...]

Referrals Can Help You: o SAVE Your Business! o IMPROVE Your Business Revenue! o ENSURE Your Businesses Profitability! Studies consistently reflect that, as purchasers of goods and services, we do business with those whom we “know, like and trust”.  This is true whether one is a retail consumer making the purchase of a major appliance or an automobile; [...]

More and more small to even midsize businesses are venturing into joining formal business networking groups to increase revenues, contacts and market presence. For example, in NW Indiana, there are many groups such as BNI, Leads, PROS, NWI Professionals, Northwest Indiana Business Professionals and Porter County Business League. Recently another group has thrown its membership [...]

In every aspect of life, it is impossible to succeed without the help of other people. We are constantly in need of assistance in areas that we are not good in. Mainly because no man is an island and one cannot be an expert in every area. This makes networking vital if you are to [...]

Many people get a bit frustrated when they don’t see the immediate results of networking. Hey, sometimes networking is a slow process and takes a while. I encourage all not give up, and keep plugging away with your networking efforts; even if you don’t think it is going anywhere. When you least expect it, you [...]

When most business owners think of growing their business, they usually think of advertising. But you know what? If your business has been up and running for a while, then you already have a customer base and it’s likely that you also have prospects and business associates. Business associates are generally other people in the [...]

Networking is letting our persona do the talking for us. By the way we communicate without sometimes even saying a word, simply by the way we carry ourselves with or without confidence. Some of the ways we can be successful at making connections with people are as follows. Having Integrity By being sincere in our [...]

There are two questions you’re almost always guaranteed to get at a business networking event. If it’s the first time you meet someone, they will invariably want to know, “What do you do?” You must be prepared with a great answer to this question, but that’s for another article. The other question is going to [...]

Are you one of those fortunate people who met your best friend in kindergarten and the two of you have been friends ever since? I know several adults who can make this claim. It started me thinking about what we learned in kindergarten about making friends. The purpose of networking, after all, is making friends [...]

Business Network Events can be great ways of meeting other business owners and managers. Breakfast events are particularly efficient because you are free for the rest of the day. Business networking can be daunting at first from the young business owner because you are put in a room with lots of other business people who [...]