You know him, he’s at every event, a brilliant conversationalist, give you the shirt off his back. He follows up, keeps his commitments and he’s always happy to make an introduction. He drinks water at every event, not because it’s… Read More »The perfect networker
“I love what I do but don’t like the marketing and selling” When you are in the advice-giving business, particularly professionals and experts in your field, do you feel exactly like the headline? You spend your formative years in education,… Read More »You’re a painkiller
Some say networking is a core business skill. I see it as something we do every day. it is simply building new relationships or on existing ones. It is not just a skill for sales and marketing people but also… Read More »I can’t be bothered to network today!
If you were asked to make cold calls as part of your job I’d guess you’d rather eat a box of spiders!. I know I would. But how do you feel if you have to follow up having met someone… Read More »Eat Spiders or Make that follow up call?
“The mind is a wonderful thing. It starts to work the minute your born, and never stops until you get up to speak in public.” – John Mason Brown I heard from the Dale Carnegie organisation today. They were the… Read More »I am a presenter
I spent the day helping key and senior professionals at Cyril Sweett, International property consultants,with effective and confident networking. Whilst I hope everyone learnt lots of ‘how to work the room’ party tricks I also think most delegates went away… Read More »Isn’t it a pleasure dealing with nice people?
I worked at a well known chemical company where they have a department full of doctors. Not medical doctors, PhD type ones. All very clever and technical who spend their Days looking down xxxx scopes and doing clever things on… Read More »Even scientists do it
If you don’t simply sell products you must be selling a service or service with a product. Everyone has knowledge to give away to show they know what they’re talking about and that is great marketing. Today I ‘nipped down’… Read More »Don’t be afraid to tell….then sell
Baby Chicks in the nest! Are you busy? I hear lots of people say,” What do you think, we’re in recession? No, fees and sales are well down and the phone’s not ringing like it used to.” I hear this… Read More »Baby Chicks in the Nest!
That was a comment made on one of our networking skills seminars when a delegate was asked how he felt when he went networking. I was a little suprised as he was a fellow speaker and I thought a very… Read More »“I feel as if I’m on Big Brother.”
