Networking
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Happy New Year
Happy New Year and Welcome to 2019. A new year is the perfect time to both reflect on the past year and start something new for the new year. Reflections on 2018 2018…
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Send a Thank You Card!
Send a Thank You Card We hope you had an enjoyable Christmas Break and got to spend time with your family and friends. In the post-Christmas period / early January – carve out…
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Cold, Warm and Hot Contacts
Part of your Networking Strategy should be about developing your networking contacts and clients through the different stages of “cold” “warm” and “hot” (or whatever other terminology you wish to use). Cold Contacts…
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Quick Tip: Avoid People Politics
Avoid People Politics While internal networking is important, you also need to network internally while avoiding people politics. First and foremost you should be a team player and treat the members of your…
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Have you written these cards yet?
Are you sending Christmas Cards this year? I love receiving a personalised Christmas card and therefore one of my standard tools in my “following up tool-box” is to send personal christmas cards to…
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Quick Tip: Spread the Word!
A very important way to help your network and networking contacts is to help them spread the word. When getting to know your network it is important to listen and understand what they…
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Following Up: Warm up your cold networking contacts
Life is busy. This often means that you don’t always have time to keep on top of your professional network and it is inevitable that your relationships with some of the people…
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Quick Tip: Stop and think about what is the best use of your time!
Quick Tip: Stop and think about what is the best use of your time! Are you a “yes” person? Do you find yourself always doing what’s expected of you? Do you find you…
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Elevator Pitch: How to be more memorable
Whether it is a formal elevator pitch or just a general round of introductions where you have to say who you are and what you do, you have only a matter of seconds…
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Goal: I would like to be more visible to my clients
Goal: I would like to be more visible to my clients. This goal is one we should all have on our list of networking goals otherwise why are you networking if not to…
