Your Networking Strategy
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Reconnect with your Contacts in the New Year
The holiday season and new year can be the perfect excuse to reach out to some of your contacts for a catch-up coffee (whether virtually or in line with current social -distancing guidelines)…
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How to: Use the “Prompt 52” Pocket Notebook as part of your Networking Strategy
The Prompt 52 Pocket Notebook is a collection of Journal Prompts. This pocket notebook contains the new set of journal prompts for 2021. The Prompt Journal Prompts are designed to get your thinking,…
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Quick Tip: Identify & Evaluate your Professional Network
We wrote previously about identifying who is in your network by using a network circle. You will usually have a mix of contacts in your network so once you have identified your contacts,…
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Follow-Up: Your Marketing Toolkit
Put together a Marketing Toolkit If you haven’t already got one, you might want to consider investing some time in putting together a handy “marketing tool-kit” (or refreshing an existing one). What is…
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How to: Improve the Quality of your Networking
You should be measuring your network by the quality of your relationships and not the numbers. A quality-orientated networker, who focuses on developing relationships will have a high-quality network that they can tap…
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Quick Tip: Networking as a Team? Have regular BD/Networking Calls or Meetings
If you are doing business development and networking as part of a wider team or where you are representing a company or team within a company it is important to have a joined-up…
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Networking Strategy: Why are you Networking? (and more questions to ask yourself)
Why are you networking? Start by asking yourself why are you networking? Interestingly when we carried out this exercise recently, the majority of people in the group were networking to meet new people,…
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Quick Tip: Have a Networking & Business Development Buddy
Part of your networking plan and strategy should be to have a Buddy. This might be someone that you go networking with and who helps you with your networking activities. Alternatively, this might…
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Join (or Create) a Mastermind Group
What is a Mastermind Group? A mastermind group is a peer-to-peer mentoring and advice group used to help members solve their problems with input and advice from the other group members. Group members…
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What Networking Events Should you attend this year…
The new year can be the perfect opportunity to reconsider what networking events and networking groups you should be attending this year. Not all networking events are created equal, so you will need…