How to run a business networking event

Let’s be clear. Hiring a room, making a sign saying ‘Networking event’, and sticking it above the door, does not constitute providing a networking event. Networking events

Who to focus on when networking

For anyone to refer their contacts—possibly close business partners or friends—to your business, they will have to have a certain minimum level of awareness of you and your

OK.  I’m doing what you told me.  How come it isn’t working?

In business, we all need to learn how to do things―whether it’s preparing a financial plan, writing a proposal, or participating in a networking event. Some people make it a

«Network better»: the book

Network better is my new book on business networking—currently looking for a publisher.

A short piece about the strength of business relationships

In his book, Business by referral, Ivan Misner identifies three levels of networking relationship, defined by their strength: visibility, credibility, profitability.

How strong are your business relationships?

In his book, Business by referral (and also here), Ivan Misner identifies three levels of networking relationship, defined by their strength.

“I’m not making progress with networking”

Most businesspeople are not as successful at networking as they would like to be.

What’s the best way to follow up a proposal…

In answering the question, I am following my own maxim ('Whenever anybody tells me they have a problem, all I know at that moment is that that is not the problem') by assuming

Attitude

Attitude is not a negative word. It’s true you can have a bad attitude towards something; but equally you can have a good attitude towards something, for example business

«Network better»: the pitch

Network better is my new book on business networking—currently looking for a publisher. Networking is the only activity that business people do that only requires good