Archive for networking
Listening online: The Gift of Ear
Are you a good listener? I mean a really good listener – someone who incites a conversation, keeps engaging your audience, and offers signals that you are truly at attention? I just read a great article on listening to conversations, “Master the Art of Listening and Watch All Your Relationships Thrive” by Gail Brenner, Ph.D [...]
Read moreThe art of getting back
Is etiquette and common courtesy all but gone in this age of instant messaging, email, social media, and mobile phone? Its hard to imagine a single instance where a person cannot get in contact with another. Its even harder to concoct a legitimate excuse as to why you couldn’t get back to an email, tweet, [...]
Read moreAll aTwitter
DO YOU TWITTER? Twitter has opened up amazing opportunity in my life – it helps grow my personal brand and freelance business, drives traffic to my website and regularly opens up new relationships and networks that I probably could never have found on my own nor even dreamed of having access to. I signed [...]
Read moreLocavore Tweetup
Attended my first Tweetup this week hosted and organized by the Round Barn Farm in Waitsfield. Despite the relentlessly soggy weather, there was a good turnout for the event. In addition to the fantastic venue @roundbarnfarm provided a great spread of local eats and a cash bar. There were a couple of short seminars on [...]
Read moreHow not to network
I recently attended a local micro-mixer (that’s what I call last-minute networking ops disguised as a promotional event, usually at a bar or similar,) and chatted up an attendee about the promo, is she a Chamber member, what’s her biz – the usual talking points. She was a little gruff about the Chamber and proudly [...]
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