“Never Leave Home Without Them” This advertising slogan for American Express also applies to your business card. Too many business professionals make the mistake of leaving their home or office without their business card. You never know when you are going to make a new connection and want to exchange contact information. The business card [read more]
Getting comfortable talking to strangers is just one of the many challenges that an effective business networker must overcome. Networking with strangers (i.e., business people you haven’t yet met) allows you to gain access to new information pools and to expand your sphere of influence. It is easier to network with strangers in face to [read more]
When networking for business, you need to carefully manage your on-line persona. You must balance being authentically you with being professionally above board. Remove any photos of yourself or comments that you’ve posted on-line that you would not proudly share with your mother (or your boss, your future employer, your voters or the judge for [read more]
When networking, you must “power down” and put away your electronic gadgets when you meet with people in person. Ringing cell phones and texting distractions send all the wrong body language to the person whom you are physically with. Show them that they are more important to you than your technology…at least for the moment. [read more]
