Tag Archive: networking

Connecting with New People

Here are some simple to follow steps toward developing your people skills and enhancing your network:
1. Be nice, and everything else will fall into place.
Our friend and mentor Liz Strauss has a motto for SOBCon, “Be nice.” How hard is that? How many people do it? Being nice creates likability and trust. People do business [...]

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The Power of the Strategic Alliance

After reading this post from Jason Falls – about the ROI of Social Media – I have been thinking a lot about a quote from Jeffrey Gitomer:
“Most people have powerful connections. Very few people have harnessed the power of their connections.”
“Because of”- Not “With”
It occurs to me that there is a lot more to a [...]

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SOBCon 08 – The Update

Greetings all!
Stephen Smith here, or @Stephen as some of you may know me. Liz and Terry have invited me to do a little guest-posting here at the SOBCon blog and I am thrilled to be here.
I trust that you are all still as excited as I am about what you learned and the people that [...]

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