My Networking Adventures
Lessons from the Real Life Lab of Business Success

The Reason Our Economy Bites

What’s wrong with us? Why are we unemployed, selling nothing, and getting ripped off from every angle? Seriously, look around. Everything that is not gold glitters all around us, while we exist surrounded by unneeded, sale-priced, junky trinkets. Why are half the businesses boarded up in our downtowns?

A couple of real-life Zombies I know and like. Check out the Zombie in the background.

Some offer real, quality products, others offer willing service, and some offer ideas to make a change for the better; they are all confronted with skepticism and low consumer confidence. Apathy abounds. While no one wants to be sold anything, every one wants to buy something, and they do, only to be scammed out of

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F2F Networking Tips
Skills and Tips to Make Your Networking Group Productive

Holidays and Snow Days

1. Holidays: The meeting shall go on UNLESS the holiday falls ON the meeting day. Expect a lighter showing for holiday weeks, but also expect a deeper, more meaningful relationship-building time.
2. Snow days and other inclement weather: When the schools are closed, or delayed during the meeting time, in the area of the BizBuilders Meeting, then the meeting will be canceled officially. This way, all a member has to do is get up and tune in to the local media and watch the school closures report and they know what to do. By the way, the hard part of this is getting all the members to know this, so as always, PASS THE WORD!

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Networking Group Supplies to Help Your Network Grow

Postcard Invitations

Buy in bulk and save! As professional as these make your local group look, you’ll want to get enough that you don’t run out. There’s nothing more embarrassing than having to tell someone that you’d like to give them something, but it’s currently out of stock. Plus, when you order more you save more per piece, so there’s less hesitation in giving them out.

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Business Skills and Tips
Practical Habits for Business Success

Grow you, grow your Biz!

I think everyone would agree that the more you grow your knowledge, the greater your skill in the marketplace. The more you practice, the better you get. The greater your body of work, the greater your opportunity.

My friend Robb Buckland posted on his FaceBook profile a great truth:

I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like master or sensei, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve. 

That's what building a body of work is

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