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Category: Networking
There is a lot to be said about the follow ups
I haven’t had much sales training in the past, but I have come to realise that the follow ups and 1:1 sessions outside of the networking events are even more important than attending the events themselves. However it is very …
What do you want to get from networking?
With any strategy you need an objective. Like any other tactic it is no good attending networking events and making connections if you don’t have an objective, unless you have plenty of time and money available and not bothered about …
Who is in your network?
There are some extremely structured networking groups whose main focus is finding and creating referrals for the people in the room; essentially they are your extended sales team. Most of these people will attend regularly, if not required by membership, …
Driving Traffic to your website
Yesterday was the second of Sayers Solutions’ small business marketing peer support sessions and whilst it was a very small group, we had a good chat about driving traffic to our websites. As I had time after the session I …
Networking is a slow burner
Reaping the rewards of networking is a slow burner; well I find that’s the case anyway. Networking is not about instant gratification and ability to sell sell sell, although I do know people that have been lucky like that and …
3 networking events in 28 hours (part 3)
(Missed the previous posts? click part 1 or part 2 to read them) The third networking event I attended this week – well actually I helped to organise it too – was the Kirklees fsb branch’s networking event on Tuesday …
3 networking events in 28 hours (part 2)
(missed part 1? read it here) The following morning my alarm started singing at 5.30am, I closed my eyes for another minute or so to wake up slowly and when I opened my eyes again it was 6am and I …
3 networking events in 28 hours (part 1)
This week I have attended 3 networking events, each of them completely different, and so I thought I would write a collection of blogs to let you know about them. I have been attending networking events since before I set …
On the second day of conference …..
On the second day of conference my Chairman said to me … ouch me feet are hurting, but what a fantastic informative time. Actually I think that was more me saying that than him! Today the main arena was open …