Fast Business Networking Tips – Clear the Trees

This is an passage from the upcoming book: Face to Face Networking Skills

by Mindy Selinger

All of the information and resources you need to be successful are within your reach, just waiting to be discovered. We can get so busy and single minded on one part of our business that we ‘can’t see the forest for the trees’. Having someone look out for you and recognize and communicate an opportunity when they see it is a great PowerPartner. They’re priceless. I know this from personal experience.  Not long ago, one of my PowerPartners sent me an email of a resource that she thought I would benefit from. She included in her email exactly how she saw me using this resource. I knew about it. Earlier that morning I had received the very same email. But at the time I was really busy. I had too many “trees” in front of me to see the  application she saw. I took action and the result was huge, MASSIVE. I’m very thankful that she took the time to share her ideas with me…  A Good PowerPartner Has Your Back. You can find an excellent PowerPartner at your local Business Networking Groups.

Peter Shankman (of HARO) on Facebook Misuse

This guy is great! I receive at least three emails a day from him, but I always read each one. (has an amazing ‘open rate’ on his emails from his list of nearly 50,000 subscribers!) Peter Shankman, as described by PR Week Magazine is “redefining the art of networking”. Peter is hilarious… a  hyper-active PR specialist, social media addict, marathon-running, skydiver, with two cats (NASA & Karma). He is  the founder of  HARO – Help A Reporter Out. HARO is an unique business networking website. HARO’s three daily emails contain queries from various media outlets looking for experts for their magazine, TV/Radios show, book, article, blog, etc. I have been quoted in a national magazine! Most importantly, I know  many people who are experts on many topics. Every week I forward several queries to people I know. Some have made it to print. HARO fits so well in to the philosophy I teach; become a hub through which information flows. Go to HARO.com and subscribe today.  Then start forwarding queries to the ‘experts’ you know. It may give them their ‘big break’.Follow his easy rules.

I’ve told you who Peter is because I wanted to share his article on the misuse of Facebook invitations.  Go to shankman.com to read the article. That exactly how I feel too. Even though Facebook and LinkedIn are business networking sites. Does being someone’s connection on LinkedIn or FB imply that I want to be added to their marketing promotions? Most of the time they’ve also added me to their email/announcement list, (How’d I end up there?) so the FB invites are duplicates. I’ll venture to say that this is happening with both FB and LinkedIn. Just recently I received this message on LinkedIn: “Would you please Vote for my Mom on the website below she  has entered the Macy’s “I Believe” 2009 campaign competition, to win a trip to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade!” Nope… sorry. Enjoy!

 

 


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