Social sites like Facebook started out as great places to keep track of friends and family, allowing you to share the latest news, gossip, and photos. Inevitably, businesses have been quick to understand the potential of developing a presence on these sites, as a way to create brand awareness. This idea is supported by Google’s [...]
Archive for Networking
Why Grow Your Network?
Expanding your network is important no matter what your industry. A network can help you find the people and knowledge you need to achieve your business and/or career goals. Networking helps you stay current with your industry, and, if you enter your network with an open mind, you will easily pickup new ideas, business techniques [...]
The New Leaders
The New Leaders “It’s up to each one of us to lead in today’s new kind of world.” (former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley) Seth Godin’s latest book, Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us, a bestseller, is about the most powerful form of marketing (according to Godin) –leadership–and how anyone can become a leader, by [...]
Making the Most of Linkedin for Professional Networking
Making the Most of Linkedin for Professional Networking When we think of social networking, we tend to think of the FaceBook and MySpace sites, where people from all corners of the earth can meet, chat and share pictures. The problem with using these sites for business is that they attract a lot of clutter and [...]