Posts Tagged ‘Relationships’
Try the Forrest Gump Rule for Effective Networking
As someone who teaches the skills and strategies of effective F2F networking, I want you to handle your name with tender loving care and not just blurt it out when you introduce yourself to a conversational partner. Instead, teach the other person your name so they will actually remember it.
Read More Benefits of Attending Conferences and Conventions
Professional conventions and conferences are a good platform to get trained, interact with people, and learn new ways of conducting businesses. Managers can greatly benefit by attending professional conventions and conferences.
Read More Why People Need to Talk to People
None of us ever has an original idea. Everything we know and think of ultimately comes from what we see, what we read, and what we hear. So what better way is there to get new ideas than to go out and engage with more people, more sources of information?
Read More You Inherited the Family Business—Now What?
The baton is passed; the papers are signed; the nameplate on the door has been changed. The family business is now your business, and what you do with it over the next few months will help chart its course for generations to come.
Read More Make Them Want More: 7 Tips to Retain Customers
Your customers are one of the main pillars of your business structure. You won’t be able to create a sustainable and profit-generating enterprise if you don’t have people who will buy and patronize your merchandise.
Read More What Does This Pricing Strategy Say to You?
Your pricing strategy is one of the key components of your marketing message. It speaks about things far beyond your cost. It communicates value, customer attentiveness and how you view the relationship, both short and long term. It’s not something you should just stumble into.
Read More Does Transparency Hurt Business?
I believe people want to know that those they respect and esteem are normal folks, just like they are. They want to know about their failures, their foibles, their unusual beliefs and interests.
Read More Use This Invention from 1870 to Build Relationships (and Links)
Yes, you guessed it. The phone. Picking up the phone to have a conversation is nothing new. People have been doing it for quite some time and, turns out, it still works! Email and social media platforms are great, but hearing someone’s voice adds character to a conversation.
Read More Shooting from the Lip
Customers don’t want a knee jerk reaction. They don’t want the rehearsed response. They want to invest their time with people who are prepared, who are ready to engage in high impact conversations about their businesses.
Read More The Pros and Cons of Going Into Business with a Buddy
I’ve built five companies in my startup career, four of which I started with close friends. It’s quite common to build a company with a close friend: you get together, think of a cool idea, and decide to get started. Why not, right?
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