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Three of the hardest networking habits you’ll ever love

Fifteen years ago I learned how to network—the hard way. I decided to start my own professional services company serving local technology companies within my own backyard. My first morning on the job was spent culling my list of contacts to develop my calling strategy. After reviewing over 500 contacts, I discovered I had only two within a 100 mile radius of my new home office. Like the scene from It's a Wonderful Life, I had one mama-dollar and one papa-dollar and I needed them to make babies—fast!
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Lost your job? Don’t make that call…just yet.

As an entrepreneur and owner of several businesses, I frequently receive calls from individuals looking to network into their next job. Of course, lately there’s no recession in job seekers and, as a Connector (if you’ve read The Tipping Point), I’ve been pretty busy trying to help those that I can. […]

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Presentation: Access…Giving the Key to Your City

At one time, it was a common practice for a community to honor someone special with a key to the city. It was a symbolic gesture of freedom of access, trust and friendship. We too can honor our brothers with a key to our city – the ecosystem of our […]

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