Many people I meet are keen to do more networking to generate new business – however, often their fear of standing up and presenting about what their business does causes such nervousness that it prohibits them from getting involved. At our BNI Networking meetings throughout London all members are given the opportunity of sharing a [...]
As a director of BNI I’m extremely proactive in the world of offline networking. In fact, in an average week I can meet and engage with often more than 80 businesses – learning about their latest business activities, what they’ve been up to, their challenges, their objectives and their plans. As I have said on [...]
A guest blog from Diane Keen of Zest Networking I was asked in an interview recently do men and women network differently. My answer was yes and no. I agree that there is nothing more frustrating than a yes and no answer. What does that mean? Surely it’s a simple question. You’d have thought that [...]
With US President Barack Obama teaming up with their (Republican) House Speaker John Boehmer for a round of golf recently during which they will have chatted about budget cuts, etc., could this be a “shut up” signal to all those nay-sayers who claim that business networking on the golf course is as outmoded as video [...]
About every four or five weeks, I take an active role in motivational meetings that are usually held in central London. The meetings are great but so are the journeys, a couple of hours train ride in the morning and then again in the evening. That enforced rest for two hours at a time [...]
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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