Business Networking 101
Most business owners know there’s value in face-to-face networking. But where do you start for successful business networking? Here’s a quick and dirty guide.
Ideal client
You have to start with some important questions: Who is your ideal client? What problem(s) do they face? What other professionals might they come into contact with?
Your goal is to build relationships with referral sources. You want to get to know the folks who know and work with your ideal clients.
This may be rudimentary for you. But too many people miss the point of business networking. You’re not looking for clients. You’re looking for referral sources. …
Huge Discount for Networking and Career Development Tool
If you haven’t checked out JibberJobber, you’re missing out on a valuable career tool. I went through its merits extensively a while back in a JibberJobber series.
Now JibberJobber is more accessible than ever. It’s on sale!
Until April 9th, you can upgrade to JibberJobber Pro, for life, for only $99. The regular price of this version is $495. As you can see, the CEO, Jason Alba, may have lost his marbles! He’s practically giving away the company’s flagship product. That’s a pretty slick marketing …
Facebook Trounces MySpace for Networking
I try to be on top of online trends and new technology. So I’m a little ashamed to say that I just registered with facebook yesterday. Even worse, I only signed up for MySpace a few weeks ago. In my opinion, both these sites aim to accomplish the same task, but facebook does it much better.
Instant friends
Facebook imported my contacts from Gmail and figured out that some of them were already facebook’ers. With my permission, it send friend requests to a couple dozen people. Within minutes, I had friends!
Finding and adding more …
New Social Networking Site for Professionals
Professionals surely know about LinkedIn. Perhaps you’re really hip and even understand MySpace. Now there’s a new player on the block: Meet Job Pros.
The interesting thing about Meet Job Pros (MJP) is that it seems to merge some of the key features of MySpace and LinkedIn. It’s kind of “MySpace with a professional twist.” But understand that not many people have registered yet, so some screens are a little blank.
When you first go to the site, …
The Networking Carnival – Fourth Edition – Help for Newbies
Are you ready for some whirly fun at the carnival? The response for this month’s networking carnival was great! Here’s what Thom posted, that I asked people to respond to:
A new year has begun. Instead of doing the typical New Year’s resolution, let’s focus on something a bit different. Let’s help out the people who are new to networking. Provide your best tip to help networking newbies start the year right.
So without further ado, here comes the …
Online Networking with JibberJobber – Part 3
This is Part 3 in a series of posts on Jason Alba’s Career Toolset, JibberJobber. Check out Part 1 and Part 2
I think I’ve covered the basics of JibberJobber, so this final post is really to highlight a couple things I didn’t get to yet.
First, JibberJobber has a neat online “Library.” Basically, users input links, articles, and books that they find interesting. You can share your library items with others or keep them …
Online Networking with JibberJobber – Part 2
This is Part 2 in a series of posts on Jason Alba’s Career Toolset, JibberJobber. Check back soon for future posts in this series.
Yep, it has been almost two months since Part 1 of my JibberJobber series. Sorry for the delay.
If you recall, Part 1 focused on using JibberJobber to manage and track your networking contacts. In Part 2, I’m going to highlight some other cool features of the service.
Track companies
Part of a job …
Networking Carnival Approaches
Everybody loves the carnival, right?! That’s why I’m hosting the Networking Carnival right here at Legal Andrew.
Get free publicity
A carnival is a great way to help build traffic to your blog. All you do is write a post on the topic and submit it to the host. The host then links to the posts from his blog. This provides a central location for everyone to go see that edition of the carnival. Everyone gets links, more traffic, and more publicity.
If you’ve read Blawg Review, it’s the same concept.
Check …
Networking Carnival – at Some Assembly Required
Networking is an essential part to being a lawyer, or any professional for that matter. I have written about networking before, especially about using different technologies to aid in this endeavor.
To help your networking efforts, Thom Singer posted the December Networking Carnival over at his blog, Some Assembly Required. There is some good content over there, so you should check it out.
The cool part is that I’m hosting the carnival for January! It will go up on January …
The Easy Way to be Interesting, Make Networking Easier
There is a great article over at Lifehack, providing some easy tips to be more interesting. Give these a quick read and consider implementing some of them in your life. Some great benefits might be meeting new and interesting people, and also being able to converse easier with others. Your networking efforts will thank you.
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