Make Your Mouse Proud!
Clearly one of the benefits of networking “offline” is that you get to meet some great people and some fascinating businesses. Over the last couple of years that I have been networking “offline” I have had the privilege of having met some fantastic people who run some fantastic businesses amd yet I have never really [...]
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Blog……Comment
There I was just the other day talking to a chap whom I had never met before. Anyway we were talking about blogs and blogging etc etc. Anyway the subject turned to my blog and he mentioned that he liked one of my posts, cue the really smug happy feeling! anyway I asked if he [...]
Rant! “No I dont hate BNI”
Yes this post is a rant post for which I make no apologies.
Back in June of this year I posted my experience of the Business Network, BNI you can read the post here since that post I have received a number of, well lets just say verbal assaults from BNI members about what I had [...]
The Get of your Arse Edition
Or get off your fat arse in my case! Anyway a little bit of PR for the launch of a new and quite different business book called Get off Your Arse written by the meek and mild Brad Burton.
For those of you who don’t know, Brad Burton is the MD of 4Networking, which is the [...]
Mailing list etiquette
Those of you who follow this blog know that I think that business networking is a fantastic way of increasing you profile and growing your business. However not all is rosy in the world of business networking and there is one aspect that really annoys me.
Mailing lists, well not so much mailing lists themselves but [...]
A year in BNI
This is the second post in the series related to my experiences in business networking groups
July 2008 and a vacancy appeared in local BNI chapter for an IT company, those of you familiar with the BNI concept will know that they only allow 1 company from each sector into a chapter. Given the competitive nature [...]
A year in 4Networking
The first in a series of posts dedicated to my experiences in various Business networking groups. To kick off I will start with the very first organisation I attended – 4Networking
Its was March 2008, the Bridge Inn, Yatton in North Somerset. Sat in my car fearful of what was ahead of me, this being my [...]
I dont roll my eyes when you tell me what you do!
There seems to be a new epidemic thats not Pig related. I call it rolling eyes syndrome and it seems to occur mostly when I talk to people about what I do. As soon as you mention IT, the eyes roll and basically the conversation comes to an end. Honestly it happened to me the [...]