With any strategy you need an objective. Like any other tactic it is no good attending networking events and making connections if you don’t have an objective, unless you have plenty of time and money available and not bothered about …
There are some extremely structured networking groups whose main focus is finding and creating referrals for the people in the room; essentially they are your extended sales team. Most of these people will attend regularly, if not required by membership, …
Yesterday was the second of Sayers Solutions’ small business marketing peer support sessions and whilst it was a very small group, we had a good chat about driving traffic to our websites. As I had time after the session I …
Reaping the rewards of networking is a slow burner; well I find that’s the case anyway. Networking is not about instant gratification and ability to sell sell sell, although I do know people that have been lucky like that and …
(Missed the previous posts? click part 1 or part 2 to read them) The third networking event I attended this week – well actually I helped to organise it too – was the Kirklees fsb branch’s networking event on Tuesday …
(missed part 1? read it here) The following morning my alarm started singing at 5.30am, I closed my eyes for another minute or so to wake up slowly and when I opened my eyes again it was 6am and I …
This week I have attended 3 networking events, each of them completely different, and so I thought I would write a collection of blogs to let you know about them. I have been attending networking events since before I set …
On the second day of conference my Chairman said to me … ouch me feet are hurting, but what a fantastic informative time. Actually I think that was more me saying that than him! Today the main arena was open …
So today was the first day of #fsbconf and it was quite quiet, however, to be fair I believe it is considered to be a warm up day; many people travel up to conference on the first day – they …
The night before fsb conference. In the event of trying to make myself blog more often, I have promised to blog on my fsb conference experience and so I have decided to start this evening, the night before the conference …