Posts Tagged as "business networking"
Mentoring Leads to Success for Female Business Owners.
Where does mentoring play a role for women? When I needed a mentor, I could not find a female mentor who knew much at all about networking and growing my business by word of mouth. I had to go to a male mentor which was great from the business point…
Your Desire to Be Liked is in The Way of Your Desire to Be Successful
Have you ever met someone who you just did not like, maybe in church, at school, or at a business-networking event? Of course! So, would it be fair to say that in all likelihood there are people out there who do not like you? It’s shocking I know, but there…
He Wants to Know What – She Wants to Know Who
Women do not like to talk about their accomplishments, they feel that it is bragging which is unlady like and impolite. Ladies, there is a big difference between “bragging” and sharing your accomplishments, and the latter is important if you are going to network effectively with men. Listen to men…
Use These 3 Strategies to Build Credibility with Women
After surveying 12,000 men and women world wide about referrals and networking we learned that, knowing a person’s level of competency was the most important characteristic for referring a person for women, and women more than men felt that they needed to try the persons product or service prior to…
Gentlemen, What is the Economic Impact of Your Current Networking Strategy
Women are having a global economic impact, but men are still trying to connect, refer and do business with women the same as they do with their buddies. Our global survey of 12,000 men and women says, that does not work effectively. It is time for men and women to learn new skills to adapt to each others style.
Networking or Creating a Referral Strategy
Networking, one of the most popular activities in the business world. It is written about, talked about, videos are done, trainings are held, books are written, and blogs blogs blogs all about networking. Most of them say the same things over and over, leaving you with “Tips” and “Sure Fire…
Women are From Facebook, Men are From Twitter
Following is a guest post from a friend of mine, Lorraine Ball, owner of RoundPeg she has been reading our book and doing some survey work of her own. Very interesting early results! Published in 1992, Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus has sold more than 7 million copies. It…
Look at Networking Differently – Social 46
If you ask people to describe networking you will get a variety of responses, most often it sounds something like this, “going to events where business people exchange business cards and talk business with one another.” While indeed that is a good description of what a lot of “networking” events…
Same Destination – Different Paths
Men and women want to achieve the same things but they are not always on the same path to accomplish the goal. For women it is often about the journey, for men it is about getting to the destination. Here is a clip of a presentation that I did in…
Flirting and Networking – Good or Bad?
Flirting: to court trifling or act amorously without any serious intentions Flirting is a basic instinct, part of human nature. This is not surprising: if we did not initiate contact and express interest in members of the opposite sex, we would not progress to reproduction, and the human species would…
