Posts Tagged as "connections"
Are You Supporting or Undermining Your Fellow Female Business Owners?
Men insult each other, but they don’t mean it, Women compliment each other and they don’t mean it either. I found that quote on my Facebook wall one day and I thought, wow, how profoundly true that statement really is. The last few weeks I have been thinking about how…
8 Things to Watch Out for When Beer and Networking are Combined
This is part two of a post by my friend and fellow Tweeter, Greg Magnusson DVM is an Indianapolis Veterinarian and owner of Leo’s Pet Care. Part one is on the Blog for Lipstick on The Rim. Greg is a prime example of why it is important to have a good…
Start From Where You Are
Shortly after finishing one of my monthly Referral Success 101 classes I had a gentleman participant approached me with a concern and a question. His concern was a very familiar one to me; “I have spent so much of my life always trying to get the deal, looking for the…
Liar Liar Pants on Fire
Remember when you were a kid and you would catch someone in a lie, all the kids would run around and sing “liar liar, pants on fire, tear your britches on a telephone wire”. I felt like tweeting that very thing to a tweeter this week. I was on twitter…
How do you get connected to the decision maker of a company?
I did a presentation today for the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Business Growth Series. I was asked the following question, How do you get connected to the decision maker of a company? A good question and one that many people ask. The answer is simple, but it is not…
Relationships, Responsibility and Forgiveness
Friends who care about you are hard to find and should be held onto even when one screws up. There is always room for open honest communication and forgiveness. The hardest part is the open honest communication, and ASKING for Forgiveness then GIVING it! I wrote the above statement and…
Network Deep instead of Wide
Have you ever ask someone for a referral or introduction to one of their contacts only to be put off or not introduced at all? Did you wonder why? You might be surprised to know that your referral source did not have the same level of credibility as the level…
5 Questions to Ask Yourself About Social Networking
Linkedin, Twitter, FastPitch, BizNik, Ecademy, Plaxo, HiveLive, Facebook, MySpace, and any of the 500 different sites online are all available to you if you choose to network online. However, how many and which ones should you belong to? I am often asked if I am able to track back any…
Sometimes a Relationship is Not What it Seems
You know how sometimes you get involved in a relationship and you are sure that it is one thing only to find out it is really something else? Women can certainly relate to this, they find themselves dating for a while and they believe they are in one kind of…
If you borrow it…..return it better
How many times have you loaned something to someone only to have them return it damaged? How do you feel? Angry, disappointed and yes hurt, after all it was your item and you trusted the person that you loaned the item to. We loan our credibility to others regularly when…
