Make A Referral Week – UPDATE!

Thanks for participating in Make a Referral Week
 
As of this writing we are at 600 referrals made – that’s an awesome number but there is still a lot of work to do to get to 1000.
 
* *  Here’s today’s tip for those who have made referrals – contact the folks you referred – tell them [...]

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International Make A Referral Week!

INTERNATIONAL MAKE-A-REFERRAL-WEEK! March 9 -13, 2009
Let’s face it, in the world of business – any business, it’s not who you know, it’s who knows you.
Ask any successful business owner how they got to be so successful and right up there at the top is effective networking.
Networking is the ability to expand your circle of influence [...]

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Contact Management Systems – What Do You Use?

Jim Sutton requested that I respond to his question about contact management systems in a blog post.  Jim, it is my pleasure to  try to explain how I use my contact mangement in my networking tasks.  First of all, I simply use MicroSoft Office Online Business Manager (version 2003).  Let’s begin with LinkedIn, as I am [...]

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Are You an Open Networker?

I am an Open Networker. What does that truly mean to me?  My mother taught me to never talk to strangers, but now that I’m a Networking Coach, I decided that strangers are friends that I have yet to meet. That’s why I am an Open Networker and I’m proud of it.
DO I accept [...]

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Make A Referral Week

Pledge your support of Make a Referral Week and your intention to make at least one referral during the week of March 9-13
Make a Referral Week is an entrepreneurial approach to stimulating the small business economy one referred business at a time. The goal for the week is to generate 1000 referred leads to [...]

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