Comments on: Managing all Those Connections, How Do You Do It? http://www.runlancaster.com/blog/connections/managing-all-those-connections-how-do-you-do-it Netweaving Your Way to Your MBA (Massive Bank Account)! Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:36:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Social Bookmarks http://www.runlancaster.com/blog/connections/managing-all-those-connections-how-do-you-do-it/comment-page-1#comment-276 Social Bookmarks Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:17:11 +0000 http://www.runlancaster.com/blog/?p=9#comment-276 I love your thoughts! I normally don\'t even bother to leave comments, but I wanted to let you know that you hit the nail on the head! I love your thoughts! I normally don\’t even bother to leave comments, but I wanted to let you know that you hit the nail on the head!

]]> By: Carol Deckert http://www.runlancaster.com/blog/connections/managing-all-those-connections-how-do-you-do-it/comment-page-1#comment-80 Carol Deckert Wed, 28 May 2008 13:51:30 +0000 http://www.runlancaster.com/blog/?p=9#comment-80 Sandy, you certainly raise a good question. A group that is right for me, may not necessarily be right for you, and vice versa. The best advice I can give you is to join one that has members that target the same market that you do. Give yourself permission to test it for a month - but at the same time, be sure to participate - post your questions/answers and offer solutions. See how the others respond to you and how you feel about their postings. If it "feels" right, then it is the right group for you. This is one time your "gut" will lead you in the right direction! I would look for the activity within the group - high number of postings, something being discussed daily and how many people actually participate. Email the individuals that are the contributing members and try to get to know something about them. Ask them questions to find out what they do and to uncover if there is some way you can add value to their business, by an introduction, offering a new service that can use, etc. Something that will help make their lives easier. Offering to help is THE absolute best way to get to know, like and trust someone. When you do make an offer, follow it though and most importantly, follow up to see how that affected your new contact's life! Good luck - come back and post and let us know how this info helped you in your business! Sandy, you certainly raise a good question. A group that is right for me, may not necessarily be right for you, and vice versa. The best advice I can give you is to join one that has members that target the same market that you do. Give yourself permission to test it for a month – but at the same time, be sure to participate – post your questions/answers and offer solutions. See how the others respond to you and how you feel about their postings. If it “feels” right, then it is the right group for you. This is one time your “gut” will lead you in the right direction! I would look for the activity within the group – high number of postings, something being discussed daily and how many people actually participate. Email the individuals that are the contributing members and try to get to know something about them. Ask them questions to find out what they do and to uncover if there is some way you can add value to their business, by an introduction, offering a new service that can use, etc. Something that will help make their lives easier. Offering to help is THE absolute best way to get to know, like and trust someone. When you do make an offer, follow it though and most importantly, follow up to see how that affected your new contact’s life! Good luck – come back and post and let us know how this info helped you in your business!

]]> By: Katherine Reschke http://www.runlancaster.com/blog/connections/managing-all-those-connections-how-do-you-do-it/comment-page-1#comment-36 Katherine Reschke Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:36:43 +0000 http://www.runlancaster.com/blog/?p=9#comment-36 Carol, I love this message of avoiding overwhelm by being selective and realising we can only do what we can do. It is so easy to quickly become buried unless we learn to say "no" and to continually review what we are doing and drop what isn't work for us. Love the blog and am so grateful for all you have to teach us on networking. Carol, I love this message of avoiding overwhelm by being selective and realising we can only do what we can do. It is so easy to quickly become buried unless we learn to say “no” and to continually review what we are doing and drop what isn’t work for us. Love the blog and am so grateful for all you have to teach us on networking.

]]> By: Kristie http://www.runlancaster.com/blog/connections/managing-all-those-connections-how-do-you-do-it/comment-page-1#comment-29 Kristie Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:01:48 +0000 http://www.runlancaster.com/blog/?p=9#comment-29 Social netwroking can get a little crazy. I am always totally overwhelmed by how many posts some people manage to have time to type into Twitter, and I always wonder whether they ever get anything else done. Maybe that's because they aren't watching 3 kids while they work though. As for me, I'm trying to dedicate 1 day a week to updating profiles and checking in on my less interactive networking sites. I still need to get inot a more established routine with this though! -Kristie Social netwroking can get a little crazy. I am always totally overwhelmed by how many posts some people manage to have time to type into Twitter, and I always wonder whether they ever get anything else done. Maybe that’s because they aren’t watching 3 kids while they work though.

As for me, I’m trying to dedicate 1 day a week to updating profiles and checking in on my less interactive networking sites. I still need to get inot a more established routine with this though!

-Kristie

]]> By: Sandy Morgan, Independent Dist., Send Out Cards http://www.runlancaster.com/blog/connections/managing-all-those-connections-how-do-you-do-it/comment-page-1#comment-28 Sandy Morgan, Independent Dist., Send Out Cards Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:40:00 +0000 http://www.runlancaster.com/blog/?p=9#comment-28 Good advice Carol. One can waste an entire day getting back to all their Networking groups! I know because I have. How doe one know which Network is the right one? Good advice Carol. One can waste an entire day getting back to all their Networking groups! I know because I have.

How doe one know which Network is the right one?

]]> By: Laurie Millane, Millane Virtual Assistants, LLC http://www.runlancaster.com/blog/connections/managing-all-those-connections-how-do-you-do-it/comment-page-1#comment-27 Laurie Millane, Millane Virtual Assistants, LLC Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:55:21 +0000 http://www.runlancaster.com/blog/?p=9#comment-27 Carol, you hit the nail on the head. We tend to feel like we have to belong to so many social networks. We want to be everywhere everyone else is and it can get out of hand. You bring up an excellent point that we run into the same people in many different networking groups and that all it takes is one network. Sometimes we are so busy trying to keep up that we don't see the obvious. Thanks for helping me to see the light Carol. Carol, you hit the nail on the head. We tend to feel like we have to belong to so many social networks. We want to be everywhere everyone else is and it can get out of hand.
You bring up an excellent point that we run into the same people in many different networking groups and that all it takes is one network. Sometimes we are so busy trying to keep up that we don’t see the obvious.
Thanks for helping me to see the light Carol.

]]> By: DeAnna Troupe http://www.runlancaster.com/blog/connections/managing-all-those-connections-how-do-you-do-it/comment-page-1#comment-21 DeAnna Troupe Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:52:31 +0000 http://www.runlancaster.com/blog/?p=9#comment-21 Hey Carol, It was great to hear you on the call yesterday with Heidi. You had some great questions. I love this post, especially the part about you don't have to belong to every social networking site that exists. Great job! Hey Carol,
It was great to hear you on the call yesterday with Heidi. You had some great questions. I love this post, especially the part about you don’t have to belong to every social networking site that exists. Great job!

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