People Become Tweeple at Brad­ford Seminar

To a packed room of local busi­ness people includ­ing rep­res­ent­at­ives from Busi­ness Link, I delivered the first of my sem­inars on the sub­ject of “Using Twit­ter for Busi­ness” at Action for Busi­ness’ offices in Brad­ford yes­ter­day after­noon.
Run by Brad­ford Grid the event was aimed at small busi­ness own­ers who were inquis­it­ive about the micro-blogging phenomenon […]

Put Your Mes­sage to the ‘So What?’ Test

If you’re like most small busi­nesses today, you will have tried sev­eral ways of telling people about your busi­ness at least to some degree either at a net­work­ing event, on an advert, mailshot, email blast etc …
You may have even exper­i­enced some suc­cesses now and again.
But are you able to make it work con­sist­ently for your […]

This Net­work­ing Malar­key is Kid’s Stuff! Not!

Thrust into a room full of enthu­si­astic teen­agers was one of my more unnerv­ing exper­i­ences this week. How­ever I sur­vived unscathed enough to Blog the tale.
This week I was invited by Young Enter­prise in Brad­ford to attend a busi­ness net­work­ing event with a ‘dif­fer­ence’.
Young Enter­prise is a York­shire and Hum­ber­side based char­ity that brings young people […]

Little Known Ways to Get Refer­rals for Your Net­work­ing Peers

How to encour­age the mem­bers of your weekly or fort­nighly net­work­ing group to recom­mend your busi­ness to oth­ers and vice versa.
Pre­pare the Way For­ward
Before I start, here are some ground rules that each mem­ber of the group should adopt:

Get to know the busi­nesses of your fel­low group mem­bers through One-2-Ones or even by test­ing their products/services […]

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