Tag Archive: linkedin

What do your contacts say about you?

I have a question for you: “Which people or companies do you publicly associate with?”

The reason I am asking you this, is that potential customers and clients often look at the people or businesses we associate with, as a short-cut to determining the kind of people WE are.

Trust and credibility can either be destroyed or boosted in seconds, depending on the individuals and companies we are aligned with or associate with…

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Quick networking tip!

I was just looking at a website, where the owner has a small banner, which pleads with total strangers to join his LinkedIn network.  I checked out his Twitter profile, and he's doing the same there too. It's actually a pretty common tactic among some businesspeople, who think it will help them develop their business. If they ...

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Owning a hammer doesn’t make you a carpenter!

Here's why so few people get the marketing results they want from social media tools like blogging, Twitter, FaceBook etc. If you wanted someone to make you a superbly crafted piece of handmade, wooden furniture, you would go to an experienced carpenter or cabinet maker.  You know that it takes training and dedication in order to ...

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Twitter photo shock from PhotoShop

We have all heard those stories, where someone has used PhotoShop to make themselves look younger, more handsome or thinner - right? Well, what I am about to share with you here is what I call photo-shock! It's the shock someone experiences when they meet someone for the first time, who they have previously only seen very ...

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The value of your network

If you are one of those dedicated people, who invests a lot of their time developing a network of contacts, I have a question for you: "How valuable to your business, (in financial terms), is your network of contacts?" I ask this because in my experience, many small businesses focus almost ...

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