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I lost it big time this week. As a company, we've invested in Infusionsoft and I've been looking forward to it for a while now ...
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I met with one of my referral marketing partners Andy Mee, from Business Doctors this week. We're planning to run a seminar together ...
View ArticleNetworking Tips: Don't Sell To The Room, Ask For Help Instead
There are many great networking tips I could share with you and today, I want to talk about not selling to the room ...
View ArticleThere's More Than One Way To Skin A Cat
There's more than one way to skin a cat doesn't involve hurting kittens, but is to do with getting valuable feedback from workshops ...
View ArticleI Don't Need Any More Work At Present!
It's a vindication that your marketing is working, yet it is a dangerous place to be and a crazy thing to say in your business network ...
View ArticleManaging Mistakes By Being Assertive
I was listening to Jo Pogson give a short presentation on being assertive the other day. It really struck a chord with me ...
View ArticleStand Out From The Crowd: Be A Specialist
As you can imagine, I go to a lot of networking events and I rarely go to one where there isn't at least one accountant ...
View ArticleBuilding A Referral Relationship
It's Friday morning and I'm knee deep in follow-up phone calls from my Referral Masterclass last Wednesday ...
View ArticleMusings On Strategy: Marshalling Your Resources
Some time ago, when I was first learning about business strategy, Mike Burdett gave me a definition of strategy ...
View ArticleBusiness Networking: No Pressure To Refer
I'm always fascinated by business networking groups who insist one of their main benefits is no pressure to refer ...
View ArticleCollaboration: Working With The Enemy
I was watching Drew Pritchard of Salvage Hunters fame on television the other evening and I got to thinking about collaboration ...
View ArticleCoping With Change You Don't Want
As an ex-nurse, I am well aware of the side effects of chemotherapy. I've witnessed it many times, but now it's become personal ...
View Article3 Top Tips When Asking For Advice
Many of us are in the business of giving advice. It's how we earn our living as consultants, trainers and coaches ...
View ArticleCo-incidence Or A Referral Community In Action?
I love true stories. I particularly love stories my referral community tell me that demonstrate the power of our collective actions ...
View ArticleDesign For Trust: Overcoming Your Stranger-Danger Bias
According to Airbnb, most people are trustworthy, we just don't know it yet so we need to design for trust ...
View ArticleWorking with the Referral Institute
It was a big decision when I decided to buy a franchise in the Referral Institute, but I was already a client ...
View ArticleSo You Really Hate Networking?
If you mean you hate networking in the sense of going to a breakfast or lunchtime networking group meeting then don't go ...
View ArticleThe Two Reasons Your Referral Network Is Asleep
I'm in the process of reviewing who is in my close referral network from the thousands of people I have in my database ...
View ArticleLet's Look At Things Through The Round Window
If you grew up in Britain in the 60s, 70s and 80s, the words ''through the round window'' will take you back to your childhood ...
View ArticleFor Those Times When Life Sucks
The deaths of Victoria Wood and Prince has stirred a lot of comments about an unusually high rate of celebrity deaths in 2016 ...
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