By Carina Claire Jeppesen A few of the things you can achieve just through your Twitter network include getting new contacts, new job offers, and collaborations with other business owners. However, before you start networking with other users and gaining new followers, here are a few tips on how to use Twitter for business and personal branding. Remember the social part - Social media is all too often an easy way to post things without actually engaging with people. Remember that you are having conversations with people (even large organizations have real people behind their Twitter accounts). Compliments, comments and engaging dialogue with your followers, or potential … Continue reading
6 Tips on How to Use Twitter for Business
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Networking – Beyond The Basics
Once you have mastered the basics of Networking, what else can you do? Start to move further out of your comfort zone. Try writing an article for a relevant magazine or the relevant section in your local paper. You are then a published author and you can refer to it in conversation. Mail copies to your contacts. Look for and join a networking group – you’ll be able to practice your Personal Presentation and expand your network further. Make sure your website is current and up to date. New business contacts will ‘check you out’ via the internet. If you are telling your potential customers … Continue reading
Busting Networking’s Biggest Myths
(NAPSI)-Networking, the art of cultivating relationships in the business community, has drawn more attention and dialogue than perhaps any other crucial aspect of conducting business over the last 20 years, and yet is surprisingly not taught in colleges and universities. Moreover, so much “advice” is batted about that it’s often difficult for the average small-business owner or sales professional to determine just how much of what’s been said about networking is fact and how much is myth. But there is good news for the utterly confused. A new book, “Truth or Delusion? Busting Networking’s Biggest Myths” (Nelson Business) by authors Ivan Misner, Ph.D., Mike Macedonio … Continue reading
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