Archive for 'business networking'

How Fast Should You Follow Up For Sales?

Slow sales follow-up is not better than no follow-up. You're going to get a decision back often in less time than it takes to blink. If you blink too long, a competitor can pick up where [...]

Introvert PTSD Perspective How To Feel Safe In The World

Recently I met Michele Rosenthal on LinkedIn. She is the founder of Heal My PTSD. It is an organization whose mission is to advocate for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) awareness, education, treatment and self-empowered healing support. [...]

Oldie, How to Care for Introverts, Becomes New Again

Just recently I joined joined Pinterest. With a nifty tool bar "Pin It" button, it is easy to add any kind of images, within copyright rules, for others on Pinterest to enjoy as well. What is [...]

How To Inspire Yourself: Use Quotations And Follow These Easy Steps

When spring has sprung it's just perfect that online social networking becomes "social." Maybe it's because I'm an introvert but one of my pet peeves online is when people connect with me and moments later, or [...]

Top Five Ways You Might Be Corrupting Your Online Networking Connections

Whether online social networking or local in-person networking events, one of the biggest mistakes that might keep you wondering, "why am I not getting any clients?" or "why am I not getting any job leads?" is [...]

The Secrets to Emailing Important People

The tips in this guest article are a perfect fit for anyone more introverted and at the stage in their career that connecting with, important people, is a win all the way around: These are great [...]

Introverts Can Open Doors with the Age of Social Media

Thanks to Roxana Núñez, the Procrastination Princess, another introvert perspective on how online social networking can open doors for even the most introverted of us. Consider her perspective on an experiment as research:   The world [...]

Rub Out Disengaged Twitter Followers and Find Unfollow Feedback

As a once reluctant, and still introvert marketer, one of my pet peeves happens as much in person as it does online. I call it, corrupt connections. For me it's an irritation and almost like that [...]

What’s Sex Got to Do with How You Network?

Networking is a skill, isn't it? It's made me so jaded I regularly act on "best practices." It's certainly not worthwhile for me to practice what I observe in most networking events because - they aren't [...]

5 Life Changing Experiences

Learning to relax, whether you are an introvert or extrovert, has benefits we might overlook just going day to day and doing, doing, doing. For a bit of a different spin on sales reluctance, and introverts, [...]