Networking

Microsoft is Buying Linkedin

April 13, 2016 ♦

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Linkedin Being Purchased for $26 Billion Microsoft has lunged back into relevance online with the purchase of Linkedin – the huge professional networking platform with 343 million members, just like you. Microsoft couldn’t resist Linkedin’s incredible performance stats of 19% year over year growth. Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft made the…

Power Networking with Linkedin

August 3, 2015 ♦

Business Strategies, Career, Entrepreneurship, Networking, Self-Improvement, Strategy, Value Proposition, Work

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Start Your Linkedin Strategy the Right Way Meeting the right people is critical to success in any endeavour and in our era, connecting is done online via Linkedin. Linkedin has a vast group of link minded professionals, who you may do business with at some point. The key to success in…

Powerful Promotion: Reaching Influencers

December 14, 2014 ♦

Business Strategies, Marketing, Networking, Social Media, Value Proposition

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It might as well as be one of the golden rules of sustainable business: The fact that you must get others to promote your business. Finding influential people and developing relationships with them is an undervalued job. Formerly known as public relations, it might be called influence strategy today and given the reach…

Your Business Development Strategy – A Simple Process

September 19, 2014 ♦

Business Strategies, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Networking, Prospecting, Strategy

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Every Millionaire was Once Where you are Now Is it real tough to get your business development process going? It is tough, especially for small business. Richard Branson, Larry Page, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and others you know were at this point long ago. What they had was a mission…

Dreamers and Directors – Discover a Powerful Partnership (revised)

August 27, 2014 ♦

Entrepreneurship, Networking, Relationships

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Identify and then Compensate for your Weaknesses If you’re an entrepreneur, you should know what your strengths and weaknesses are. Maybe you’re taking courses or psychotherapy or something to try to fix your weaknesses and failings. And then you discover that you can’t do much to alter your basic makeup or…

The Growth of Social Media

August 20, 2014 ♦

Business Strategies, Career, Entrepreneurship, Networking, Prospecting, Social Media, Strategy

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And then you must use it really well. I’ve just been thinking about how much more time I spend on Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Youtube, and other social sites and I realized I don’t do as much searching with Google anymore. The reason for that is undoubtedly that content on social…

Twitter Tips – Taking it to the Next Level

August 12, 2014 ♦

Career, Entrepreneurship, Networking, Relationships, Self-Improvement, Social Media, Work

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There’s Lots of Ways to Make Twitter more Effective Twitter has had its 8th birthday this year and it’s still going strong. It’s the top microblogging platform and millions of businesses use it. Whether they use it well is another matter. It can be a great way to connect with…

Crowd Funding — Lifting Gen Y’s Entrepreneurial Spirit

March 23, 2014 ♦

Career, Entrepreneurship, Networking, Work

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One thing that has absolutely changed from 20 to 30 years ago, is access to credit. Easy credit encourages and even enables entrepreneurs to take chances. Getting funding from banks has and always will be impossible, because banks aren’t about profit, they’re about risk management. Banks have it easy. They…

Prospecting: Choose Your Customers Wisely

March 23, 2014 ♦

Entrepreneurship, Networking, Relationships, Self-Improvement, Work

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Years ago, launching my first startup, an Internet marketing consulting business, I targeted top notch International clients (not Canadian). Yes, an amateur, but for my first business, it was a fairly decent success. I did what I was passionate about with a vision of the CEO/CMO I wanted to attract.…

Generation Y – Positives and Negatives (updated)

March 13, 2014 ♦

Entrepreneurship, Networking, Relationships

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Gen Y and Their Marriage to Technology isn’t all what it seems Generation Y will make up a big chunk of the employed population and very soon they’ll shape our work environment. Researchers are gathering more insight into this generation. I’ll have a series of posts on Gen Y. Their…