by Sophie Jewry | Oct 13, 2013 | Branding, Business, Marketing, Networking
Well, most of the Halloween work I’ve done this year was finished and off to print a couple of months ago but there’s still time to give your brand a bit of a boost before the Christmas season kicks in with full force and you can certainly have a bit of...
by Sophie Jewry | Oct 11, 2013 | Networking
Plan Time at the end of the event for unplanned conversations and networking. Often a networking meeting will be booked in the diary and followed by rushing off to work, bed or another meeting, but it’s great to plan in a little extra time in your diary after...
by Sophie Jewry | Oct 10, 2013 | Networking
Lots of people visit networking events and try to hand out as many cards as possible, and this is fine, but it does mean that you are giving all of the control of the follow-up to the receiver and you’re left waiting for them to get in touch… Sometimes...
by Sophie Jewry | Sep 13, 2013 | Business, Networking
This is important in business anyway but still deserves a mention here. Quite often, when networking, attendees will ‘test the water’ with breadcrumb enquiries for either themselves or for one of their contacts, on the basis that if you do a great job on a...
by Sophie Jewry | Aug 28, 2013 | Business, Networking
If I don’t know you, haven’t spoken to you and yet get an impersonal sales email from you after you picked up my card at a networking event then I’m not likely to do business with you. Simples. There’s no faster way of getting black listed on...
by Sophie Jewry | Aug 24, 2013 | Business, Networking
It’s pretty obvious when someone is going through the motions when you’re speaking to them, not listening to a word you’re saying and it’s never a big confidence boost. Yet it doesn’t take much effort to tune in and actually hold a...