Happy New Year folks – these are the networking events you’ll find me at in January 2019:   Friday 4th January – 4Networking Didcot Breakfast – https://www.4networking.biz/find-meetings/meeting//88844/ Tuesday 8th January – Business Buzz Witney with the wonderful Katrina – http://www.business-buzz.org/events/3580/business-buzz-witney/ Wednesday 9th January – 4Networking Witney Lunch – https://www.4networking.biz/find-meetings/meeting//89264/ Thursday 10th January – 4Networking Henley on Thames Lunch […]

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Over the last ten years I’ve attended over 1000 networking events, including over 100 in 2018 alone. I’ve also had the chance to work with hundreds of individual business owners, as well as some very big companies, to help either them or their teams sell more from their networking. I absolutely believe that networking should […]

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This afternoon I’ll be speaking at the Marketing Business Summit in Milan, Italy. This is a big deal for me, it is the first time I am speaking professionally outside the UK, and the organisers have rewarded me with an audience of over 500. I’ll be talking about business networking, of course, and I hope […]

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Over the last few years I have worked with a lot of sales people and sales teams throughout the UK and Europe. Very often, the sales people are excellent, generating their own leads and closing sales, but equally as often they suck at networking. If your sales team are making sales, but you know they […]

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When people ask me to coach them in networking skills and to help them get better results, they usually start out by expecting that we will just talk about networking. What they are often looking for, in my experience, is to become ‘better’ at networking in isolation. I’ve worked with hundreds and hundreds of people […]

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When was the last time you went to a networking because you wanted to be sold to? Do you check through the other attendees and make sure that you fit into their target market before you set off? Do you make sure to carry a purchase order along with your business cards, and take the […]

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Being on the team for any networking group or organisation is a huge opportunity.   I’ve just written some really specific advice for one of my 121 clients about how they can make best use of their membership of a networking team. And it prompted me to write some more general advice here.   In […]

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Ever wanted to get your 40 or 60 second introduction sorted, or know where to start with online video, or how to create a 4Sight which sells without being a sales pitch? We have three online webinars coming up to help you with all of the above. You can get involved in the live webinars […]

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