Networking is a lot like marketing in that one touch is almost never enough. If you're like me and have kids then you know that asking them to do something once is almost never enough. Apparently that doesn't change a whole heck of a lot as we get older... Just ask my wife. Read more »

This week's post is less about networking (although it still totally applies), and more about success in general. Maybe you've seen the path to success graph on the right before. If you haven't it probably looks, or even feels, awfully familiar. Rarely is success a straight line. That's what makes it feel so good to achieve, because too many people give up after only the first or second Loop de Loop. Read more »

For years I've wanted to come up with a set of metrics that could be used to measure the productivity of ones networking efforts. Read more »

So much of the attention put on networking is related to either growing a business/sales, or getting a new/better job. Very little attention is paid to the other benefits and reasons why you should be networking. This post may be particularly useful for those who think that there's no good reason for them to network since they already have a great job and don't work in any type of traditional sales capacity. Read more »