Who Loves Networking????Written by Dorene Lehavi
Many professionals who don’t enjoy networking equate it with selling. I have heard many say, I’m a professional. I didn’t go to school to learn to sell and they didn’t teach it. It is a common belief that in order to get new clients professionals need to make cold calls and do other activities they find distasteful and uncomfortable. It would be helpful and probably a relief to understand that networking is a different story. The purpose of a good network is much more than a basis for getting new clients. A network of connections, which has been built over time, is a source for many things, such as career management in general, a resource for information and even valuable friendships. It is not an overnight way to get new clients. It is a support system for long run. The main feature of a good network is that it is mutually beneficial. Did you ever put two people in touch for something helpful to both of them? Did you ever recommend a restaurant to someone? Those are examples of networking. Despite way it is commonly done, networking is not about elevator speeches, nor an exchange of business cards in hope recipient will become or refer a client. Networking is a sincere interest in learning and understanding needs of someone else with purpose of you being able to help them now or in future with a referral, some information or other helpful gesture. Obviously you hope for reciprocity.
| | Public Domain – The Internet GoldmineWritten by Eric Wichman
With advent of internet and ease of which information can readily be downloaded and compiled you would think that more people would realize that public domain is a source of wonderful wealth that can be tapped into for huge profits.I have spent last 4 years “discovering” little known secrets of this information that is readily available to those who know where to look. Or should I say “prospect”. That’s exactly what it is. It’s Mining. When you mine internet, you are not mining little rocks in a quarry or dredging a cold river looking for that elusive nugget of gold. You are searching for gold of future, and of past. Information becomes your ore. You now become an information prospector. A “Millennium-Age Gold Miner.” The tools of your trade are much different today than in days of old. Your “pick-axe” has evolved into your mouse, and your “gold pan” is your hard drive. Your computer is dredge and your internet connection is your “claim”. In old days when a prospector found gold he would drive a stake in ground and this would become his claim. You are doing same thing when you sign contract for your internet connection. You are staking a claim to largest source of wealth in world. Public Domain Information. You transcend boundaries of physical world by entering a realm in which it is possible to find riches in deepest recesses and crevices of web. The public domain is undiscovered country of information age. It’s mysteries are deep as oceans and it’s knowledge as expansive as universe. The public domain now becomes ultimate natural resource. Information has always reigned king since beginning of time. There are millions of us who know not sheer power and value of information that is freely available to anyone who knows where to look.
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