As business networking experts, we have surveyed our audiences and readers about the top challenges they have when networking in the face-to-face world. And that world is opening up post pandemic! These are actual comments about networking challenges from our audiences, as well as our solutions. Here they are, in order of importance, starting with […]
Is it time to start re-establishing your network? Writer Tobias Stone says that post-pandemic more meetings and business networking will be happening over the sharing of food because “that’s how people bond”. While having lunch (or dinner) with someone is one of best ways to build rapport and network it can be a challenge—how to […]
Our experience after decades of teaching business networking is that the world really has a problem with business cards. Perhaps it’s not business cards per se but the act of giving out business cards. People tell us they feel like they’re foisting their card on the other person. It seems kind of pushy, kind of sales-y, […]
Life gets busy and then a year goes by, maybe two or three and you realize you’ve lost touch with much of your network. It happens to all of us. We slip into the habit of interacting with our strong ties only, those who are nearest to us – friends and family, close business associates […]
As expert networkers, people often ask us for our best networking tips to help ensure their networking success. In part 1 of this series, we introduced our format where we mentioned that we decided to ask our audiences to give us some ideas, in addition to adding many of our own. Part 2 of this […]
As expert networkers, people often ask us for the best places to network to help ensure their networking success. In the spirit of discovering what you can do for others, we’re sharing our ideas, along with those we have received from our audiences over the years. The following blog article is a comprehensive list that […]
One of the most common reasons people tell us that they don’t like networking is because of a fear of small talk. But guess what? You don’t have anything to fear. Even if you’re an introvert who’s networking! In this blog post, we’ll discuss our top 12 small talk and networking tips for introverts specifically, […]
One of the first questions you might be asking yourself when you think about business networking best practices is, HOW to network. And that’s fair, because there’s many things that people think networking is that it actually isn’t. To start off our new blog series entitled “how to network”, we’ll begin with reviewing our business […]
One of the most common questions our networking speaker team at Shepa Learning is asked during our live sessions is “What are your top networking and conversation tips?” Because of this, we thought it would be helpful to put together a list of our top 10 networking and conversation tips for you, our readers, to […]