Did you know that if you do not follow up with prospective clients, connectors and even possible collaborators, that you can leave up to 80% of your sales on the table? And when you struggle and aren’t diligent with follow-up, you leave that prospect in the hands of competitors ready to turn your work into their sales success?

Aye yae yae – all the time and energy goes to setting things up for someone else’s timing.

The pace of your follow-up after any kind of meeting, speed networking or networking in general, should match both your style and your prospective customers. Everyone is unique. How do you know then whether the schedule might be monthly, quarterly or something else? How do you know what to include in your follow-up plan? Continue reading this post…

If you are following this Speed Networking blog post series, you’ll find most tips can be of help to any kind of networking, in-person, online, speed or otherwise. You may shiver in your shoes and find that pen quivering in your hands just thinking about the follow up. Let me put this out there my friends: don’t even BOTHER with the networking, speed or otherwise, if you don’t plan for a purposeful way of follow-up. You’re just behaving like a spinning top if you do so. Consider what you’ve done at any one event, before you scatter off to the next: Continue reading this post…

Guest blogger, Reno Lovison and I met on virtual online speed networking. As a published author of “Turn Your Business Card Into Business” we know he knows a thing or two about business cards for networking: Continue reading this post…

To build on a previous post, Are You Receiving with an Attitude of Gratitude?, Monique MacKinnon, Creativity Expert/Energetic Evolution and someone who I collaborate with online, has give us this mental challenge: Continue reading this post…