Magician Matthew Versteeg shared a simple magic trick using business cards with me that anyone can learn (with a bit of practice, and maybe a sprinkling of fairy dust thrown in???)
Perhaps the idea sounds a bit silly to you - after all, how many times have YOU seen a colleague doing a magic trick with [...]
A continuation of my previous post, “What the Heck is a Catalog of Referrals“.
I ended by asking why anyone would admit they couldn’t help a potential customer and give business away by referring them to someone else.
The answer is aptly summed up in several adages:
What goes around, comes around.
Do unto others as you would have [...]
The best networkers almost instinctively, it seems, keep a list - a directory, you might say - of companies, individuals, service providers, vendors, and so on - who provide products and services related to their own product or service. They refer to this directory when they themselves cannot help a customer or prospect fill a need [...]
I just discovered Dani Johnson today after someone mentioned her on a discussion forum I frequent. Just a quick scan of her site really impressed me - as her headline does: “Raised on Welfare, Pregnant at 17, Homeless at 21… and a MILLIONAIRE by age 23!”
So I’m going to look around a bit to learn more [...]
February 02, 2008 
