Networking
What Business Wellbeing Means To Me?
We recently had a discussion at my networking group, The Business Wellbeing Club, about how to build the membership and how to make it appeal to people. This got me thinking about what is Business Wellbeing – at least what is business wellbeing to me? One of the crucial things about the Business Wellbeing Club…
Read MoreThe Simple Rules of Business Networking
I have been business networking now for over 20 years, starting in the Scottish Borders with Contact, a group for women in Business back in the late 1990s. I have always found networking enjoyable and worthwhile, but you do have to choose what is right for you.
Read MoreHow do You View Your Competitors?
As somebody who is a bit of a sports fanatic, I am always interested with how business owners view their competition. In sport clearly competition is good, partly because otherwise it wouldn’t be entertaining, but also because it actually improves the players. Men’s tennis over the last 20 years or so has been a fine…
Read MoreWhat Should be on My Business Card?
I see a lot of business cards. I network, so I receive a lot and I offer a service that inputs info from business cards onto contact management systems. Some of them make me think “Wow,” some make me cringe, some make me search for my glasses. Your business card is important. If you go…
Read More4 Ways to Support Local Businesses on Social Media
We all want local businesses to do well. Something that is increasingly important is to support local businesses on social media. Online platforms are all about connection and engagement with an audience. Algorithms mean that a simple ‘follow’ or ‘like’ won’t do much to increase the visibility of the business that you want to…
Read MoreWhy My Business is Like parkrun
On Saturday the 12th September I will be lining up at The Knavesmire in York to run my 100th parkrun. I will be joined by family, friends from the running community and friends I’ve made through business. There will be cake! For those of you who don’t know what parkrun is here is a quote…
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