part 2

Online and face-to-face networking options explored

‘In terms of business networking groups, I look at networks and I say they achieve one of four things. They are either there to increase your profile, build your community, help you equip yourself better or help you generate referrals.’

Andy Lopata, co-author of ...And Death Came Third!

There are a myriad of face-to-face and online networking options available to the professional today. However, when you are networking, you are doing one or more of the following things:

  • increasing your profile
  • helping you learn, find answers and tools to your problems
  • generating referrals
  • assisting you to build a community of like-minded people.

In the next three chapters we are going to look at all ...

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