When people are getting ready to host an event, is your event planning business on their radar, or are they too focused on doing things themselves to even think about you?
While many people are aware that event planning businesses exist, they aren’t necessarily aware of why it’s important to hire one.
Some believe it would be cheaper to handle things themselves, others may have an “if you want it done right, you have to do it yourself” mindset, and others simply don’t know what aspects of the event you can handle or why it’s better to have you do it.
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Building a coaching practice in Pittsburgh can be both rewarding and highly challenging. I know, because I built one over the last five years.
You know that you can change your clients’ lives by helping them to build loving relationships, lucrative and fulfilling businesses or careers, the daily lifestyle of their dreams, vibrant health, and much more.
But just because YOU know how big a difference your coaching can make, that doesn’t mean your potential clients share that knowledge, or that they’re ready to pay for your services the first time they meet you.
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Grow a photography business? I know you just want to take pictures who said anything about making it a business. Well, that is what it takes to make a living from it. If you want to grow a photography business or videography business in Pittsburgh, there’s a variety of challenges to overcome and opportunities to take advantage of.
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Some business owners believe that one or two strategies will bring them all the customers they need. They think if they advertise in the right places, post in the right social media sites, or have a good enough website, the clients will come and stay.
What they often don’t realize is that this mindset is likely costing them thousands or even millions of dollars each year!
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Chamber of Commerce – If you already go to BNI, should you also attend Chamber of Commerce meetings to grow your business?
According to BNI founder Ivan Misner, absolutely! Many Chambers of Commerce have a broader scope in what they do than BNI does, and they offer a wide and valuable range of services, so attending the Chamber can be an invaluable complement for your BNI networking efforts.
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Networking mistakes – One of the biggest problems in business networking is what BNI founder Ivan Misner calls the “networking disconnect”. This disconnect can be demonstrated by a simple show of hands.
If you go to a networking event and ask, “How many of you are hoping to sell something?”, almost everyone will raise their hand.
But if you ask that exact same audience how many of them are there to buy something, it’s extremely rare for even a single hand to rise.
All too often, people go to networking events wanting to sell something, but they’re surrounded by people who are completely uninterested in buying. This is an example of networking done badly.
In fact, it’s the reason why a major business venue once published an article called “Stop Networking”.
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Life plan? Do you have a clear and specific life plan for where you want your life to go and what you want to do with it, or are you just “going with the flow” and hoping things turn out OK?
Today, I’m going to share a story that BNI’s founder, Ivan Misner, told about the life plan he created, and how it helped him to become the founder of one of the most successful and influential networking organizations in the world.
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Networking follow-up – do you have a pocket full of business cards, and not enough time to contact all of their owners?
If you attend networking events, the chances are good that you’ll encounter this problem sooner or later. You’ll have more contacts than you have time to follow up with them, and you’re going to need to make some choices about how to spend your follow-up time in the way that’s best for your business.
Today, I’m going to share four strategies you can use to choose the best people with whom to follow up, and to make yourself stand out from the other people they met at the event, so you can get the greatest value out of your networking efforts.
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Business Leads – If you want to consistently attract clients, grow your business, and maximize your wealth and impact on the world, you can’t restrict your networking efforts to networking events. And even though we talk about getting qualified referrals from our referral partners getting business leads is key for every business.
At the same time, you don’t want to be the person who’s always pushing your product at other people, even when the event isn’t supposed to be about you and your business, but this does not stop you from turning in your interactions with people as a way of qualifying them as potential business leads.
In today’s blog post, I’m going to explore how you can network and form valuable connections at ANY event, without seeming pushy, obnoxious, salesy or self-centered. I am also going to show you how to create a list of new business leads as you do so.
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So you just got home from a networking event, and you have a pocket full of contact information from potential referral partners, mentors, teammates and clients.
You hang up your jacket, pick up your phone… and, if you’re like many entrepreneurs I know, you fall right back into your daily routine, often without building any lasting connections between you and the valuable contacts you just made.
You spent all the time, effort and money to go to the event… but now you have nothing to show for it!
