Let’s be honest…this time of the year can be very stressful. Shopping, decorating, addressing greeting cards, hosting and attending parties, mailing gifts, studying for school finals, housing out of town family members and winding down your business for 2009 are all stressful activities. The fact that we’re expected to do them all simultaneously [...]

It was one of those business trips where I was going to have to be on four planes and deliver the opening keynote for a conference all within 24 hours.  In an effort to conserve energy, I hunkered down in the seat of my first flight, turned on my ipod, opened my computer and entered [...]

$948.00 was the annual dollar value of each person in your work email address book according to a recent IBM study published in the Winter Information Systems Conference in February 2009. In other words, this means that every contact in your database has the potential of making you at least $948.00!

IBM and MIT researchers were [...]

Unless you’ve just crawled out from under a rock, you have most likely heard about the new free micro-blogging sensation www.twitter.com .  Twitter is currently one of the fastest growing social network sites,  just behind Facebook and MySpace with over 55 million visitors per month.  

This whole phenomenon is based on the simple question, “what [...]

Think about a recent project, assignment or initiative you worked on over the past month. At some point you probably couldn’t find the information or resource you were looking for in the company knowledge database or on the internet so you picked up the phone, sent an email or got up and physically walked over [...]

With our economy in a recession and unemployment at the highest rate it’s been in over 16 years, there is no hiding from the fallout…we’re all feeling it. However, there is a silver lining in this dark cloud we’re all sitting under. There has never been a better time to invest in growing your network [...]

Holiday season is a great time to expand your network and grow your netWORTH.

I hope this message gives you some new ideas if you’re in a career transition, wanting to grow your business, or hoping to meet some new friends.

If you found this helpful please post a comment. We’d love to hear about your holiday [...]

With our nation’s unemployment rate at 6.5 percent and the number of unemployed people reaching over 10 million this month, chances are you or someone you know has been affected by our current economic situation.

No matter what business or industry you’re in, I know you have to be feeling it. Have you been in a [...]

As I have traveled around the country speaking to people about the power of netWORTHing™ one thing has become clear; people are looking for a change!  People have a lot of pain around traditional self-serving networking.   Everyone has been burned by someone who in the name of networking, is only pursuing their own selfish [...]

Have you ever been a victim of a network drive-by?  Or, have you ever been violated by people claiming to be networking but are just out for themselves and what you can do for them?  If you’ve been left with a bad taste in your mouth for networking and think it’s just for blood sucking [...]