The Secret to Effective One-on-One Networking Meetings
You finally got the meeting. 🎉You connected at the mixer. You followed up. You booked the Zoom. And now… you’re sitting there, staring at the screen (or across a table at Starbucks), thinking… “So… what now?” If your one-on-one meetings feel like awkward blind dates that lead nowhere, you’re not alone. Most people have never […]
Why Your Follow-Up Strategy is Killing Your Network (And How to Fix It)
If your calendar is full of networking calls but your business isn’t growing, your follow-up strategy might be the problem. In fact, I’d say 90% of missed opportunities in networking don’t happen during the event — they happen after it. That’s right. Your networking follow-up strategy may be slowly strangling your potential. But don’t worry. […]
Could you run a summit in a single hour?
Could you host an entire summit with only a single hour of your time? That’s a good question, and I’m glad you asked it. I offer a fully done-for-you summit running program. Unlike many other summit running programs, this one requires an absolute minimum of involvement from you in the planning phase. I set up […]
Build Community for Your Funeral, Not Your Financials
“My first business was wildly successful except for never making any money,” is something that you’ll often hear me say. That first business was Phoenix Games, and it created a robust and valuable community that was a great value for many of the people who were part of it. Ultimately that community was done in […]
Back From California With A Powerful New Community for Entrepreneurs
I am back from California, and this trip will go down as one of those that deliniates a moment of before and after. What’s that? It’s one of those events where it was sufficiently transformative that there is a distinct difference between the time before and the time after. Didn’t you come back like two […]
Business Advice From the Pulpit
Most days I send out a letter by email with some tips and resources. This is the one from July 19th, 2022. This past Sunday, I went to church as I often do on Sundays, and I was surprised to find that the lectionary reading echoed something that I’ve been saying on my Morning Motivation […]
Don’t Talk Past the Close
Most days I send out a letter by email with some tips and resources. This is the one from July 18th, 2022. Don’t talk past the close. I learned it when I did sales, and I saw the other side of it the other day as a networker. I was at a networking event, and […]
Networking Asks like a NINJA
Networking is about giving, but part of that is help others to give to you. That is what the networking ask is all about. In this article, I discussed the 5 levels of NINJA Networking. Now, let’s look at how these five levels respond to the question “Whom can I introduce you to?” “Give without […]
Five Steps to Learn the Secrets of NINJA Networking
Networking, Introductions, Non-Competitive Partners, Joint Ventures, Affiliates. Those are the five stages of Ninja Networking mastery, and they just so happen to spell NINJA. Actually, it’s not a coincidence. Realizing that “networking” and “ninja” started with the same letter, I decided to see if I could make a cool ninja networking acronym. And I did. […]
Katrina Sawa, Jumpstart Your Business – Interview #108
Katrina Sawa is the CEO and Founder of JumpstartYourBizNow.com. She is lovingly known as The JumpStart Your Biz Coach because she kicks her clients into high gear making more money doing what they love and fast. She is the creator of the JumpStart Your Marketing & Sales System, 10x International Best-Selling author with 16 books […]