Share Your Networking Story in My New Book - Deadline: Feb 25

Thanks for taking the time to visit. I’m excited that you’re considering becoming part of my first commercially published book!

I already have most of the book written, but I'd like to include a few in-the-trenches lessons from my network and loyal blog and ezine readers. This is a great opportunity for you to market yourself to thousands, and hopefully millions, of people all over the world. My way of saying thanks for your support and sharing the love ;-)

Here’s where I could use your help…

I’m looking for concrete examples of success or failure in any realm of business networking, whether in person or online. I’m defining business networking as the process of building and maintaining relationships to grow your business, win more customers, or advance your career.

I'm looking for stories in the following areas, but if your story doesn't fit any of these six, send it along anyway. You never know!

• What networking strategies, tools, technologies, and resources etc. do you use, how do you use them, and how have they helped you?
• What remarkable ways do you connect with people, follow up with them, or keep in touch?
• What amazing things has your network helped you achieve?
• How have you helped the people in your network reach their goals?
• When did networking not work? What do you think went wrong?
• Did you ever have an aversion to networking? What did you do to get over it, and what have you been able to achieve because of it?

I’m most interested in unique approaches, and not another tip about joining your local chamber of commerce or BNI group. Nothing against either of course, but most people have heard this advice before. However, if you have an unusual way of networking within these groups, then send it in!

And keep in mind that while opinion is great, I know our readers are going to want to hear about your results. If you say that Twitter is an awesome tool for networking, give us a specific example of how it helped you get business or achieve a goal.

Okay, here are the instructions, please follow them carefully…

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

All submissions must be original (no previously published work) and include the following info, including the permissions paragraph written as is:

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Networking Lesson
By [your name], [your profession or title]
[optional company name]
[your city, state or if outside the U.S., your city, country]
[your website address]
[your email address]
[your telephone number]

I hereby provide Liz Lynch and the Center for Networking Excellence with permission to use this item, to edit it for length, style and grammar, and to publish it in her book on networking without restriction or compensation due me.

[your submission in no more than 250 words]

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ADDITIONAL INFO

Any submissions without complete information cannot be used. Deadline for all submissions is midnight eastern time, Monday, February 25.

Email your submissions to: info@NetworkingExcellence.com
Subject Line: Submission for Networking Book

Please write your submission in the body of your email and DO NOT include an attachment. Because of the limited number of slots available, inclusion in the book is not guaranteed.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

p.s. If you'd like to keep posted on the progress of the book or be notified of special offers and events around the launch of it (I'm planning a lot of cool stuff and would love to have you involved), subscribe to the feed of this blog by typing your email address in the yellow box on the upper right hand side of this page, and press "Subscribe me!" Or use one of the other feed reader options provided.

Comments

[chris jones]

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