I recently arrived at a meeting only to be told it had been cancelled (see our previous rant about meeting etiquette here, so as I headed out of the car park I handed my parking ticket to someone who was just arriving. Is this illegal? If so, let’s just say it was a hypothetical car […]

“I’m not a salesperson…..” This must be the thing we hear more often than else! “Good” we say, “that’ll help”. Regular readers will know that we think that many of us have sales habits and perceptions which we need to shed in order to improve how we bring income into our organisations. However, it still […]

Further to our recent posts about lateness click here we’ve had lots of feedback from people about their pet peeves when it comes to meeting etiquette. So, aside from lateness (which a lot of you hate), here are some other faux pas which got multiple mentions and which struck a chord with us; 1. Repeated rescheduling […]

Networking works, but it takes practice and for some people can be an utterly terrifying prospect. If networking is something which you find daunting, you may find a product-based approach easier to begin with. Some networks are very expensive; others are free or vary low cost. Consider being part of several with clearly defined objectives […]

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Hello there, we don’t usually use this blog to talk about what’s happening with us, but we’ve just found out that we’ve been nominated for an award, and as we are a bit giddy, thought we’d share. A huge thank you to our lovely client Jo Belfield Photography, who nominated us!

Having blogged last time about reasons why you might not want to share every rant, detail and weakness with your network of contacts, we wanted to provide a slightly alternative approach on when this approach can work really well. You don’t have to network much before you start to notice that cobblers’ children are the […]