Articles tagged: Greg Peters

Column: How a cold-calling failure could lead to networking success

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Posted: Nov 11, 2012

My wife, Lisa, used to work for a small start-up company. Having few other employees, the powers that be of that firm assigned her tasks which ranged over a wide spectrum, from helping with the ... Read more »

Column: In networking groups, just attending isn't enough

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Posted: Nov 04, 2012

Becoming part of any social or business organization is a great way to accelerate your networking. You get to see the same people on a monthly or even weekly basis. You quite often share a ... Read more »

Column: Look to the wallflowers and make them special

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Posted: Oct 28, 2012

"Oh, him? He's no one special." As a networker and a human being, I'm not sure we could say something more calculated to cut someone to the core. Could you imagine someone thinking that about ... Read more »

Column: Referrals and birthday cakes

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Posted: Oct 21, 2012

Let's suppose you like cake. Oh, not just any cake. What you want is that deep chocolate cake with the chocolate chips baked into the batter. You don't want the buttercream frosting (except for the ... Read more »

Column: Breaking ineffective networking patterns

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Posted: Oct 14, 2012

"She was a drive-by card passer." This was how Mike, one of my buddies and networking contacts, referred to an experience at a recent networking event. He had been telling me about some challenging folks ... Read more »