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How to Find and Win More Clients as a Home Business Owner

Tips From T. Marie

Attend Networking Events If you’re inwardly groaning reading this one, you’re not alone. I am not a social butterfly and networking events are literally what my nightmares are made of. Be sure to bring business cards and have a brief, clear elevator explanation you can give of your services.

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Productive Networking: 22 Ideas to Organize Business Cards for Effective Followup

Stephanie LH Calahan

" That is what a recent client told me when I opened a drawer in her office and found it filled with business cards. The cards had been collected over a year or so of miscellaneous networking events and trade shows.  Business Cards. A pile of business cards is simply clutter.

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Who Needs an Office? 10 Entrepreneurs Weigh In on the Future of Virtual Work

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Gerber, 38, now a serial entrepreneur and author of Superconnector: Stop Networking and Start Building Business Relationships that Matter , published in 2018, has become an evangelist for entrepreneurship, particularly for resourceful young go-getters who may not be cut out for life as cubicle dwellers.

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I Want Some Business Cards

Catch Friday

I met Ian Hendry the brains and owner behind the networking platform WE CAN DO BIZ at a Business Scene Event in Datchet near Heathrow Airport. If you want to successfully network with people, you cannot expect to sell to them directly with out some form of collaboration and referral. Catch Friday Media.

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How I Learned to Love Selling (and How You Can Too)

Success

I can’t tell you how much of my time used to be spent on customers who purchased a $5 or $10 service and immediately became a squeaky wheel. Back in the days when I bought into the hyperbole of The Hustle™, I went to a lot of networking meetups. To illustrate, imagine a time when you purchased a product and had buyers’ remorse.

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Make the Most of Your Business Downtime This Summer

Step It Up VA Coaching

Call those folks you met at your last networking event. Go through the business cards you collected and follow up. Reconnect with business associates and former clients. Read those business books you purchased ages ago but haven’t had a chance to read. Go through those business magazines.

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Make the Most of Your Business Downtime This Summer

Step It Up VA Coaching

Call those folks you met at your last networking event. Go through the business cards you collected and follow up. Reconnect with business associates and former clients. Read those business books you purchased ages ago but haven’t had a chance to read. Go through those business magazines.