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Building Your Network

Ian's Messy Desk

Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap Building Your Network Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on July 14, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. The starting point in this process is to develop a deliberate and systematic approach to networking throughout your career. Thanks for visiting!

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Website launch: What I learned about building the world’s best blog

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

A mentor or role model acts like a compass during times of challenge, change and uncertainty. I attend industry events and network to win consulting contracts that let me do the work I love. Having a killer blog design and two breakthrough ebooks is just the beginning. James Chartrand taught me to levitate X-wings.

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Three Ways to Start a Revolution | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Our parents, our mentors, our employers talked with us. I firmly believe in charging for quality content; for me, ebooks and followup series work great. You may get your ebooks for free but you will have to pay $300 per hour to have a plumber come to your house. Ebooks aren’t a zero marginal cost product.

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Should You Go Back to School? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

I have ebooks on marketing. I have a few small business people that I have met networking. Mentoring and collaboration are very important for that, even if it means taking the next step and hiring a consultant. It All Begins with Textbooks… Don’t run off yet. It’s about to get really fun. I have books on marketing. I blog swap.

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Why Freelancers Need a Consultant | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

So they try to be do-it-yourselfers, learning from blogs, ebooks, and other sources of free information. Here’s the link if you wanna read it: [link] Reply Melinda | SuperWAHM ( @Superwahm1 ) March 16, 2010 at 4:56 am Coaching and Consulting are two different creatures – and mentoring is yet another.

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How To Make An Impression in 25 Different Ways

Brilliantly Better

If you are great at computer networking, and continually work at building up your computer networking experience and knowledge, there are people who will be impressed more and more by your consistency. Stay Consistent In A Skill/Activity Of Yours This one is a continually impressive item.

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Free Blog Posts | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Set aside the services we offer, strip away the great ebooks, the recommended resources, everything but the content. Alas, in many cases…bloggers aren’t yet up to that level, so they compile their best ideas into ebooks that they either a.) I think we are already seeing ebooks move to free. What do you have?

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