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The following points cover the basics for presenting contact
data online. They are practical points for building and
maintaining working relations both online and
in the real-world.
Savvy business networkers are already familiar with them and know
how to put them to use. They cover all that
any networker needs
to know in order to be successful
The resource on this page is a guide to essentials for successful business networking. Some tips for getting started with an introduction to someone with whom you may want to build a relationship are part of the answer to a question about social networking and the involvement of The Network. We advocate amicable networking in the real world whenever possible. Wiktionary states that proactive means ... acting in advance to deal with an expected change or difficulty. Proactive is the operative word at the end of outline of essentials for successful business networking. It's there to emphasize that you can't do what's suggested and wait to see what happens. The suggestions are not for creating successful advertising. An economic development marketing consultant surveyed business decision makers for several years to, essentially, verify that networking is their preferred means for gathering information, especially when it comes to enterprise development and site selection. The consulting
firm's survey reports
mentioned ... planned visits to corporate executives (were
productive activities and that) ... sixty-five percent
of (them) indicated a strong likelihood that they would use an
economic development organization’s website in their next site location
search If you are motivated to be proactive as a business networker online as well as in the real-world, and you fit the description of resource supplier or service provider as implied in the .network mission statement, here's a suggesting: Act now to take advantage of the free offer to become a mission contact. To zero in the opportunity, see the file: Contact Directories See Networking
Success Dierschke's article ends up telling about a positive results from a networking experience. One footnote is worth adding without taking away from her point on networking success, which is to emphasize how important followup can be. If you can imagine that building and maintaining relationships is like a two-mile hike up a hill and down, networking covers the climb. Followup strategy and implementation covers the down-hill hike. If success is to be expected, your not done until you've reached the end of the second mile. Call it prospect service or customer service, the key to excellence is followup, followup, followup (definition of followup). CLICK HERE for access to additional articles about proactive business networking. social contacts: ... individuals within a social network, especially those who maintain relationships with one another. Maintaining relationships include keeping in touch with family and friends. Another way to define social contact is to point out that it is brought about by encounters between people who know each other in a community ... regularly see and greet one another without necessarily doing business or working together. See the definition of social networking.
Remarks attributed to Ted
Levine, an economic development marketing advisor, in an October 2004 blog
named Economic
Development Futures Web Journal indicate that the best practitioners are,
first and foremost, skilled political players.
Levine also gave credit to those who are persistent in pursuing prospects,
are pro
business, and work behind the scenes for a sales force made up of volunteer
business leaders
Making changes in an economy with a view towards its long-term future requires a proactive leadership showing characteristics not unlike those of entrepreneurs. Being proactive means taking risks. When politicians take risks in making decisions they give opponents the opportunity to distract if not actually win over their fickle constituencies. Politicians pride themselves in their abilities to create alliances and arrange compromises rather than take risks. Alliances are generally made with special interest groups in position to help them maintain power and constituency acceptance. Politicians seek recognition for being involved in economic development.
They mostly rely on pork
barrel politics, sometimes throwing good money
after bad, for example, in situations where constituency workforces get
into trouble: Say, a labor-intensive industry
begins to loose market share to foreign
competition and needs to downsize to survive but organized
labor (a special
interest group) forces things to remain status quo through
political arrangements. No doubt, a short-sighted fix and may
very well bring down a whole economy in the long-run; nevertheless,
politicians like to be seen in the moment publicly supporting
job holders and their
organizations. No political and economic development model works without enterprise development. The mission statement for The Network gives recognition to the fact that enterprise development and its site selection component are absolutely essential for bringing about economic development in locations throughout the world. The Network has no political influence or connections.
Links for more thought provoking ideas: The key to self marketing is exposure .... (source) (Business connections) ... meeting the right people at the right time. (source) The most successful business owners also know how to network effectively. (source) business community: ... a group of enterprises recognized
as drawn together by a market, location or
situation of production and trade
... the interest and activities that encompass thinking and work done to make changes with an aim towards improvement. The interest and activities surrounding searches for places and real estate that can accommodate expansions, relocations, and new venture startups is referred to as site selection which is a process within the field of enterprise development. Site location work is one of the most important activities within the field of economic development. Site selection brings about economic development. Site selection is also a most important activity within the field of commercial and industrial real estate development. The Network operates within the field of enterprise and economic development.
... an observed or established plan
which guides an economic
development strategy as it is manipulated by politics or that
otherwise pertains to public policy, affairs of state or government
administration; a paradigm supporting an economic development effort
that acknowledges political involvement or control (for example
the western economic development model); a set of
assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of
politically controlling the economic
development process. For an example of how the expression
is used search the online reprint of an article
from Parameters journal titled: China
through Arab Eyes: American Influence in the Middle East. Use the
keywords political, economic, development and model to
create a search phrase at the top of this page, then query
the Web for more information about political and "economic development
model" (set phrases in quotation marks for advanced
search).
... that which has the attention
of a group devoted to advancing its own agenda. At AllAcademic.com the
expression is understood to mean that ones attention
is drawn to the structure or affairs of government or the state,
or politics pertaining
thereto. See the definition
of politician at BrainyQuote.com. There an explanation
of the term ties politician and statesperson together whereas the
latter is more likely than the first to apply wisdom and a concern
for
the public
interest in negotiating compromises. Politician
are recognized for the role they play in economic
development such that practitioners need to lobby them and maintain
their cooperation.
... a communal activity which establishes and maintains mutually agreeable relationships beyond that of meeting and greeting. It requires a desire for sociability. Social networking and business networking are two different things. The latter activity often involves the following considerations which are not typically of concern to those interested in establishing and maintaining relationships with social contacts. Savvy business networking requires (1) a respect for confidentiality, (2) a demeanor of professionalism in conduct, and (3) an ability to recognize situations where the environment is strictly business. See the answer to the question: Is www.findmehere.com a social networking website? The term social network was defined by J A Barnes in
the 1950s
... The western economic development model demands 'growth' to sustain valuations in the stock markets, and growth cannot be indefinite. A steady state economy in zero growth equilibrium would devastate the wealth of the west, since the financial models are predicated on growth ... (source of quote). The Network was once asked about the North American economic development model. Its answer mentions western economic development model.
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