Posts Tagged ‘Connections’

35 Things You Can Do To Have Better One-To-One Meetings

Anymore, I’m selective with the meet-ups and events I attend locally.  I have to be.  However, things out of my own backyard are a different story since I don’t know most of the folks there. I do enjoy going the local events, but time is a scarce resource and I’m forced to limit myself to 5-7 face-to-face meetings per week.  My networking plan, at a relatively high level, looks something like this: Attend larger events to meet new people Use social networks to scout people before those events and stay in touch afterward As much as time and location permits, meet as many of these folks as possible in a one-to-one setting Why does one-to-one matter?  Honestly, the answer to this question could be an entirely separate blog post.  But let me sum it up in a few brief bullets: Real trust is built with one-to-one human connections and undivided attention Some studies suggest that up to 93% of what we communicate happens via non-verbal queues (which also happens frequently in one-to-one conversations) One-to-one meetings help to lay the foundation of context for deeper relationships We, as humans, tend to get closer to one another when we meet in one-to-one settings.  With that said, here’s a list of some of the things I’ve learned over the years that have helped me to grow my network: 1.  Use Tungle or Google Calendar to make appointment scheduling easier and more efficient 2.  Try to be on time.  You’re not always going to succeed.  Life happens.  But try as hard as you can. 3.  If the other person is late, be gracious.  You never know if they or their loved one has been in a traffic accident. 4.  Make sure you have a way to get a hold of your meeting contact.  Make [...]

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Getting More Twitter Followers & Why You Should

Getting more Twitter followers seems to be a big trend and, at the same time, a heated topic of debate in social media. When I launched the new NateRiggs.com last week, I sent a direct message to Chris to let him know a new design was up and running and to get his feedback on anything I might have missed. Hat tip to Chris, as he was kind enough to share the content via a tweet to his tweeps, which, might I add, is more than ten times my current sphere of influence on Twitter.  What you’re looking at in the screenshot of my Google analytics was, in large part, the result of one mention from Chris.  Pretty crazy spike in web traffic, huh? Two Sides of Using Twitter There are two sides to the Twitter followers argument.  Let’s break it down. People who believe that you should only spend time on Twitter connecting with the people you actually know or will some day meet People who believe that on Twitter you can gain information flow and a potential advantage from connecting with just about anyone My personal opinion on the issue goes back to one question: How do you want to use the tool? Localization & Niche In their book, Tactical Transparency, Shel Holtz and John C. Havens make a comparison of Twitter to “a sort of Web 2.0 telegraph system.”  That definition would bucket the medium as a two-way communication tool, focused on the sending and receiving of messages between humans.  I’ve always liked that definition. If you think about it, we as Twitter users tend to have online conversations with the same groups of people on a regular basis.  For the most part, your active core followers will be made up of the people you interact with on a [...]

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Flowtown Makes Connecting on Social Media as Easy as Email

Flowtown is one of my favorite new social media tools. It’s really a treat when you can connect with someone who let’s it all out and gives you the true inside scoop on the trials and tribulations of being a start-up technology entrepreneur.  In one of the most entertaining Skype Sessions I’ve done to date, I’m pleased to be joined today by technology entrepreneur, Ethan Bloch. Why I Heart Flowtown The time of email and social media convergence is upon us.  We’ve seen indications of this this in recent weeks with ExactTarget’s acquisition of CoTweet.  The truth is, this trend is only in the infant stages, and my prediction is that we will see more mergers like this.  I wouldn’t be at all surprised if in the next few months, we see ConstantContact follow suit and acquire some form of social media aggregation tool. (And, if it were me, I’d offer to buy Hootsuite…) Flowtown is yet another example of social media communication melding with email marketing.  This slick, little piece of web-based software has the potential to make a huge impact on how businesses are using social media and, more specifically, how they will engage with the movement towards Social CRM in the next five years. I’ve written about how a social media tool, like Flowtown, is applicable in trade show marketing.  Some of the best ideas follow the “KISS” theory.  If you’re not familiar, KISS lovingly stands for “Keep It Simple, Stupid”.  That’s exactly what Flowtown does.  The application makes it easier than ever to track down the social media profiles of the people you want to connect with, using human email addresses.  Once the addresses are uploaded, either manually or via comma-separated value spreadsheets, Flowtown quickly crawls the web and pulls back social media profile data, giving [...]

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