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Best Ever You
Feb 13, 20204 min read
How a $5,000 Student Loan Became a Multi-Million Dollar Business
How a $5,000 student loan became a multi-million dollar business.


Best Ever You
Jul 14, 20193 min read
Look for the Wallflowers
“People should always introduce themselves to the wallflower in the room. Nobody attends a networking and wants to be alone.


Best Ever You
Apr 22, 20194 min read
Little Company – Big Vision
It was 1986 and I had just started my little enterprise a year earlier. The concept of working “on” my business and not just “in” my...


Best Ever You
Mar 25, 20193 min read
Featuring You - Meet Beth Misner
Beth Misner has spent her live finding creative ways to incorporate service to others into her professional life. From being a...


Best Ever You
Jan 10, 20192 min read
How Do You End a Conversation?
As the Founder of BNI (the world’s largest referral networking organization), I often get asked about the best way to end a conversation...


Best Ever You
Jan 10, 20193 min read
How I Approach The ‘No-Win’ Scenario
In business, we are often confronted with problems that seem to be a no-win situation. While I acknowledge that they sometimes exist, I...


Best Ever You
Jul 26, 20181 min read
Best Business - Make Them Look Great
What should you do when you receive a referral? Please watch and share this video from Mike Macedonio about referrals and helping others...


Best Ever You
Jul 10, 20185 min read
Five Levels of a Referral
A referral is a referral, right? Well, not so much. Once a referral source has given you the name of a person to call, what more could...


Best Ever You
Jul 10, 20184 min read
Four Questions to Ask about Networking Mentors
We don’t teach networking in colleges and universities hardly anywhere in the world — we didn’t when I went to school, and we still don’t...


Best Ever You
Jul 10, 20183 min read
I HIT HIDWAL
In Good to Great, Jim Collins opened up a whole new paradigm for many people. He showed us that “bad” is not the enemy of “great.” “Good”...


Best Ever You
Dec 27, 20173 min read
Will Social Media Replace Face-to-Face Networking
I love social media. I am active on social media. I have found that social media is fantastic for ‘brand building’ – and I also believe...


Best Ever You
Dec 27, 20174 min read
Networking Up! Mingling Above Your Weight Class
We’ve all heard the advice: “you become the people you hang out with.” This means that you not only need to surround yourself with...

Best Ever You
Mar 28, 20173 min read
The Five Least Important Skills to be a Great Networker
Recently, I wrote about the Seven Ways to Better Networking which was based on a survey I conducted of almost 3,400 people around the...


Best Ever You
Jan 1, 20175 min read
Referral Incentives, The Gift For Giving
Elizabeth's Note: I am proud to issue my Elizabeth's Best Award to Dr. Ivan Misner and Brennan Scanlon for their new book Avoiding the...


Best Ever You
Aug 31, 20163 min read
Relationships are Currency
How many times have you seen an entrepreneur, maybe even yourself, go to a networking event, meet a lot of people, and then leave and...
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