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Networking in Print: Why Your Business Needs Visibility Beyond the Room

In today’s fast-paced business world, networking is often seen as the golden ticket to growth. We attend events, exchange business cards, and hope those brief conversations lead to lasting connections. But here’s the truth: visibility shouldn’t end when the meeting does. Most networking opportunities give you an hour, maybe two, of exposure. After that, it’s […]

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Jan 16 2026

Why Consistency is Essential to Achieve Results

Business, Networking

Many networking event providers bang on about consistency and some give you black marks against you if you are not a consistent attendee to their events. In fact they will often exclude you altogether as they do not want a member who doesn’t turn up for every event. Some take a monthly fee to charge

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Jan 12 2026

The Challenges of Networking

Business, Networking, Uncategorised

We all have different challenges when it comes to networking. With some of us it starts with the drive there and whether or not we can find a parking space. If parking is too far away, we could choose to turn around when we are walking to the venue or if we arrive at the

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Sep 5 2025

Learn to Love Networking

Business, Networking

“I hate networking.” I hear this a lot from ladies and gentlemen I meet when I tell them what I do for a living. “It makes me feel uncomfortable, like I have to put on an act.” “Who wants to walk into a room with a bunch of strangers in there?” Well that’s exactly how

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Aug 15 2022

Networking In Kent

Business, Networking

We are back with our face-to-face networking in Kent. It’s been a long time coming but now we are putting together a regular schedule of networking events in Kent so that we can all meet up, make connections and ultimately do business together. We had our first event in Ashford before the summer holidays and

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Aug 8 2022

Supporting Small Businesses in Lockdown

Networking

At the beginning of lockdown both my husband and I were worried about what the impact of Covid19 would have on our businesses.

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Jan 5 2021

Master Your Messaging

Marketing, Networking

Have you ever been to a networking meeting or similar where you have the chance to talk about what you do, but for some reason your messaging isn’t landing?

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Dec 31 2020

Why Network?

Business, Members, Networking, Uncategorised

Many small businesses struggle with lead generation and building their email list. In this day and age of social media and email marketing, it’s vital that you start to build your network and your list as soon as you start thinking about going into business. You need to be visible and tell people what you are doing otherwise how are they going to find you?

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Dec 8 2020

Do you have an effective LinkedIn marketing strategy in place?

Business, Marketing, Networking, Social Media

Did you know having a LinkedIn marketing strategy in place can be extreme beneficial to your business. Using LinkedIn for business allows you to easily increase your exposure while generating leads and expanding your network fast and cost effectively. With the number one platform growing rapidly in 2020 with over 610 million users, it’s an

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Apr 17 2020

Your Genuine Opportunity on ‘Facebook Live’ Happening Now

Business, Digital, Networking, Video

Imagine your business has been shut down, but there’s a great marketing opportunity with a fairly captive audience. You’d want to know a bit more about it, right? My name is Barrie McDermid and the business I run is The Punctuation Show, which basically involves me travelling around the country, singing songs about punctuation and

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Apr 15 2020