Posts from — December 2006

Jen Blackert spent 13 years in corporate America holding executive marketing and internet marketing positions at large corporations, such as DELL Computers, Emerson Process Management and SIEMENS Medical, in the areas of marketing, advertising, branding, program management and web development.

After leaving the corporate grind she launched a successful online-on-the-phone coaching business. She now focuses her efforts on working with small business owners and providing them with step-by-step tools and marketing automation systems that helps them attract clients – and grow their businesses to extraordinary levels.

Josh: How do you define Business Networking and why do you feel it is important?  Click to read the full post...

Tom Kane, a former practicing attorney, is the principal of Kane Consulting, Inc., a legal marketing consulting firm.

Prior to re-establishing a consulting practice in 2003, Tom served for over 17 years as an in-house marketer for several firms and as a consultant to the legal industry. His last in-house position was as chief marketing officer for a 450-lawyer firm based in Philadelphia, where he had a staff of 12 and was responsible for the firm’s marketing efforts in its 12 offices.

It is my sincere pleasure to bring you Mr. Tom Kane…  Click to read the full post...

Sue Pelletier is editor of Association Meetings magazine, and has worked on several other of The Meetings Group magazines and Web sites since she joined Prism Business Media in 1998. Sue previously wrote for and edited several national and international trade magazines and newsletters for the environmental industry. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder, she also helped to plan a technical trade conference and exposition and several smaller meetings for the environmental industry before deciding to stick with what she does best.

Josh: How do you define Business Networking and why do you feel it is important?  Click to read the full post...

Rajesh Setty currently serves as the president of Foresight Plus, LLC., Foresight Plus partners with businesses and individuals to provide them an unfair and sustainable competitive advantage.

As an entrepreneur, he is involved in several businesses in some combination of investor, board member and/or an operating executive. The companies that he is involved include but not limited to Suggestica, iPolipo, Compassites and CIGNEX.

As an author, he has written and published several books, his latest book “Beyond Code” (foreword by Tom Peters) was published in late 2005. He is a sought after speaker in conferences and within companies on topics that include but not limited to Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Distinguishing Yourself and Open Source.  Click to read the full post...

Peter T. Brown is a software engineer and an entrepreneur. His latest project is ‘RealityAllStarz‘, a site where you can challenge yourself and your friends to do interesting and unique things. You can write your own challenges or check out what other people are doing. You upload photos or video “proving” you’ve completed a particular challenge and your friends as well as the entire community can review your work and rate how well you’ve done.

If you’d like to learn more about Peter’s other projects you can do so here .

Now, without further ado, here’s Peter…  Click to read the full post...

Danielle is a fledgling entrepreneur who is sharing her journey as a contributor on the blog SmallBusinessBranding.com. Her business venture, launched in June 2006, offers a new concept in dating by helping single men and women to connect through conversation, humour and playful banter using her board game. Prior to this adventure she was self-employed as a consultant helping companies to communicate more effectively with their staff.

Josh: How do you define Business Networking and why do you feel it is important?  Click to read the full post...

Valeria Maltoni is the author of business blog ConversationAgent.com, where she connects ideas and people on marketing, communications, execution, and trends. She believes that the new marketplace is the conversation. By day, she is a communications and marketing expert and manages global communications and marketing in corporate America, where she has built corporate brand equity in 5 industries; launched new products/services and rescued old brands; managed image and reputation; and designed business conversations that produce results.

Josh: How do you define Business Networking and why do you feel it is important?  Click to read the full post...

Dwayne Melancon is the author of Genuine Curiosity, where he shares his thoughts on business, technology, travel, self improvement, and personal productivity topics. By day, he is an IT process expert and VP of Corporate Development at Tripwire, Inc. where he builds productive and successful relationships between his company and others.

Josh: How do you define Business Networking and why do you feel it is important?

Dwayne Melancon: Business Networking to me means two things. First, it’s about using the resources available to you to find people who can help you achieve your business goals, and advance your cause. Second, it’s about becoming a better resource to others.  Click to read the full post...

Allison C. Shields, Esq., is President of Legal Ease Consulting, Inc., she provides leadership, management and practice development services for successful law firms.

Josh: How do you define Business Networking and why do you feel it is important?

Allison C. Shields: Business Networking is about building relationships. Although there can certainly be relationships between businesses, at their core, all relationships are about people. So business networking is about connecting with people.  Click to read the full post...

Just a quick note to say that I’ve added a section to the site which includes all the past business networking interviews I’ve done. You can view it here if you’d like. In case you don’t see it off hand on the site it’s the link right above the search feature at the top of the page which reads “Business networking interviews” right next to the one that says “Networking Resources” and “Contact”.

By the way there are well over 50 interviews listed there now, so if you’re new to our community here you might enjoy having a look to see what you’ve missed.  Click to read the full post...