Category — Networking Interviews

Ray Edwards is a sought after direct response copywriter, marketing strategist and conference speaker. He specializes in helping his clients to attract new customers, and gain bigger profits from their existing business relationships. Visit him at RayEdwards.com

Josh Hinds: How do you define business networking and why do you feel it’s important?

Ray Edwards: I define business networking as: making connections with people in a meaningful way, and looking for opportunities to help them.

Most people network like jerks. It’s obvious from the moment they shove their business card into your hand that their only reason for wanting to make a connection with you is to try to get something from you.  Click to read the full post...

Carrie Perrien Smith, MBA is an entrepreneur and success coach. She helps people get more opportunities, bigger paydays, and sweeter success. Her most recent book is Currency: Striking Networking Gold in a Relationship Economy.

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

Carrie Perrien Smith: Networking in general is important on so many levels. People cross our paths for a reason and we don’t always know why — for years sometimes. The human race was meant to interact and interconnect. I define networking as the activity of interacting and interconnecting with others. We can’t ever serve something bigger than ourselves if we aren’t engaging with other people. When diligently building a network that serves others as well as yourself, your ability to serve others quickly becomes part of your personal brand.  Click to read the full post...

Jonathan Farrington is a globally recognized business coach, mentor, author, consultant, and sales strategist. He is the CEO of Top Sales Associates, Chairman of The jf Corporation and the creator of Top Sales World and the Top Sales Awards.

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

Jonathan Farrington: I cannot emphasize the importance of having good networking skills too strongly: The arrival of online social networking sites has made this task even easier of course, and the whole essence of networking is to reach out and connect with people who one believes they can assist – and of course, those who can be of assistance.  Click to read the full post...

Kelly Ferrara is a strategic communications consultant and founder of StratCommRx. You can learn more about the work she does at www.stratcommrx.com

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

Kelly Ferrara: Business Networking is using social triggers to influence behaviors. Whether our need is to purchase something, earn something, leverage something or feel something, those ultimate behaviors are based on what we learn from our empirical and theoretical decision making paradigms. Networking creates new triggers for the public to learn about our brand, product, solution or idea. Repetition of these triggers builds validity, and can influence the public’s behavior toward you in a positive manner.  Click to read the full post...

Joseph Facchiano is a business performance coach, and the owner of FocalPoint Business Coaching of Lehigh Valley. Visit him at www.JoFash.com.

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

Joseph Facchiano: If the key to all business deals is the quality of the relationship, we can certainly say that networking is the beginning of that relationship. If you saw the movie “Pay it Forward”, visualize the chalkboard where Haley Joel Osment’s character draws a single stick figure at the top. He then draws 3 lines down from that figure and draws 3 more stick figures. Each stick figure is then connected to 3 more. It is very easy to see that the act of one person can impact a large number of people.  Click to read the full post...

Anthony Brogna helps uncover what makes companies and brands remarkable, so they can deliver innovative offerings to the marketplace. He has led teams in diverse arenas to produce exceptional results. You can connect with Anthony at AnthonyBrogna.com.

Josh Hinds: How do you define Business Networking and why do you feel it’s important?

Anthony Brogna: Business networking is all about building relationships through shared value. Our individual experiences and personal/professional relationships can only be fully appreciated when we share them with people we admire. Connecting in real, honest and authentic ways brings back tenfold of what you give out.  Click to read the full post...

Daniel Decker is President of Higher Level Group, Inc., a strategic marketing and development firm that helps authors, professional speakers, and organizations who are “doing good” to expand their influence.

Daniel and his team have successfully launched multiple bestselling books and grown the businesses of several million-dollar speakers. You can connect with Daniel on his blog at www.DanielDecker.net or follow him on Twitter @danieldecker.

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

Tom Terwilliger, known as “The Achievement Mentor” is a former National Bodybuilding Champion (Mr. America), Fox Sports Net TV show host, ACSM Certified fitness professional, #1 bestselling author of 7 RU LES of Achievement and an expert on the Science of Achievement. Visit him at www.TomTerwilliger.com.

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

Tom Terwilliger: Networking in my mind is the opportunity to share ideas, best practices, and even common struggles with other entrepreneurs and business owners who are sharing a common experience and with any luck have found solutions to many of our own challenges.  Click to read the full post...

Michael Yavonditte is the former CEO of Quigo, which was sold to AOL in 2007 for $340M. Now he is the CEO of Hashable & Tracked. Additionally he is a shareholder or investor in: Meetup.com, Yipit… , Tracked.com, Klout, Voxy and Howaboutwe, among others. You can visit him at hashable.com.

Josh Hinds: Why do you feel Business Networking is important?

Michael Yavonditte: It’s important because people need to be able to connect with other people like them, or with people they aspire to work with or be like some day. It’s also good to meet people that might some day want to hire you.  Click to read the full post...

Tim Houston owned and operated three successful businesses by the time he was 25. For more than a decade, he has dedicated himself to helping businesses of all sizes to become more productive, profitable and prosperous through referral-based marketing and business and social networking. He is the author of The World’s Worst Networker.

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

Tim Houston: I define business networking as “the creation of new relationships and the enhancement of existing ones through engagement, for the purpose of mutual business and personal development.”  Click to read the full post...