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Students Need LinkedIn

Attention college students. Why aren’t you on LinkedIn yet?

I am often hired to speak at colleges and universities about business networking. When I do, I always conduct an informal poll of the students to see how many have a LinkedIn profile. The result is usually less than a quarter of the attendees. This is troubling to me.

LinkedIn is now over 238,000,000 members strong, with more than 84 million in the United States alone. The professional social network has 30 million students and recent...

Rock on with these five marketing tips

I had the good fortune of being asked to return to the Americana Music Festival last week to lead a panel on marketing for musicians. Thanks to Wayne Leeloyfor the invitation.

I shared the stage with Charles Alexander, founder and CEO of Outside the Box Music; Dara Carson, a digital marketing strategy consultant; Brian Schopfel, co-founder of Eyes & EarsEntertainment; and Ashley Mixson, executive director at Girlilla Marketing; all of whom are brilliant music industry professionals.

Our group w...

Break the Ice and Listen Better

The following is my second article on business networking in the Tennessean newspaper. You can find the original published on September 12th on their site. Thanks for reading this and sharing it with your friends.

I enjoyed a mixer event this week put on by NAMA, the Nashville Chapter of the North American Marketing Association. (Full disclosure: I am a board member.) The event was a fun opportunity to mix with marketers from the Greater Nashville area. It also inspired this article.

I am often...

Scheduling Tweets? Read This.

Last week I was pleased to have my first article published in the Tennessean, the state’s largest newspaper.The article, “Scheduling tweets runs risk of outage, outrage“, is about the dangers of prescheduling tweets. I have reposted it here for you to enjoy.

I have to give a shout out to Nancy VanReece, who cracked me up with this tweet.

Automation is a great thing. It makes online marketing easier and Twitter less time consuming. It can also cause problems and even public relations nightmares....

Keen to Win Passes?

The KEEN Digital Summit is an impressive conference coming to Nashville from October 24 – 27. I have one pair of passes to the conference for one lucky winner and their friend worth $600!

KEEN Digital Summit draws from the top digital entrepreneurs, leaders, founders and innovators, bringing all under one roof in a three-day B2B and B2C event and expo. I will be presenting on effective new networking tips, tools and more. I hope to see you.

Join social influencers, journalists, editors, develop...

How to Use Twitter Lists Like a Pro

This is an excerpt from a guest post I wrote for Career Attraction. You can read the full post here.

I spoke at a conference recently to a rather social media-savvy audience. It didn’t surprise me that the bulk of the crowd raised their hands when I asked them if they were active on Twitter. It shocked me when less than a quarter raised their hands to say they used Twitter lists.

Back in the early days of Twitter, there wasn’t an option to create lists. Instead, you had to manually use a wiki t...

75 Tips for Better Event Networking

Since writing New Business Networking, I have received requests for suggestions to improve business networking efforts. I often get requests specifically for tips for attending events. I decided to take some time with pen and paper to see how many tips I could come up with for you.

The following are 75 tips for better event networking. Each tip in the free downloadable PDF is a tweetable link. Click it, and you can share it with your friends. If you’re planning to attend an event, mixer, trade...

Note to Self. Here’s How to Remember Everything.

In my book, New Business Networking, I write about ways to help you remember names and information better. We often rush from meeting to meeting without taking the important step of noting info about who we met and what we talked about. One suggestion I have is to record an audio note to yourself on your phone and transcribe it later.

I have discovered a dead simple, free way to transcribe your voice memo directly to your email. You don’t need a fancy smartphone, all you need is a Gmail accoun...

Note to self. Here’s how to remember everything.

In my book, New Business Networking, I write about ways to help you remember names and information better. We often rush from meeting to meeting without taking the important step of noting info about who we met and what we talked about. One suggestion I have is to record an audio note to yourself on your phone and transcribe it later.

I have discovered a dead simple, free way to transcribe your voice memo directly to your email. You don’t need a fancy smartphone, all you need is a Gmail accoun...

Interview with the Nashville Business Journal

I was recently interviewed for the Nashville Business Journal. The story is in part about me (a Toronto native) and how I used networking to land on my feet in Nashville. In fact, I share these stories in great detail in my book, New Business Networking.

You can read the full article,, on the Nashville Business Journal site. Here are some takeaways the excellent writer, Jamie McGee, shared at the end of her story.

1. Build your network onlin...