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Everyone Is In Sales. Yes, Even You.
Anyone who's known Bob and I for more than two weeks has heard me give him a hard time about being "overhead"…
Don’t Be That Guy: The Drive-By Recruiter
"If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there." - Martin Blank, Grosse Pointe Blank.…
Announcing International Prune Your Network Day!
It's time to prune your network.
Networks are like trees, folks. Sure, they're nice to look at, provide shade…
The Dating Corollary: Stop Trying To Change Me
As mentioned in the introduction (and you read the introduction, right? No? Go read it over here), in the first…
How Not To Suck At LinkedIn
Continuing our (relatively new) tradition of helping you not suck, we now move into How Not To Suck At LinkedIn.…
How Not To Suck At Networking
"See this? Our website? I just want it to suck less. Can you make it suck less? I have a big bag of money for…
Greedy Networking Guy
“If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there.” – Martin Blank
Reason number…
Don’t Be That Guy – Mister Magoo
"If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there." - Martin Blank, Grosse Pointe Blank.…
LinkedIn Is Not A Video Game
This blog post is a result of a conversation that I wind up having around once a month. A conversation that…
The LinkedIn Prostitution Ring
BREAKING NEWS: Attorney Generals from all 50 states, fresh off their high of censoring first amendment rights by…
Don’t Be That Guy: King of ASSumptions
"Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too…
The Dating Corollary: Desperation and Jealousy
As mentioned in the introduction (and you read the introduction, right? No? Go read it over here), we're going to…
Always Be Yourself
So, we've told you once or twice that the most important thing you can do when it comes to networking is pretty…
The New and Improved 10 Commandments of Networking
As with everything that we do, this has evolved over the years.
Because we don't believe in revisionist history,…
Thoughts On Basements and Networks
"Those who fail to plan...should plan to fail." - unattributed, many sources
"I am never doing that again...and…
The Bachelor Party Hypothesis
By now, you've read our entries in the Networking Basics category, and even a few of the How Not To Suck realm.…
The Dating Corollary – An Introduction
You've been alone for too long. The last one ended horribly, when you found out that you valued and needed them…
The 10 Commandments of Job Search
We gave you The Ten Commandments of Networking.
We even gave you The Seven Deadly Sins of Networking.
After…
The Dating Corollary: I Can Change and Other Lies
You did it.
You've finally had enough.
You're pulling the trigger, and you're ending the relationship.…
Social Networking Class Guy
Alright, the cat's out of the bag. The bombardment of "training sessions" and classes where people actually *cough*…