Is Your Elevator Talk Upwardly Mobile?

By Rhonda Victoor At every networking event we’re asked “what do you do?” Most of us answer with our job title. Booooooooring. Unless your title is “Polar...

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Networking the Links: Keep Your Eye on the Birdie

By Rhonda Victoor Have you ever signed a contract on the 18th green with one of those tiny golf pencils? Do you know someone who...

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You’re Not That Boring: Finding a Better Answer to “What’s New?”

By Rhonda Victoor It’s fully expected. The classic opening question when I bump into an acquaintance at a networking function is, “What’s new?” It’s fully expected,...

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Navigating the Clusterfest: Rituals of a Serial Networker

By Rhonda Victoor I had stumbled upon a clusterfest. It was my first networking event: an association lunch. I didn’t know a single soul there....

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The Investigative Reporter Style of Networking

By Rhonda Victoor Sally sighed on the other end of the phone line, “Rhonda, I try to meet new people, but I’m just not connecting...

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Card-Thrusting and Other Schmoozey Networking Violations

By Rhonda Victoor It was the first networking event of the conference.  I stood at the door, knees knocking, wishing I knew someone in the...

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