I love people, every single thing about them! Their success stories, their failures, their quirks and their ambitions. Starbucks has a saying; "We're not in the coffee business serving people, we're in the people business serving coffee". Perhaps there are things to think about here...

The more I learn about networking, the more I try to apply that knowledge to my daily life.

The more networking sessions I attend, whether public or private, I begin to realize that there are two main categories of networkers - the hunters and the sharers.

It's hard to remain offline in this day and age, where communication is no longer about just picking up the phone and meeting face to face. Cast a wider net and get to know more people in less time and less effort, by joining online networks such as iConnectE.com, Meetup.com and LinkedIn.com

"Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." ~ Thomas Jefferson

This quotation is so TRUE but I never really pondered about it until I decided to quit my full-time job and focus on my USANA business.

The security of a pay-check is definitely alluring and comforting. However, as we all know, there is no such thing as an "iron rice bowl".

There is a great source of networking and other business articles published at ezine. Go and enjoy reading and learning.

http://ezinearticles.com/?cat=Business:Networking 

• 55% is from visual impact, i.e. appearance, dress and body language;
  
  
• 38% from tone of voice;
  
  
• 5% from what we actually say
  
  
• 2% from other senses

Let's face it, people are lazy creatures. They procrastinate, they make excuses and they love sleeping in. That makes it really tough to get people who've agreed to come to our meetings to show up!

We ask once, twice and thrice and then we worry if we're becoming stalkers. I'm never ready to give up just yet. I sit quietly and wait for a few weeks to pass and then I invite them again. Who knows, that might be the week that they feel a little more motivated and drag themselves out of bed, then attend our meeting and fall completely in love with Rendezvous!

BNI's philosophy is "Givers Gain". I really love it because it perfectly reflects and says what word-of-mouth or referrals should be all about, or any business in general. You give, you will get in return. We all know it, yet, it is sometimes difficult for us to unconditionally give.

In BNI Rendezvous, we should give 2 main things - referrals & testimonials. To give referrala, especially qualified referrala, you actually have to work for it and then you give it away. It is a very high level of giving. To be able to do that, we need to practice our givers' mindset every single day. We can practice by giving...Giving simple things that will cost us nothing, yet will improve our business and our life. These practices will prepare us in becoming true givers.

Here are 50 things you can give on a daily basis to practice your Giver's mindset. Forget about getting, that will come naturally and automatically, sooner or later.