Well, the first place to look for money is your bank account. If there isn’t much there, and you have a great idea, you’ll have to search for funding and investors. In this post we will try looking at the subject with a different perspective.
Part of my work with start-up companies includes finding investors and funds. With time you find that somethings works for you better than others. Of course, these are just my impressions. Hope you’ll find them useful:
Do you have any friends working in sales? Is any of your friends a blogger? Count the amount of people you know who work with anything to do with technology. If you answered ‘YES’ to these questions or most of them, potentially you have a successful new company in your hands. More on connecting your connections in this post.
In this blog we dealt with how to built your network, and how to make it grow. Assuming you already have a network of considerable size, it’s time to make it work for you, and for your connections. A non-active network, won’t bring any value to your business. Connection won’t last – the next time you’ll need someone from your network you will have to start rebuilding your relationship from scratch.
Not everyone is your customer, and not everyone is network connections material. But they are all PEOPLE. In this post I would like to continue my last post about business networking and focus on network connections, and their part in your network of customers and business network.
This business has a great product, with a slight problem with customer support…
A lot of businessman are self-employed, which usually offer some kind of service. Unlike owning a store, usually customers wont bump into your business and buy something, Usually you would have an office somewhere or even be working from home.
The best and most straightforward way to utilize your blog for networking is commenting on other people’s blogs. Here are a few tips for commenting.
Maintaining a blog is an excellent way to present yourself on the web. Contrary to social media sites, a web log enables you to control the design, write how much you want and set the agenda.
Having your own domain name also enhances your presence on the web and makes it easier to find you via search engines.
So my blog helps me present myself, but we’re here to talk about networking, right?
The best way to communicate with a blog is commenting on other blogs. If you wish to communicate and connect to another person who has a blog, head there and comment on one of the latest blog posts.
