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Sydney’s Leading Networking Coach is hosting 16 workshops during Sydney Small Business Month in September with Australia’s leading experts on Effective Networking, Big Business and Social Media.

See all the workshops and events at http://networkingcoach.com.au/big-business

Seminar Schedule

9 Day Social Media Challenge  -  Tues & Thurs 2pm –  The City Hotel – $24.95 / $149 ($30) BOOK NOW

Giving you the Networking Edge Series  - Friday 8:30am  -  MBF on 319 George - $29 / $66 ($30) BOOK NOW

Turning Small Business into Big Business Wednesday 6:30pm  - World Square Pub  -  $50 / $125 ($50)  BOOK NOW

Date                                      Speaker                                              Topic

Thursday 2^nd – Fi Bendall: Leveraging social media for social advantage

Friday 3^rd – Robyn Henderson: Referral Generation: Your Key to Business Growth

Tuesday 7^th – Helen Crozier: How to tame the time spent on Social Media

Wednesday 8^th – Matt Catling: Big Business Mindset

Thursday 9^th – The Web Celeb:  How to Flirt & Convert on Facebook

Friday 10^th – Networking Coach: 12 Golden Steps to Effective Networking

Tuesday 14^th – Tony Cosentino: Running a Business website with WordPress

Wednesday 15^th – Justin Herald: Big Business Marketing

Thursday 16^th – Steve Brossman: Video Marketing for Business

Friday 17^th – Ben Angel: Sleeping Your Way to the Top in Business

Tuesday 21^st – Clodagh Higgins: Twitter Success for Business

Wednesday 22^nd – Nathan Williams: Big Business Customer Loyalty

Thursday 23^rd – Raz Chorev: What is LinkedIn, and why you can’t ignore it anymore

Tuesday 28^th Kathie Melocco Social Media Marketing Solutions

Wednesday 29^th – Jay Singh and Irene Ross: Big Business Structure

Thursday 30^th – Sean Grobbelaar: Virtual Business Cards

Save by pre – booking for your Workshops Online or you can Pay with Cash & PayPal at the Events

Small Business Partners Include

The SmallBusiness Essentials range of online business solutions have been designed to meet the needs of Australian small business by not only providing all the basic record keeping requirements, but also supplying helpful business tips and valuable business listings and websites to assist with all your compliance requirements.

To view our comprehensive tool box of solutions, go to  www.mySBE.com.au.

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Biggest Networking Challenge POLL

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We are polling Australia to find our what YOUR Biggest Networking Challenge is when attending events?

Australia’s leading networking speakers will be giving you the networking edge during Sydney September Small Business Month.

http://networkingseries.eventbrite.com/

Hear Robyn Henderson, Ben Angel and Sean Grobbelaar give you the tips to overcome your networking challenges to attract more business from every hand shake.

We are polling Australia to find our what YOUR Biggest Networking Challenge is when attending events?

Australia’s leading networking speakers will be giving you the networking edge during Sydney September Small Business Month.

http://networkingseries.eventbrite.com/

Hear Robyn Henderson, Ben Angel and Sean Grobbelaar give you the tips to overcome your networking challenges to attract more business from every hand shake.

Business cards are obsolete and one dimensional tools of connecting people.

They limit what you can share with people, they require others to enter in the details and they tend to get lost, throw in the wash or simply forgotten about.

As everything and everyone moves online, into the clouds, your virtual identity will be your business card. Yes, the printed card will linger for some time as an artifact of our pre-internet work life. But you cannot only rely on these dinosaurs to help you build your personal brand, business relationships and contacts. This applies whether you work inside a company, non-profit, a government agency or as a business owner. It is especially relevant if you are in transition (thanks to our current economy) and you are trying to start a business, subcontracting or consulting.

In 90 minutes I will show you how to instantly connect with a new contact, stay connected and have live platform to constantly interact and build profitable relationships.

From Linkedin to Facebook to Mobile Applications, we can ensure people have all the relevant information instantly and accurately stored in a current place so they can easily and quickly refer and recommend you onto people for you to build your business.

Book Now into Sean Grobbelaar “Stay Connected” Workshop – Click Here

Date: Thursday 29^th September

Time: 2pm to 4:30pm

Venue: City Hotel, 347 Kent Street, cnr of Kent and King, Sydney CBD

Tickets: $24.95 per person or book into all 9 workshops for $90 (early bird price!)

Partner: This Workshop is brought to you by Small Business Essentials

Be more effective Networking, make your Business Card work harder for you – Book Now

1. Simple

The 30 second elevator pitch is dead.

Stop doing it, people get turned off and think you are about to sell them something!!

To communicate effectively at Networking Events or to anybody who asks “What do you do”, you need to create an interesting and though provoking 5 to 10 second tag line that effectively summarises what you do best.

If you are serious about connecting with people at Networking Events, you need to meet Robin Dickinson, a Business Coach and man of many wise words.

Robin has been helping people find their winning pitch on performance – boosting ideas blog.

Here is a quick outline of his blog, I encourage all serious networkers to visit his blog and get involved in finding their share-words. read more

What specifically do you want me to say when sharing you?

What are your share-words?

Here are some helpful tips to boosting your sharewords…

It’s easy to recommend you if your sharewords are short, simple and easy to remember.  Long-winded sentences can be difficult to remember on the spur of the moment – that fantastic moment – when the opportunity to recommend you arises.

2. Conversational

It’s easy to recommend you if your sharewords can be effortlessly woven into a conversation – ideally more than once.  For example, unique, cute and clever statements may sound great or look great on a website, business card or brochure, but can be hard to ease into the day-to-day dialogue.

3. Buyer-oriented

It’s easy to recommend you if your sharewords are already on a buyer’s shopping list i.e. you fulfill a need, solve a problem, scratch an itch or remove people’s pain in some way, shape or form.  It’s not so much what you are selling, but what others are buying.

4. Self-evident

It’s easy to recommend you if your sharewords are clear and make sense.  Avoid jargon, acronyms, abbreviations, abstractions, and technical language – anything that requires a long-winded explanation to be understood.

5. Focused

It’s easy to recommend you if your sharewords have a clear, unmistakable focus.  Avoid trying to be all things to all people, just in case you might miss out on something.  Decide on what you single-mindedly stand for…and say “NO!” to the rest.

For example

I was recently helping my friend, author and business strategist Iggy Pintado develop his share-words.

Iggy’s original sharewords were:

Helping businesses develop ways to effectively connect to people, information and ideas
practically and efficiently for commercial benefit.

In fairness, to Iggy, this is the statement he had on his new business card – and it wasn’t necessarily designed for ease of recommendation.  With this in mind, and after a short discussion that referred to the above checklist, we developed the following sharewords:

Connecting people for business benefit.

Now that is much easier for me to recommend.  What does Iggy do? He connects people for business benefit.  Who better to recommend when the conversation turns to getting tangible results from social media or business networking than Iggy Pintado?!

In summary

If it’s okay by you, assuming the product or service you provide is the best in its class, I’d like to think of myself as on your sales team, enthusiastically recommending you whenever the opportunity arises.

Having worked with thousands of sales people, I have learned that one of the keys to motivating them to sell is to develop an easy-to-share sales message – your sharewords.

Your turn…

Given the importance of having effective sharewords and the high level of reader participation and interactivity on this blog, I thought we could help people ‘workshop’ their sharewords.

Simply write your current and/or proposed sharewords in the comments, and if you want help, just write (help) after it.  This will be an invitation for any or all of this talented community to contribute any thoughts, questions or ideas aimed at helping you sharpen your sharewords, and hence increasing your recommendation.

CLICK HERE to START creating YOUR SHARE WORDS

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Sydney’s Leading Networking Coach caught up with Australia’s Leading LinkedIn Expert, Raz Chorev to discuss how you could connect and brand yourself more effectively on LinkedIn.

Complete the LinkedIn Check List:

1. Complete your Profile - add all your work experience, current photo and contact details

2. Add Applications like WordPress, Google Presentations and Twitter

3. Upload your contacts from Outlook

4. Join a discussion in a Group

5. Recommend a person and ask for a recommendation

6. Be active on Answers, sharing professional advice and expertise

7. Add your Company profile and details

8. Insert a Video to your profile (this is tricky!!)

9. Invite people to an event via LinkedIn Events

10. Engage with your contacts daily, schedule a time

For more tips on how to build your LinkedIn Profile, visit http://www.razchorev.com/

Raz Chorev is a Specialist at Branding and identity, Personal Marketing, making business connections, marketing and sales strategies, customer loyalty and customer retention strategies, and helping businesses focus on their clients.

Attend a LinkedIn Workshop with Raz at http://9daysocialmediachallenge.eventbrite.com/

Sydney’s Small Businesses here’s your chance to take advantage of a $119 SAVING.

July First Thursday ($60) + 9 Day Social Media Challenge ($149)  = (normally $209) only $90 for first 20 buyers

Get your FREE ticket to Sydney’s biggest Networking Event in July and tickets to all 9 social media workshops with Australia’s leading experts in September.

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The “9 Day Social Media” Challenge” sends Sydney Businesses to Social Media School.

The challenge covers Business’s Social Media Strategy, Social Media Promotions, Social Media Time Management, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Blogging and Virtual Business Cards, for more information click here.

First Thursday is Sydney’s premier networking event.

It brings together the best of businesses in Sydney.

At the exciting venue of the Scuderia Graziani showroom we’ll provide a creative and conducive environment to help you grow your network. Read more.

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