Next Monday night, July 2nd, at 6pm PST / 9pm EST / 1am GMT, I’ll be presenting a free web seminar in conjunction with Larry Benet, “The Connector”, on using LinkedIn to boost your sales. More specifically, we’ll talk about how to use LinkedIn for:

Lead generation – How to find and attract highly targeted prospects Read More...

I got a very nice private message on Ecademy this week from a reader — always rewarding to hear that what you’re doing is making a difference in people’s businesses:
Reposted with permission
Hi Scott!
Just wanted to write and say hello. I’ve read just about everything you’ve written at About.com and I’ve read your blog a few Read More...

HP.com Chief Architect Pete Johnson, who I met here in Austin a couple of months ago, has posted a review of The Virtual Handshake on his blog (also made the front page of TechDispenser).
Pete was particularly taken with our “7 Keys to a Powerful Network” framework, which triggered one of those ah-hah moments for him:
This Read More...

This week, Jason Alba is doing a series of posts about his blogging secrets. This is a great guide for how to effectively build relationships and your personal brand with your blog.
One of the tips that came up in the comments on his Day 1 post was the matter of using a signature in your Read More...

I enjoyed speaking at the recent Web 2.0 New York conference.  I have posted an expanded version of my slide deck on “Web 3.0: Where Are We Headed?”  My thanks to Sutithi Chakraborty for her help in researching this topic.

Our new parent company, Evalueserve, is highly dependent on email for internal and external communications. They also hire every year hundreds of recent graduates (particularly in India, China, and Chile) who are usually not familiar with the protocols of business communication via email. The guidelines below, crafted by my Evalueserve colleague Ramakrishnan M., provide guidelines Read More...

I have to confess that even though I’m like this “social networking guru”, or whatever, I really don’t spend that much time going and checking out new sites. I’m too busy actually working (on the things that make me money) and there are others, like Mashable and The Social Networking Weblog that do a great Read More...

I received a message today from a reader of The Virtual Handshake who had a success with one of the techniques presented in the book:
One thing that caught my attention in The Virtual Handshake is when you told the story about the gentleman who didn’t know the person’s email address who he wanted to email. Read More...

In our latest FastCompany column, we summarized best practices in managing virtual employees:
…Daigle observed that the virtual structure eliminates many political issues: “Not only do we not have much of the water cooler, idle time type of communication, and resulting issues — we don’t have time for it. I think there is some truth that Read More...

I hope that some of you will join us for the program below.

CONSULTING OPPORTUNITIES WITH HEDGE FUNDS, PRIVATE EQUITY FUNDS, MUTUAL FUNDS AND OTHERS

Webinar with David Teten, Co-Managing Director, Nitron Circle of Experts

Friday, June 08, 2007, 1:00 – 2:00 PM EST

Sponsored by Execunet, the executive network for the $100K+ executive.

David is Read More...