Talk of the Town

Working Together

There are a few different kinds.. Marketing, Social, Tribes, Mastermind groups and the like. They are usually groups, where people are in action, they help each other, support each other and sometimes there is a leader that guides them along. Plus, everyone has there own Social Circle of 150+ people, these people are in your social network.

In creating your own Social Circle use your address book, or e-mail address book. I’ve set up categories/groups like Construction Services; Health; Marketing; Financial; Professional; Artists; list the categories that are important to you. As you connect to people put them into your groups – this way you can stay in touch with them, send them news that may interest them, resources, services which are different ways to keep in touch with people. I started putting people in groups of where I met them, like LinkedIn, Facebook, BranchOut, I realized later this was not working for me. You need to narrow down your connections further to really be a Trusted Agent or a Connector. This is how you can build your reputation, so people will like, trust and want to do business with you.

One of the inner circles that I am writing about now is one that I co-host with Carol Deckert. It originally was going to be a Social Circle Mastermind group now it has become more of a Marketing Inner Circle, we are sharing various marketing tools and helping each other with our marketing challenges. Right now, I would like to introduce to you three of our members.

Jake Beckman is an Artist and a CPA.

That Pesky Bonus Depreciation & Automobiles — 2011 Taxes

If you are in busi­ness, you prob­a­bly use your car, truck or SUV for some busi­ness pur­pose.  Indeed your busi­ness may have pur­chased a vehi­cle. How much of the pur­chase price you can deduct as a busi­ness expense dur­ing any given year is a com­plex cal­cu­la­tion, called depre­ci­a­tion, which con­gress has fur­ther com­pli­cated with the addi­tion of things like 100% Bonus Depre­ci­a­tion.  This blog talks how you depre­ci­ate a new car placed in the ser­vice in 2011 includ­ing what to do about that pesky 100% Bonus Depre­ci­a­tion. Continue to read the rest of her post.

Carol Deckert is a Networking Expert/Coach and enjoys working with entrepreneurs, small business owners, coaches, professional service providers and individuals.
Are you getting enough “new” business?

Finding/keeping new business is one of  the daily struggles of an entrepreneur.  I don’t know about you, but I depend on learning from the “master” and try to implement some of  their suggestions.  My mind was obviously open today and searching for this information that I am going to share with you.  I hope you enjoy reading this and would love to hear your comments posted below! Continue to read more

Biba Pedron, originally from France, my mission is to help women solo-entrepreneurs attract more clients and make more money by coaching them on coordinating their business success with their personal style with a little “French Touch”.

How to Reactivate Your Network During the Summer

Summertime is usually a downtime for business but you shouldn’t stop networking. Take advantage of this quiet period to be creative and network in a different way by reactivating your contacts. 

Since there are less events and people have more free time, use this opportunity to invite people for a social happy hour or join groups that you never joined before. It’s a good time to explore new opportunities to meet new people in new environments for new leads. Continue to read more

Mari-Lyn Harris

Tagged as: crowd sourcing, social net

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