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Is Your Networking Fishy Enough?

The Small Business Blog

Build your own network! Is Your Networking Fishy Enough? by adrianswinscoe on Jul 02, 2010 Networking is an essential growth strategy for any small (even large) business. However, there is an essential difference between having a strategy and how you implement it and many small businesses try networking with little success.

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Who Needs an Office? 10 Entrepreneurs Weigh In on the Future of Virtual Work

Success

But around 2006, when he was starting his short-video production company, Sizzle It!, Virtual tools and resources can help you hire, manage projects, collaborate with far-flung team members and even make it look like you really do have an office. Scott Gerber is just as comfortable working at home , in coffee shops or in shared workspaces.

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7 Ways to Position Yourself as an Admin Leader

Eat Your Career

So, back in 2006, I started a blog for admins called The Executive Assistant’s Toolbox, where I shared tips and tricks for success in the field. They specialize in offering educational and networking opportunities, and they’re always looking for passionate professionals to help organize local events. I felt called to it from day 1.

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A Look at How Brad D. Smith Motivated and Inspired Intuit Employees

Success

Smith’s unconventional motivation fostered success In 2006, when he was senior vice president of Intuit’s Small Business Division, he told his team he would put on a 1920s bathing suit and jump in a pond if they met the launch deadline for the latest version of QuickBooks. Rolling Thunder” worked. QuickBooks-related revenue jumped to $861.7

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TV Host Darley Newman’s Ingenuity Turned Her Passion Project into a Business

Success

Now at age 44, she is the travel host, creator and producer of Travels with Darley , a Daytime Emmy-nominated TV show that airs on PBS and other networks. Equitrekking began in 2006 as a series of short videos that Newman published on her website, before online videos were popular. Its tenth season was released earlier this year.

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Experts Say You Probably Don’t Really Know How to Brainstorm

Success

Enterprise social networking allows it to occur in multiple offices simultaneously. IBM conducts online brainstorming “jams”—the 2006 event had more than 150,000 participants from 104 countries that led to 10 promising ideas, the company says. Technology has enabled brainstorming to be conducted in new ways such as “hackathons.”

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Five Years After Founding the Me Too Movement, Tarana Burke Remains Focused on Healing

Success

Well before founding Me Too in 2006, Burke went on from childhood to navigate life as a young Black woman—and the negative perceived perceptions that came with that. But by 2006, she had created Me Too, she says, “for little Black girls like me.”. From that day forward, she says, her perspective on life changed.

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