Mr Lewis

Tag: Business Development

  • What great questions have you got?

    My son, like many children, had his birthday around the cutoff date for entry into Primary school. So my wife and I had a choice “do we send him a little earlier, or a little late.  My position on the matter was “Give me one good reason we should hold him back”. And we couldn’t…

  • Networking and Names

    When I gave up the darts after 15 or so years as a smoker, it was really hard for me. I tried a whole lot of systems but they all failed. Then it occurred to me that the only thing the systems had in common were that they were systems, and hence I had something…

  • Expanding your Network

    Last blog I talked about the best Business Development people I know being great networkers, so I thought I’d talk a bit more this week about expanding your network. Despite Social Networking being all the rage :  LinkedIn, Twitter,  Facebook.  I am not very keen on connecting to people I haven’t met.  There is a…

  • Networking Numbers

    I was thinking the other day about two guys I knew that were really good at generating new business.  Earlier in the day I had dismissed both of them with the comment – “they are only selling into their existing networks”.  but at my afternoon coffee, I wondered whether I had thrown the “baby out…

  • the other networking

    This morning I got a message from my niece on Facebook, two messages from colleagues on Linkedin , 1 SMS messages and a couple of dozen emails.  Which got me thinking about networking.  I use social networking tools LinkedIn and Facebook regularly (not heavily) but probably not the way most people think.  I tend to…