Just found a useful article on the Smarta.com blog - 

12 Top Online Business Tips From Wix, Linkedin and Facebook

(And there was me thinking that Wix was a DIY store :0)

Naturally I was particularly interested in the LinkedIn section with comments from Chris Brown, Head of UK Relationship Management at Linkedin.... 

"Chris gave some great…

Her's an article from Surrey News, the onine publication by Surrey County Council, intoducing a great new free service for Library Members (sign up for free at your nearest library!)

Stop press – newspaper readers can get their daily fix of stories from home and abroad for free thanks to a new online initiative.

All the day’s news, features and sport from the likes of The Daily Telegraph, Daily…

Infographis are a great (and very fashionable!) way of providing a snapshot overview os dry statistics. Here's one about Social Media platforms from Leverage New Media that caught my eye... [view original here]…

It seems that women (who I rate as better at networking than men) are also tops at using Social Media according to this article (and Infographic) on the raprehab.com website. (Guess which is the one social media site where men still dominate?)

"RapRehab wanted to share some reserach on how men and women use social media and found out that women spend more time on social networking sites than men. We were surprised to learn that men dominate only…

Thanks to new NiS Member Qamar Rehman for alerting me to the latest 'shock horror' episode in the Google SEO saga... Here's an article from the Search Engine Watch website (and I'm sure Qamar will be happy to enlighten you further :0)

"The day many SEO professionals hoped would never come, but feared eventually would, apparently has arrived today. It appears that Google has cut off keyword data altogether.

Nearly two years after making one of the …

We were introduced to many of the ins and outs of Facebook for Business at the MyTeam Network RoundTable in Cobham last week by top bloke, Social Media Wizard and NiS Member Mark Hughes of Funky Social Media.

How apposite then that NiS Member and Social Marketing Queen …

Here's another great little list I found and would like to share with you. It's from The Huffington Post Blog, and it chimes with many of my own convictions about what works in networking...  [read the whole thing here...]

1. Be discriminating. There are countless events to attend from Chamber business card exchanges to professional development…

As a copywriter I always like to learn from the best, and Drayton Bird (crazy name, crazy guy:0) is a Direct Marketing guru who is always worth listening to... He's British, and advertising legend David Ogilvy, who he worked with while at O&M Direct said of…

Apparently we are blessed with long and happy lives here in leafy Surrey, according to this article on the Telegraph's website.  And on the subject of the Telegraph, I've added a link to their   cartoon to the NiS home page  so whenever you're on the site you can click to enjoy that day's example from the best topical cartoonist of all time, IMHO!

London commuter belt is healthiest place to…

I spotted this fascinating article on the InformationWeek website. I'm particularly interested in how to monetise the social web because I'd like to make a business out of the 'Networking in' concept :0)

5 Top Social Media Trends For 2014

From social media faux pas to a prominent IPO, 2013 was full of social media highs and lows. According to Brian Solis, principal analyst at Altimeter Group, this year marked social media's move into the…

I read loads of articles on networking and it's nice to find I'm in good company when I recommend networking as the twenty-first Century way to find business success...

Here's a promising looking chap called RIchard Branson explaining his enthusiasm for networking on Entrepreneur.com...

"Q: How much of an impact does a really effective networker have on a company's success? Does it ever make sense to hire someone whose only…

Not all the blog posts in NiS are serious business stuff - witness my two recent posts about Surrey Hills, the forthcoming reality TV show about the rich young things of Elmbridge which apparently is our very own answer to The Only Way Is Essex!

I couldn't resist posting a link to this story on This is Surrey (which you've…

Another Networking focused blog post I liked this week, is on the Materials World Magazine website (oh yes, I have an eclectic reading list!). You can read the rest of the article here...

"After setting up an account and creating a LinkedIn profile, you might feel ready to tick online networking off your to-do list. Unfortunately for those short of time,…

I read ten very dull blog posts about How to Network for every good one, so it's great to find a gem like this article by Isaiah Hankel,

The Networking Barrier

Most big deals don’t happen online. Understand that power moves are made in person. It doesn’t matter if you’re shy or talkative, an introvert or an extrovert, a software…

Another great blog post from the ever-reliable (and never dull!) Twitter Queen, NiS Member Veronica Pullen...

I've been advising service-based SMEs to 'productise' their offerings for many years now, so I fully agree with the sentiment Veronica…

This article on the Fresh Business Thinking website is music to our ears here at Networking in Surrey!

Hate to say we told you so, but we have been preaching about the low cost and high return on investment of tiem and money when you do it right...

Networking has increased within UK companies according to a new report. The marketing technique is now used by nearly 3 out of 5 (58%) companies, a sign that companies today prefer to deepen…

Networking and dating are often compared - both are about relationships, after all!

Here's a thought-provoking articlewith some good tips from the Business2Community website by Deanna M. Murray, Director of Digital Strategy & Marketing at US agency Build.Automate Inc.

I particularly like the sections on networking as a team which is a fundamental strategy underpinning my own new networking venture,  …

Online networking isn't really what Networking in Surrey is all about.

Despite being a web-based service often likened to a niched down, less formal LinkedIn, and with many online networking tools in our software that most NiS Members are not yet using, our main objective has always been to get more local business people out networking face-to-face. We believe that's still the most effective way to build productive working…

The anticipation mounts... This update to our earlier blog post brings the latest news about Elmbridge's answer to TOWIE, this time from the Local Guardian website. Here at NiS Towers we can't wait to see the inevitable parade of…