Keith Grover, NiS Founder's Blog (179)

‘Season of mist and mellow fruitfulness’ as Keats would have it (or fog and frost, if you prefer a more accurate picture today!) Either way, there’s plenty of festive networking in the pipeline to ‘warm the cockles’, where you can promote and grow your business by building your connections and getting your face out there.

Talking of faces, are you one of the 15% of NiS Members yet to post your photo to your My…

So, the gales are upon us, it gets dark at 4pm, and 'It's' back to haunt us - by which I mean the dreaded 'C' word - Xmas! Stopping some way short of 'bah, humbug!', I'd like to register a mild 'tut-tut' at being bombarded with tinsel and teddy bears 'from here to Nativity', on TV, in shops, in magazines and through the letter box.

Having said that, I'm more than happy to have lots of Christmas specials in our…

Bonfire night again - don’tcha just love fireworks? Now call me old-fashioned, but I miss the old 'Penny for the Guy' routine in the run-up to 5 November. Trick or treat just doesn't do it for me, I'm afraid... But enough of the nostalgia, already - let's look forward to a bright future out there in Networkland :-)

We've had lots of new sign-ups to NiS again this week. A very warm NiS welcome on behalf of all our…

So - is this unseasonably mild, sunny weather a case (geddit?) of 'Last of the Summer Wine'? The final opportunity perhaps, to quaff a glass or two of chilled Sauvignon Blanc out on the patio (albeit in our balaclavas) before the clocks go back this weekend (don't forget!) Whatever the weather, it's certainly peak networking season out there, and if the number of events on NiS is anything to go by, the networking boom shows no…

(This newsletter went out at 01:30 today and it's already out of date, as we've just hit 200 Members thanks to Alan and Matthew who joined this morning...)

Things are still really buzzing here as NiS approaches 200 Members and Networking in Berkshire has passed the 330 mark. Now that NiS membership is free for the foreseeable future, it makes it even easier to recommend NiS to your contacts -…

Just received the Business Link newsletter with this little tip list - handy for first-time networkers and a good reminder for the rest of us.. take a look here -.7 habits of effective networkers

Thought I'd post my weekly Member email here on the blog for general viewing - so here it is...

Well, we’re certainly ‘hot to trot’ here in the NetworkingIn bunker, with both Surrey and Berkshire sites seeing record visitor numbers in September – 480 and 790 unique visitors respectively– fantastic! And our combined membership’s about to sail through the 500…

Just had a note here on the site from my old pal Paul Maung Maung - we used to work together in the travel industry many moons ago.

"Hi Keith, how about offering Surrey Networking free tour of the 2012 Olympic Complex available now - details on …

Know any one over 50 trying to start their own business in the South East? Suggest they join the Silver Academy…

My thanks to NiS Members Andrew Widgery and Len Goss for alerting me to this great scheme to help mature entrepreneurs to become self employed, perhaps because they’re…

Make sure your My Page profile on NiS is up to date and looks good. Here are a couple of pointers...

NiS TOP TIP: Enhance your NiS profile listing with a brief descriptor of the business you’re in - there's only room for one or two words. Go to My Page, then click Manage My Page, and then click Profile. In the Full Name box you can have up to 32 characters, including…

I just posted this to a discussion thread here on the Social Media Tribes blog:

Content is dead! Long live Content! We all love shiny new stuff. We love more deeply and lastingly the quality old stuff that has stood the test of Time. (Think about marriage/partnership to get my drift... :0)

Re-purposing quality old stuff and presenting it as shiny new…

Here's a quick and simple guide to the effect of the budget on businesses from our friends at Business Link, which also has a link to the Directgov site giving the picture for its effect on the individual citizen.

During my chequered career as a…

I'm reposting this blog here on Peter's behalf as I've decided to not to have forums on the Group pages...

Originally posted by Peter Lambert Hartley on March 23, 2010 at 11:56pm in Surrey Business Club...

This is probably the hardest job to perform in the UK, and the…

Coincidentally, following my (controlled) blog-rant - see below - about the insanity of not having a photo of yourself to post online, I just got an email from NiS Member Lottie Skuthe-Cook letting me know about a photography session at Regus Guildford next Thursday morning - 22 April - which could be the answer to that problem.

Samantha Falconer tells me places are filling up fast, so if you'r e interested, give her a call asap. Here are the…

I have a confession to make: I'm no oil painting (as any of you who've met me would confirm :0) That goes double right now, as I am sporting a magnificent black eye, for reasons which are too complex to explain here...

However I do post my photo on profiles all around the web. Not vanity, just sanity. I want people to know I'm a real person, warm, approachable - in fact, as Ecademy founder…

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