So what happens when you stop networking? …Isn’t it obvious? It should’ve been obvious to me – the guy who wrote a book about networking in a non-salesy way. And yet, here I am. It’s scary how many stories I’m hearing/reading of freelancers who are struggling right now. Some are fine. Some are unaffected – even thriving. But I’m seeing more and more admitting that they’re struggling. Even people who I thought were absolutely fine…
A few weeks back, I did my first Anti-Sell talk in a long while. It was for The Indie List, a freelance marketplace site in Ireland. I wanted to mention it and share it on here because it covered a lot of ground – not just what’s in the book, but also some stuff that only appears on this blog, and also I believe some other stuff that doesn’t appear in either. So if you…
There’s two things I don’t like when it comes to business advice: 1) wishy-washy advice, and 2) clickbaity titles. …Aaand this post has both! 😂 Sorry. On the plus side, I’ll get straight to the point with what the actual advice is. Your superpower… 🦸♀️ There’s something I think a lot of freelancers are guilty of (myself included, especially years ago) that – with a little change – could make a big difference in how…
I published Anti-Sell back in 2019 – but occasionally I’ll randomly remember an old memory that could’ve been a chapter in the book if I’d remembered it at the time. It’s happened a fair few times now: when I remembered the time I tried to hard-sell someone, and – more recently – when a guy full-on angry-shouted at me at the first ever business networking event I went to. I’ve just remembered another one: the…
I’ve written a book about networking, a process where (well, up until recently) you primarily went out and met people face-to-face, often at business networking events. As a result, you’d probably think I’m some outgoing and extroverted guy, who lives for networking! …But I’m really not. In fact, while I wouldn’t exactly call myself introverted, I can get a little anxious going to places I don’t know, in order to meet people I don’t know.…
