Business networking is increasingly the reason one fails or succeeds in business. Over the years, those who work their way up the ladder of success find it is in no small part to making good friends in business circles. Business networking is a natural act for most sales and business development professionals, but those in other occupations are often challenged by the process. Technologists used to have great job security and pesky recruiters constantly presented career opportunities. While you work on your business plan keep in mind business networking is as old as business, which in turn is as old as the human experience.

Business networking online is like social networking; in fact, it’s often described as social networking for business professionals with online access. It’s also something that happens spontaneously all the time, online right?

The following places can be fun places to meet people with similar professional interests:
• Online Chat Rooms
• Business Networking Sites
• Facebook and related sites
• MySpace if done right.

Offline events like trade shows or conventions that are geared towards any specific industry are essential to attend in order to network and build relationships. People attend those events knowing that they will other people have connections within that specific industry, and are frequently there looking to build contacts of their own. Eventually, even the well-disguised sycophant will be unmasked as the self-serving character he truly is, since most people can instinctively sense when the motives of others are not completely altruistic. On that be the first to extend your hand remember when people sense that just by being associated with you, their lives will experience significant increase, they will naturally want to advance the relationship.

AS a Blog writer I even use the blog to establish relationships with my readers other blog writers. So much success to you and your ventures from your online friend…

Obama and My Success Message:

Success: Recovering From Failure

As a Republican or Democrat we as Americans not “Ameri-cants” must rebuild our great nation and the same can be said for my business my families survival and many others depend on what we do from this day forth.

If you’re an hard working business owner or small investor who has been putting in whatever you could during the last few years…Okay, let’s say you’ve been giving it your all. Well, maybe not your *all*, but a good portion of your all. And you’re not seeing any progress. So now what? Are you doomed to failure and never to succeed? No! Keep reading.

One thing that you need to understand is that failure is an event, not a person. It doesn’t define you as a “loser” for the rest of your life—unless you let it. Failure happens to you—it isn’t who you are. You’re not a victim, but it also doesn’t define you. So when it happens (notice I didn’t say “if”), pick yourself up and get ready for the next event in your life.

You must adjust your attitude as you recuperate from a failure. You will rise to your own expectations. Psychologists call this a “self-fulfilling prophecy,” and we are suckers to believe our own words. So adjust your attitude to the positive side of things.

Remember the guy who came up with the brilliant idea to change Coke? Back in the 80s (for those of you who were mere babes during that decade), someone had a stroke of genius—or so he thought. The Coca Cola company decided to compete more with Pepsi, and changed the formulation of their signature product—Coke.

They called it “The New Coke.” It bombed. No one enjoyed the new taste and the calls were immediate to bring back “the old Coke.” After a few months of hemming and hawing, Coca Cola executives brought back the original formula of Coke and ditched the new stuff—and its creator.

So what happened to the guy whose idea this was? He left Coca Cola and began to look for new work. The trouble was, his name was well known in the business community and everyone connected him to the failure that New Coke was. He finally landed an interview in which he got a fair shake: the interviewer asked what he had learned through the problems the New Coke had created.

Naturally, he indicated that he had many lessons learned from the fiasco. He didn’t let failure define him, and he ended up landing the job for which he was interviewing. Good for him, right? But good for the company that hired him, too. They were willing to take a chance on a creative risk-taker who had a very public failure on his record.

Many of those who are considered to be “successful” have had failures dot their lives. Rush Limbaugh, the king of daytime talk radio, was fired multiple times from different radio jobs. He also filed for bankruptcy—twice. So you can see how Limbaugh didn’t permit failure to define him. Those failures were events from which he recovered and moved on. And you should take the same tact when confronted with something that didn’t turn out like you hoped it would.

The point in my life and in the lives of many more like me is that now with more knowledge experience and abilities my life is at a cross roads with a much harder time to accomplish inroads. I say this to pass on the fact that even this signals opportunity and not a disadvantaged during the recession and depression of the past greater amounts of wealth was placed in the hands of more new millionaires than ever before.

How?

By providing more value in smarter economical ways by empowering more people who seek to empower their own lives. We or you or me will improve the lives of others and create new wealth in America and potentially the world.

So lets head into the fact that we as Republicans may have lost a race but we can and will win as we work harder to lift up our fellow man with greater commitment and value. Congratulations Mr. President we too are ready to serve our country from the halls of American business.