LinkedIn. Facebook. Twitter. All the social media sites. Who needs old-fashioned face-to-face networking?
Maybe a lot of us, according to two highly successful entrepreneurs: Lillian Bjorseth, president of Duoforce Enterprises Inc., Lisle; and Pat Palmer, CEO, Marketplace Partners LLC, a Rolling Meadows consulting and marketing services firm.
For both, establishing trust with your connections is key. For both, that's pretty much traditional networking.
Context first:
• Bjorseth, who teaches people how to establish a two-way, business-producing relationship with other networkers, is as successful a traditional networker as you will find. Yet her LinkedIn profile was among the site's most-viewed profiles in 2012. READ MORE
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