Ivan Misner
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/ Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of BNI
Ivan Misner is author of Networking Like a Pro, 2nd Edition (Entrepreneur Press 2017). He is also the founder and chief visionary officer of BNI, a professional business networking organization headquartered in Charlotte, N.C. and co-author, with Hazel Walker and Frank De Raffele, of Business Networking and Sex: Not What You Think.
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Use these advanced networking tips to make the most of your networking time.
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Networking
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Figuring out the answer to these three questions makes choosing which networking events to attend a piece of cake.
Networking
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Networking
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Take a look at the five places people gather to network to determine which will be best for you.
Networking
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Use these questions to talk less, listen more, and make yourself stand out in a crowd of networkers.
Networking
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Networking should be less about you and more about THEM, and parenting helped me realize it.
Networking
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