How a $5,000 student loan became a multi-million dollar business.

“People should always introduce themselves to the wallflower in the room. Nobody attends a networking and wants to be alone.

It was 1986 and I had just started my little enterprise a year earlier. The concept of working “on” my business and not just “in” my...

Beth Misner has spent her live finding creative ways to incorporate service to others into her professional life. From being a...

As the Founder of BNI (the world’s largest referral networking organization), I often get asked about the best way to end a conversation...

In business, we are often confronted with problems that seem to be a no-win situation. While I acknowledge that they sometimes exist, I...

What should you do when you receive a referral? Please watch and share this video from Mike Macedonio about referrals and helping others...

A referral is a referral, right? Well, not so much. Once a referral source has given you the name of a person to call, what more could...

We don’t teach networking in colleges and universities hardly anywhere in the world — we didn’t when I went to school, and we still don’t...

In Good to Great, Jim Collins opened up a whole new paradigm for many people. He showed us that “bad” is not the enemy of “great.” “Good”...

I love social media. I am active on social media. I have found that social media is fantastic for ‘brand building’ – and I also believe...

We’ve all heard the advice: “you become the people you hang out with.” This means that you not only need to surround yourself with...

Recently, I wrote about the Seven Ways to Better Networking which was based on a survey I conducted of almost 3,400 people around the...

Elizabeth's Note: I am proud to issue my Elizabeth's Best Award to Dr. Ivan Misner and Brennan Scanlon for their new book Avoiding the...

How many times have you seen an entrepreneur, maybe even yourself, go to a networking event, meet a lot of people, and then leave and...