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Why I WON'T Buy From LinkedIn

"Hi (insert name), I see we have a number of mutual connections. My company is helping lots of businesses just like yours. Here's a link ...

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News: Networking KnoWho Teams Up With RTC North To Reconnect The Region

Jeni Smith

4 days ago
2 min

News: Networking KnoWho Teams Up With RTC North To Reconnect The Region

North East networking agency, Networking KnoWho, has teamed up with business support provider, RTC North, to help the region’s businesses...

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5 Reasons you DON'T need a networking strategy.

Jeni Smith

Aug 10
3 min

5 Reasons you DON'T need a networking strategy.

Instead of trying to talk you through all of the compelling reasons why you should have a networking strategy within your business, I tho...

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Jeni Smith

Jul 22
3 min

How To Network for Career Progression

My first experience of business networking was whilst I was still at uni. No one really warned me what I was walking into and I still pro...

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Jeni Smith

Jun 30
3 min

Is Face-to-Face Finished?

Could the benefits of remote networking mean that there's no need for face-to-face?

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Jeni Smith

Jun 16
2 min

NEWS: Networking for Growth Programme

Supply Chain North East has teamed up with networking specialist Jeni Smith, from Networking KnoWho

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Internal vs External Thinking: what, and how, do you think?

Jeni Smith

Jun 7
4 min

Internal vs External Thinking: what, and how, do you think?

One of my lock-down loves is Audible. I discovered it last month and have inhaled three books since. I've always struggled with reading t...

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Jeni Smith

Jun 1
5 min

The Chemistry of Connections

So when we're out networking and meet someone new, we shake hands and this mutual happy shot is released building a small bond between us

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Connection Marketing: How to add value to your network

Jeni Smith

May 24
3 min

Connection Marketing: How to add value to your network

'Connection Marketing' is a concept I've been talking about for a couple of years now, but I just realised I've never actually written ab...

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Jeni Smith

May 18
4 min

Three Pillars of a Powerful Network

In the new, post-lockdown world we can't yet predict what the long-term economic effects of Covid-19 are going to be. I don't think my br...

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Jeni Smith

May 11
3 min

5 Top Tips: Where to Network

Without a doubt this is the questions I get asked most. Where should I go networking? What events would you recommend? Which are the best...

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Has Covid–19 Changed Social Interaction Forever?

Jeni Smith

May 5
3 min

Has Covid–19 Changed Social Interaction Forever?

Guest blog by Jill McKinney from Sunderland Software City This short term situation has forced people to change the way they interact soc...

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The Importance of Network Diversity: Who do you know?

Jeni Smith

Apr 27
3 min

The Importance of Network Diversity: Who do you know?

If you're only networking with people who see the world the same way you do what will you learn from each other?

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Generational Networking: Online vs Offline relationships

Jeni Smith

Apr 21
4 min

Generational Networking: Online vs Offline relationships

Last week my wonderful, and ridiculously talented, friend Holly Peacock-Goodwin sent me an infographic depicting the ways different gener...

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Introvert vs Extrovert: Lock-down Exhaustion

Jeni Smith

Apr 15
3 min

Introvert vs Extrovert: Lock-down Exhaustion

Three weeks into lock-down and I'm completely shattered. It gets to 9 am and I'm ready for a nap, by 1 pm I'm so exhausted I need to clos...

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Lock-down: The Importance of Human Interaction

Jeni Smith

Apr 7
3 min

Lock-down: The Importance of Human Interaction

Before lock-down we were living in a time when most of us shied away from social interaction, and instead chose the safer option of our s...

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Remote Networking: how to build and maintain relationships during lock-down

Jeni Smith

Mar 28
3 min

Remote Networking: how to build and maintain relationships during lock-down

Here's a blog I never imagined I'd have to write! But here we are, a week into what can only be described as the most bizarre situation w...

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How to Network: 5 Things I Wish I'd Known When I First Started Networking

Jeni Smith

Feb 28
3 min

How to Network: 5 Things I Wish I'd Known When I First Started Networking

Getting to work with students, young people and new entrepreneurs who are just starting out on their journey's is amazing! Seeing the ter...

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Five Top Tips: How to get OUT of a conversation

Jeni Smith

Jan 28
3 min

Five Top Tips: How to get OUT of a conversation

When it comes to networking people are often worried about how they’re going to start up a conversation with someone. What if I’m left on...

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Jeni Smith

Jan 6
2 min

New Year Networking Resolution

It's that time of year again! Everyone is making resolutions to improve their lives for the year ahead. Go to the gym more, spend more ti...

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