Collaboration: The Key to Small Business Growth
One often overlooked key for small business growth and sustained success is collaboration!
In This Episode
In this episode I dive into some of my story on business growth and how collaboration with others played a key role. Collaboration is related to but different than partnering. It’s not about merging with others, though that can happen at times, but it’s about helping others, networking and then taking relationship deeper, and ultimately have a collective group of people that want help you and who you help, so that ultimately your business and their business grows!
Listen in on why collaboration is often looked, how to develop more collaborative relationships and enjoy the stories I tell along the way that you can draw from to help you in your business!
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Topics Covered:
- Defining Collaboration in Business
- Going beyond “networking”
- My first meeting with Mari Smith
- Collaborating at Conferences
- Finding like minded people
- The collaboration that resulted in the Doable Social Summit
- Tools for Collaboration: Facebook Groups and Triberr
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Some of my “Collaborators”…
Mike’s keys to conference collaboration….
- Don’t go to all the sessions!
- Plan ahead who you want to meet
- Network ahead of time via social media
- Be the connector to get people together
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I’m a Indiana Hoosier native where basketball is the top sport. Every team heads to the locker room at halftime to evaluate the first half and create a updated plan for the second half. That plan includes adjustments based on reviewing what worked and what didn’t.
