Networking: A Key Strategy for Small Business
Being Pro-active in the Community

This no-nonsense workshop workshop is for you if you want to expand your customer base by:

  • Learning how to enthusiastically promote your business by networking
  • Teaching your employees to do the same
  • Crafting the ideal ELEVATOR Speech
  • Learning to network successfully during the workshop with fellow businesses
  • What to do when you get a prospective client’s business card
  • Asking the right questions during a networking event

In today’s over-retailed world, networking at community events and among colleagues is a critical strategy to insure survival and growth. Networking is a relatively new concept for small business owners, but when done professionally can lead to explosive growth and profitability in their business.

Find out the answers to questions such as. . .

  • How do I spread the good news about my business?
  • How do I teach my employees to network and promote my business?
  • What do I say?
  • How do I say it with confidence?
  • What does a great networker do?
  • What questions do I ask?
  • How do I make a lasting impression on a potential client?

Throughout this program, I will focus on helping you create the “Ideal Elevator Speech” for your business. (Ideal means a personalized powerful description of your business that will motivate potential customers to visit you place of business.)

What you will learn at this workshop.

  • The art of crafting a powerful “ Elevator Speech”
  • The fun of standing and telling the world.
  • The do’s and don’t’s of networking
  • How to use Business Cards
  • It’s not about you
  • When do you talk about your business?
  • The opportunity to network at the workshop
  • What do you say when a prospect shows up at your business?
  • And much, much, more

I will coach you in applying these principles in your business, and also offer a follow-up program to support you in fulfilling your project.

February 24, 2009
"Roy’s session with our Teams re-energized them and instilled a sense of pride in doing professional work. There was a switch that was flipped for many our employees – For the first time, they saw themselves as impassioned professional sales people, doing professional work, rather than Garden Centre floor staff. Comments from the group included “Wow, I can hardly wait for my next shift, I just want to get out there and connect with our customers!”
Leanne Johnson, General Manager
Gardenworks, (8 retail locations) Burnaby BC


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