by Shane Grantham | Sep 20, 2017
I received a phone call one Friday afternoon from someone I didn’t immediately recognize. The caller had a computer issue they needed fixed. They mentioned we were connected on LinkedIn and then I realized where I knew them from. They didn’t ask many...
by Shane Grantham | Jun 17, 2017
I’ve been attending networking groups for 11 years on a weekly basis and it has definitely kept me in business and made business fun, too. Some weeks I do two meetings, but usually it’s one. All this networking translates into attending many different...
by Shane Grantham | Apr 5, 2017
When I’m driving my car, sometimes I forget there is advertising on both sides of it letting people know I repair computers. It’s a very simple design, permanently affixed to it. One of my clients who had a sign company installed it around 2007 for around...
by Shane Grantham | Mar 23, 2017
It’s hard to know the exact number, but I have probably seen over a thousand business cards in my business lifetime. I like looking at business cards of my clients and networkers to see the different designs, arrangements and fonts. Every so often I encounter a...
by Shane Grantham | Feb 1, 2017
After eleven years of weekly networking, I have heard many commercials from fellow business networkers. One topic we networkers need to avoid in our commercials is personal problems or struggles. Telling the networking group about your medical issues, vehicle or...
by Shane Grantham | Oct 3, 2016
Being a one-person business can pull you in many directions as some of you know. The smartphone is my mobile office and makes it easy to be anywhere and communicate with anyone. Phone calls, texts, emails and messages from social media sites all come in to my...