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Andy Lopata
Labelled ‘Mr Network’ by The Sun, Andy Lopata is one of the UK’s leading business networking strategists. The co-author of two books on networking, his first book, 'Building a Business on Bacon and Eggs' looked at how to run business breakfast meetings, while his second '...and Death Came Third!' received worldwide acclaim and reached number 2 on Amazon.co.uk on its launch. Andy is a featured columnist for the US magazine ‘The National Networker’ and has a regular column in Business Matters magazine and 4 Community magazine, as well as being quoted in national press, including The Sunday Times and The Guardian. For eight years, Andy was Managing Director of Business Referral Exchange, one of the UK's leading referral-focused networking groups with over 2,000 member companies. Andy now works with companies from one-man bands to global names such as NatWest Bank, Merrill Lynch and Capita to help them realise the full potential from their networking. He is also a former vice-president of the Professional Speakers Association.
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Thursday, May 01, 2008

Podcasting in Plain English

Common Craft have done it again! Just ahead of my new weekly podcast for Business Matters magazine, they have created the excellent 'Podcasting in Plain English'.

Enjoy.

2 comments:

SteveBeckett said...

Andy - This is excatly what I am interested in doing - connecting people! How'd you get started?

Andy Lopata said...

Hi Steve

Thanks for your comment. It all depends what you want to get started doing.

If you want to start connecting people effectively, the key is to start getting to know your network, understand their needs and the connections that will work for them and then recognise how they fit together.

The key to connecting others is to take yourself out of the equation, and focus on how others in your network might gel.