online - Home - ABN Community2024-03-29T05:40:01Zhttps://www.yourabn.co.uk/home/feed/tag/onlineDon't Sweat - Your Answers Please!https://www.yourabn.co.uk/home/don-t-sweat-your-answers-please2020-06-11T11:26:06.000Z2020-06-11T11:26:06.000ZAndrew Smithhttps://www.yourabn.co.uk/members/AndrewSmith<div><p>Thank-you to all of you who have completed<strong> our 'Don't Sweat' networking preferences survey here on ABN Community or on our <a href="https://abnworks.co.uk/" target="_blank">ABN services website</a></strong>. It's great reading about your networking likes/dislikes and chatting about your plans</p>
<p>We promise It won't take you long at all to answer the 10 questions - just over 3 minutes is the average time taken!</p>
<p><strong>Please scroll down to the survey link on either website. We look lorward to reading your answers</strong></p>
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<p><strong>To all our members, if you would like to use this time to work on your networking skills, click <a href="https://abnworks.co.uk/services/training/" target="_blank">HERE</a> to find out more about this training, add a comment below or email andrew@next-business.co.uk. We've taken the audits/training down to the ABN Gold rate of just £79+vat, which includes an ABN Networking Event Credit for you to use (which has no use-by date!)</strong></p>
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<p>The format was exactly the same as in person, sharing market intel, our updates, offers of help and requests for help. And the feedback was that the meeting was very beneficial - arguably even more vital in these challenging times. We shared more about our respective current challenges and it was great to hear the empathy and support</p>
<p><strong>I was reluctant to ask guests to these meetings in the video format - but not any more! The Jten group had a guest today. And if YOU would like to check out one of these meetings (<span style="text-decoration:underline;">for free</span>) in their current format, please add a comment below or email andrew@next-business.co.uk. There's also more info on the Ten groups <a href="https://abnworks.co.uk/services/ten/" target="_blank">HERE</a></strong></p>
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<p>Of course we all have to keep doing our jobs, running our businesses and trying to deliver services differently for now. We know that relationship-building has to be on-going and is more important than ever just now. So here's what we're doing with ABN services:</p>
<p><a href="https://abnworks.co.uk/services/ten/" target="_blank">ABN 'Ten' Groups</a> - all groups have moved to dial-in meetings from next week onwards. The meetings will follow exactly the same format and the sharing of intel and opportunities and support will be more vital than ever</p>
<p><a href="https://abnworks.co.uk/services/contact-builder/" target="_blank">Contact Builder</a> - our Contact Builders are already holding meetings by Skype, Zoom and phone!</p>
<p><a href="https://abnworks.co.uk/services/training/" target="_blank">Networking skills audits/training</a> - we've taken these online via Zoom. Just let me know if you'd like to use this time to develop your networking skills (there will be ALOT of networking in person once we get past this spell!)</p>
<p><a href="https://abnworks.co.uk/services/networking/" target="_blank">Networking events</a> - our next event isn't until later in April and you're still making bookings for upcoming events (thank-you!)! However, we can only monitor how things develop over the next few weeks</p>
<p><a href="https://abnworks.co.uk/services/gold/" target="_blank">ABN Gold</a> - the majority of membership benefits are online! So it's the ideal time to get stuck into using them</p>
<p><a href="https://abnworks.co.uk/services/advertising/" target="_blank">Advertising on ABN Community </a>- we expect traffic on ABNC to increase in the coming weeks. Please just let us know if a click-thru advert is of interest to you</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>Although all our services are available just now, we also appreciate ths is a worrying time for everyone where cash may be tight. So if there's anything above that you'd like to do, please choose the 20% discounted ABN Gold rates. We'll then donate the difference to some of the many hard-working charities who are ABNC members</strong></span></p>
<p>Let's keep chatting, keep building relationships and get through this even stronger together. And any questions or anything we can help with, please add a comment below or email info@next-business.co.uk</p>
<p>Good luck</p>
<p>Andrew & Jessie</p>
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<div>We're pretty sure you're very aware of what's going on with the Coronavirus situation and most importantly, hope you're safe and healthy. The guidelines we should follow are being regularly repeated and updated in what's a very fast-moving situation that we've never seen before. Please do look after yourself and those around you and take the responsibility to the wider society that we should all accept</div>
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<div>Our offline ABN services are about meeting people, chatting and developing relationships. So we understand this is going to be affected for now. We also completely understand the need to keep developing relationships and opportunities and making sales!</div>
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<div><strong>So please keep your communication and visibility up, even though this will be harder to do in person for the time being. We can still stay in touch via phone, email, ABN Community, social media, meetings by Skype, hangouts, etc and so on. This period WILL pass! And when it does, and we're rapidly catching up on meetings and networking, we'll catch up more quickly if we've kept relationships going</strong></div>
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<div>If you have any questions at all about how to increase your relationship-building activity and online visibility, please just let us know, either by adding any questions to this post or emailing <a href="mailto:andrew@next-business.co.uk" target="_blank">andrew@next-business.co.uk</a> or <a href="mailto:jessie@next-business.co.uk" target="_blank">jessie@next-business.co.uk</a></div>
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<p>Ok, Jessie was actually here to see James Allan of Fluxtastic, our branding gurus. However, I got a little time with Jessie. And James!</p>
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<p>Many thanks to the members who attended this morning's Turn Your Online Networking Into Sales training session. I look forward to seeing you all benefitting from your excellent - and consistent - online activity!</p></div>ABN Training Explained!https://www.yourabn.co.uk/home/abn-training-explained2019-10-21T12:59:07.000Z2019-10-21T12:59:07.000ZAndrew Smithhttps://www.yourabn.co.uk/members/AndrewSmith<div><p>(Latest in my series of explaining our services as succinctly as possible - so here goes!)</p>
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<p><strong>We keep it simple and run <a href="https://abnworks.co.uk/services/training/" target="_blank">two bi-monthly sessions</a> - <a href="https://yourabn.co.uk/events/nst-how-to-network-effectively-every-time-2" target="_blank">Networking Skills Training</a> (offline networking) and <a href="https://yourabn.co.uk/events/turn-your-online-networking-into-sales-3" target="_blank">Turn Your Online Networking Into Sales</a>. Both are 90-minute sessions that take you through how to network as effectively as possible every time. It's £31/£39+vat for each class. And <a href="https://abnworks.co.uk/services/networking/" target="_blank">money-saving ABN Networking Credits</a> can also be used for both sessions</strong></p>
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<p>I hope that helps! And any questions at all, please add a comment below or email andrew@next-business.co.uk</p>
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<p>I've been using Linkedin every working day for years now - but was I using it correctly and effectively? I was doing ok!</p>
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<p>But now thanks to Stacy's expertise, I've made some improvements already and have a much clearer idea of what I need to do and how to do it</p>
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<p>Stacy's training is definitely recommended!</p>
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