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Tips And Tidbits
Issue 42 - August 2007

MINI Steps

We’re pleased to present our new MINI Note-working Success System, designed especially for people who want to start small and work their way up to our larger systems.

The MINI Note-Working Success System includes eight note cards each month plus two bonus cards and a travel kit your first month. Options are three-month or 12-month contracts with the choice of monthly billing with the year contract.

Now we have three system options: the mini version, the lite version with 30 cards per month and the full version with 60 note cards per month. Choose which is best for your time and budget and start Note-Working today!

All our systems include...
- NEW note cards shipped directly to you
each month, exclusive to our subscribers
- bonus note cards and extra envelopes
- tracking sheet
- sample messages
- travel kit or rosewood organizer

Blogs Are a Hit
We have come full circle. Communication has gone from handwriting notes to typing letters to sending e-mails to blogging, and now we’re back again to the handwritten note. What is unusual gets noticed, and a handwritten note gets extra attention. In my periodic foray into the blogging world, I ran across blog entries I thought would pique your interest.

Thom Singer, who wrote the entry “Handwritten Notes Are Cool”. He also provides a free networking quotient quiz. I took the quiz and found that I’m branded as an Expert Networker. Take the quiz – I’m sure dozens of you will get the high honors, too.
Another blogger, Tim Wackel, talked about “Five Handwritten Notes You Should Be Sending Now”. And Lori Richardson wrote about the benefits of using our Note-Working Success System in her blog “ Summer Sales Effectiveness School – Keep in Contact With Handwritten Notes”.

Check out the blogs, then start Note-Working and stand out from the crowd!

It’s Not Email
Have you ever written an email and then accidentally sent it to the wrong person? Yikes! The good thing about mailing a note card is that your chance of making a silly mistake like that is slim to none. Writing a note card allows you to slow down enough to organize your thoughts, carefully plan the message and present the image you have worked so hard to project. So next time you reach out to someone, think twice about how you’ll send it. By sending a handwritten note to a client, vendor, coworker or prospect, you’re sure to bring your business in the forefront of their mind in a positive way.

Foster Winning Teammates with Regular Contact

Lori Richards, owner of Score More Sales, generously offered to share her e-book “ Winning Teammates” with the readers of our newsletter. She presents the importance of creating strategic alliances to increase sales – and the importance of regular contact with these referral partners. Think about this… “The main thing is to make a plan to contact everyone in your network on a regular basis to build and develop a relationship. Newer studies show that it now takes 17 to 20 ‘touches’ to make enough of an impression with a prospective business partner to do business – touches include email, phone calls, face-to-face meetings and snail (postal) mail.”

Lori also writes a monthly column for the National Networker website. Take a look; the website it is chock full of good information.

Use Handwritten Notes in Your Follow-up Strategies

How are your networking efforts working for you? Keith Ferrazzi says that FOLLOW-UP will set you above 95% of your peers. And a handwritten note that gets opened and makes an impression that lasts will help your follow-up effort become even more effective. Read more about making the most of your networking efforts.