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Chat it up with an old colleague or your son’s soccer coach and you never know what gem you’ll come away with. You can wind up with a new client, a lead on a new employee or a brilliant new business idea.
In a challenging economy, networking is more
important than ever. This month, we’ll show you how
to refine your networking skills to give you a leg up
on the competition.
Networking is a key marketing strategy that deserves a game
plan. Make an effort to regularly expand your contacts by seeking opportunities to showcase your business and increase your visibility.
Target a specific number of new contacts each week. Get out of
your office. Set up lunch meetings with perspective clients and potential partners in complementary businesses. Mix and mingle
at conferences. Volunteer for industry-related committees and
offer yourself up as an expert on panel presentations.
Virtually everyone you come in contact with can be a resource for sales leads, business know-how or referrals.Throw a wide net. Connect with neighbors and alumni organizations and reconnect with ex-bosses and former colleagues. And make sure your networking efforts extend to social media outlets like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and the newly launched "I Hate Filing Club" Community Forums!
Having an online networking presence is fast becoming an essential tool for every small business.
Always be prepared to promote your business with a prepared pitch. Keep it short—thirty seconds or so—punchy and to the point. Introduce who you are, and what you do as specifically as possible and why you’re the go-to-person in your field. End with a call to action: “If you’re in the market for quality widgets at value prices, give me a call and we can discuss your widget needs at length.” Always have your business card ready to pass out, and make sure you ask for theirs, too.
For the pro on the go, the Oxford Executive Document Holder makes organizing all of the business cards, documents and notes you collect on your networking calls a snap!
The goodbye handshake after a lunch meeting or industry
event is just the beginning of a solid networking strategy.
While you’re still fresh in their minds, send a follow-up
great-to-meet-you e-mail, call and offer to make a referral or
ask for input into a business idea. Then look for opportunities
to touch base with your new contacts down the road, making sure not to wear out your welcome.
Networking isn’t about the quick hit but about building long-term relationships. The best networkers understand they need to strike a balance between their own self-promotional efforts and being a good sounding board and resource for others. Listen as much as you talk and give as good as you get.
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We collect personal information to give you a customized experience and
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•The personal information you choose to give us allows Esselte to
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• We use the personal information you give us to provide you with
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provide free services on our Web site, we may include third party
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•We will deliver targeted advertisements to our customers using the
personal information you give us. Third parties provide us with
advertisements and identify an audience they want to reach. We display
these advertisements on our Web site to people who fit the criteria. We
do not allow advertisers to have access to individual account
information. These advertisements are usually banner ads and promotional
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•We also research our users' demographics, interests, and behavior based
on the information you give us. We compile and analyze this information
in aggregate on an anonymous basis.
•We may use the IP addresses we collect to report aggregate, anonymous
information to our advertisers.
Who collects information?
When you supply personal information on Esselte's site, you share that
information only with Esselte and its agents appointed to host or manage
the site on Esselte's behalf. Such agents will comply with this privacy
policy and may use your personal information in the same manner it is
used by Esselte.
When companies other than Esselte sponsor promotions, aggregated data
collected on Esselte's site in connection with these promotions may be
shared with the sponsor, but your personal details will not be shared
without your explicit permission.
If you leave our Web site using links to go to other third party Web
sites, those third parties may gather information about you. This
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Other than as stated in this policy, Esselte does not disclose any of
your personal information to third parties without your permission. Read
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Esselte shopping When you buy services or products
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only the information required for the transaction to take place, unless
the product or service provider collects additional information. You may
be required to give these providers certain additional information to
purchase some products or services. These providers have separate
privacy and data collection practices. Esselte has no responsibility or
liability for their policies. The service provider's home page usually
provides a link to its privacy policy.
Third-party data and aggregate data Esselte discloses
aggregate, anonymous statistics (for example, the percentage of users
from the western U.S.) to prospective partners and advertisers and for
other lawful purposes.
Other situations Esselte also may disclose your
information where disclosure is necessary to identify, contact, or bring
legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or
interference with our rights or property rights, the users' rights, or
others' rights. In the same way, Esselte will disclose information when
we reasonably believe disclosure is required by law or to comply with a
legal process served on Esselte or its Web site. We may disclose your
personal information in the good faith belief that we must act under
exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of
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Do I have a choice about how my information is gathered, used and distributed?
Yes. When you log in or register with Esselte, you can choose to receive
newsletters, information, and e-mails. If you change your mind, you can
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information will not be sent in future. It's your choice.
Some of our promotions may request your e-mail address so that you can
receive periodic updates about the status of the promotion. When you
participate in these types of promotions, you will automatically receive
promotion-related e-mail; however, you can choose the no-e-mail option
that some promotions offer. Occasionally these promotion-related e-mail
messages may include targeted advertisements.
What security precautions does Esselte take to protect me?
Your account information and profile are password-protected so that you
are the only one who has access to your personal information. You can
edit your account information and profile by using your logon name and
password. We recommend that you follow these guidelines to protect
yourself:
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compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your password.
•• Do not respond to unsolicited e-mail by giving your password, even if
the e-mail claims to be from us. Esselte will never ask you for your
password in this way.
•• Sign out of your account and close your browser window when you are
done using Esselte's site.
No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100%
secure. Although we are committed to protecting your personal
information, Esselte cannot ensure or warrant the security of any
information you send to us or from our online services, and you do so at
your own risk.
How does Esselte protect my credit card and financial information?
We are committed to protecting the privacy of your credit card and
financial account information. We do not sell, trade, or rent your
financial or credit card information. This includes any information you
keep in your personal account on our Web site. We do not make this
information available to anyone without your permission. We may provide
statistical data on our customers to advertisers, partners, vendors, and
other reputable third parties, which is comprised of aggregate,
anonymous data only, which does not contain any personally identifiable
information. For example, we will not disclose that you purchased a
specific product, but we might disclose statistics on how many customers
have purchased a specific product.
When you enter credit card information on our Web site, we transmit the
information in encrypted format, using industry standard, secure socket
layer (SSL).
E-mail correspondence to Esselte
Because an e-mail address is personal identifying information, we
protect the privacy of the sender by limiting access to these e-mail
messages and keeping them in a secure e-mail system. Most e-mail
messages are deleted after they are responded to, however in certain
cases hard copies or data from certain e-mail correspondence may be kept
on file. Any such copies will also be stored in a secure location. In
the event that Esselte becomes legally obligated to disclose information
obtained from consumers on its web site pursuant to legal or
administrative process, Esselte will take all reasonable steps to remove
personal information from the data where possible.
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Some of our sites use cookies to keep track of the fact that you have
signed in so you don't have to continually enter your username and
password on subsequent visits. Also, we use cookies to deliver content
specific to your interests and for other purposes. (Cookies are small
files downloaded to your computer to track movements within web sites.)
Most browsers are automatically set to accept cookies.
You can make decisions about cookies. You can modify your browser
preferences to accept all cookies, be notified when a cookie is set, or
to reject all cookies. If you decide to reject all cookies, you cannot
participate in Esselte's services that require registration to
participate. There are many sources for additional information about
Internet cookies, and we encourage anyone concerned about the use of
cookies to do more research on the topic so you can make an informed
decision about accepting them from any site.
This policy does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers on our
Web site.
Web beacons
In addition to cookies, Esselte uses a common Internet technology called
"Web beacons" (i.e. "Web bugs," "action tags," "pixel trackers," or
"clear GIFs") on some of its sites. Web beacons are small graphic images
placed on a Web page, Web-based document, or in an e-mail message that
are designed to allow Esselte or a third party to collect certain
information and monitor user activity on our sites. Web beacons are
invisible to the user because they are typically very small (an image
only 1-by-1 pixel) and the same color as the background of the Web page,
document or e-mail message.
Esselte may use Web beacons to collect information such as the IP
address of the computer that the Web beacon is sent to, the URL of the
page the Web user comes from, and the time the Web beacon is activated
(such as when you view the Web page, advertisement, or e-mail that
contains the Web beacon). We may also use Web beacons to display e-mails
in the appropriate HTML or text format. From time to time, we may permit
third parties to place Web beacons on our sites or in e-mails sent on
our behalf for purposes of collecting the same types of information
specified above.
What about the privacy of children?
Esselte is a general audience Web site and does not request the age of
its customers. We urge parents to instruct their children to never give
out their real names, addresses or phone numbers, without permission,
when using the Internet. Esselte recognizes a special obligation to
protect personal information obtained from young children.
In order for children under 12 years of age to participate in online
activities that require registration, we require prior permission from a
parent or guardian (opt-in), and prefer that a parent or guardian do so
instead of the child. In this way, we have a parent or guardian's
consent before we gather any information from the user.
If you detect any inaccuracy in your account or personal information, we
will be happy to make any changes you deem appropriate.
Since offerings and technologies change, we reserve the right, at our
discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of our policy at
any time. If policy changes are substantial, we will notify each of our
customers individually through e-mail, and provide an opportunity to
delete or amend account details. Please check back here for changes.
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