Social Capital Mentor

What is Social Capital?

Social Capital is the quality by which a person’s perceived savvy, acumen and grace provide access and opportunity in the world. Ultimately, it is the solvency of the Self. David Bransten Director, Documentarian Like the other, more commonly understood forms of capital (financial and intellectual), Social Capital can be accrued or banked. Like all sciences, it can be [...]

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Great Seminar Last Night

Last night’s seminar, Social Capital for the Entrepreneur, was a great success. It’s always a good sign when we have to stay an hour later than planned because of all the questions. Thank you to everyone who attended and participated. As always in these types of events, you’ve given us additional food for thought and [...]

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How to Network - A Networking Event Process

Maybe you already know how to network You’re right at home at a networking event. You recognize the importance of a strong social network. You’re the King of the Elevator Pitch and you can small talk over cocktails and appetizers like you were born idle rich. But beyond a very impressive stack of business cards, what do [...]

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Is it Popularity or Social Capital?

Craig forwarded me an interesting posting in the Wall Street Journal concerning the importance of office popularity. You might think you left the world of cliques and in-crowds behind when you left high school. You’d be wrong. The benefits of being popular extend all the way into the adult workplace, based on research in the latest issue [...]

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Develop Your Social Capital; Turn Contacts into Relationships

Tony Adam just wrote a great post about the quality of your business relationships on his awesome blog. I’ve been thinking all day about his words and I can’t emphasize how much I agree. I think we have the same goal here: to help people realize the power of Social Capital. It’s definitely not about [...]

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Social Capital Seminar in San Francisco Feb 24

We’ve just been asked to run a short seminar at Sasha Vasilyuk’s Meetup group next week. We’re going to cover Social Capital and how it relates to some timely issues: surviving the recession, presenting yourself well, closing more deals and conducting a successful business lunch or power lunch. Should be fun and informative. If you’re [...]

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Avoid the Chopping Block: How to Keep Your Job in a Recession

The statistics are grim. According the the Department of Labor, the month of January alone saw the unemployment rate rise from 7.2% to 7.6%. In terms of lives, that’s around 598,000 directly affected. It’s anybody’s guess how many are indirectly victimized by the recession. Over the last 12 months, the number of unemployed people has [...]

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College Degrees aren’t Enough - You Need More

Building your social capital helps you get more financial capital (money, jobs, clients, projects, partnerships). This is now more important that it has been in years. If you happen to need convincing, read on to get the latest report on our economic backdrop. This is from Bloomberg a couple hours ago: Job Losses in U.S. Spreading [...]

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How to Build Relationships? Try Being Friendly

I know it sounds simple, but as Caelan Huntress points out in his article, Build your Business by Making Friends, people often are too aggressive when networking and trying to connect with others. They try to sell, sell, sell. Caelan reminds us to take it easy and focus on the person. He sums it up [...]

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Social Capital Leads to Financial Capital: Dan Schwabel Interviews Juliette Powell

I haven’t yet read Juliette Powell’s new book 33 Million People in the Room,but I came across this interview with Dan Schwabel and my interest is piqued. There’s no shortage of information out there these days about the value of social networking. Yes, Facebook, Linkedin, and Twitter are important for online social media marketing. We know [...]

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