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Title: The Secrets of Savvy Networking
Subtitle: How to Make the Best Connections for Business and Personal Success
Author: Susan RoAne
Narrator: Susan RoAne
Format: Abridged
Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-25-00
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 22 votes
Genres: Business, Career Skills
Publisher's Summary:
Now Susan RoAne, best-selling author of How to Work a Room, offers her surefire methods for developing your networking techniques and resources, and turning your networks into a ladder for success. Let her show you how to obtain leads, referrals, and contacts; identify your networking gaps and fill them in; employ essential and appropriate follow-up procedures; make effective use of business tools, from cards to the phone to lunches and the office grapevine; choose the professional organizations that will give you the highest visibility; and best meet your professional goals to bring you the most personal satisfaction.
Critic Reviews:
"A must for these transitional times...whether you're building a championship football team or a career." (Bill Walsh, former head coach, San Francisco 49ers)
Members Reviews:
Pretty good cd overall.
Great CD. Made me feel more confident when networking. Nothing too groundbreaking- but helpful tips to be reminded. Great for someone who has difficulty networking. It doesn't really tell you how (not a step-by-step improve your skills) but what to do once contact is made.
Superb!
Another superb book from Susan RoAne - absolutely love the 10 Tips from the Mingling Mavens!
Superficial, badly written, and not about networking. Besides that, great.
I just finished listening to this on my iPod yesterday, and feel more than a little ripped off. Why:
1) Ms RoAne has an incredibly annoying, high-pitched, Minnie Mouse voice. Reading it herself makes it a very unpleasant experience.
2) The book is not about networking. There's a lot about very basic etiquette -- stuff like, if you're out on a business lunch, don't order lobster, caviar and chamagne. Gee, thanks.
3) She's an incredibly bad writer. She loves cliches, and she skips from one superficial topic to the next. For instance, I was listening to the chapter on business lunches. The second it started, I thought to myself, "I'll bet this woman is going to use the phrase "break bread", which is an incredible cliche. I wonder how many seconds it will take until she does?" I started counting. It took six.
4) The book is way out of date. It hasn't been revised in a long, long time. She writes about "car phones" when I think she means cell phones -- perhaps they hadn't been invented when she wrote this. She writes at some length about the etiquette of using fax machines. I, and most people, rarely use one.
This book reeks of a fairly ham-handed attempt to make maximum money with minimum effort. Don't buy it.
Right on the funny money
This book was published over a decade ago, but I still seem to overhear all the buzzwords the author fandances with, as well as the underlying ideology of genderized success-mongering. It's not what you do or what mission you might have, if any (other than your own vaunting or subterranean ambition) but who you are as a function of who you know and can pretend to know. An old story, but always re-occurring in the dress of the era, now micro-era.
A terrible book, really, but I think the people for the whom the title has allure will actually like the thing. Even if it is "out of date".
I have to say, Ms.