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Networking Magic: Find the Best - from Doctors, Lawyers, and Accountants to Homes, Schools, and Jobs |  | Authors: Rick Frishman, Jill Lublin, Mark Steisel
Publisher: Adams Media
Category: Book
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Rating:  10 reviews
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 1593370202
Dewey Decimal Number: 302
UPC: 045079700208
EAN: 9781593370206
ASIN: 1593370202
Publication Date: September 1, 2004
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Make connections that lead to the best contacts, the best opportunities, and the best solutions! Forget networking of the 80s and 90s, which meant handing out business cards at stale "meet-and-greets." Today's networking can hook up a potential homeowner with the right house, a lonely single with the right life partner, and a working mom with the right child-care facility for her toddler. Networking Magic is a revolutionary concept that shows you how to find the best in all aspects of life. Whether you're looking for the most lucrative job, the highest-rated child care facility, the leading medical specialist-and virtually anything else-this is the one book that gets you on the inside track to the top experts, the highest quality services, and the least-expensive products. Filled with resources, checklists, and step-by-step instructions that readers can easily follow and apply, Networking Magic is a motivational reference that gives all the information they need to succeed.
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 What I've Read Lately: Networking Magic April 14, 2009
J. T. Pedersen (Howell, Michigan)
Today, we are beginning to see a resurgence in networking. In many ways it seems so `old school' to folks. After all, we have the internet now, job boards, email, social networking, blogs, and a billion other ways to avoid talking with one another directly. So why do what our `Dad' did, picking up a phone, or UGH, getting in the car and driving to meet with people at some drab event?
The reality is that people, in my opinion, are slowly starting to realize that nothing can trump an established personal relationship with another person. In times of need, who are you going to count on more? The g'zillion Twitter followers you have? Or, Sue, who you've come to know at the local coffee shop? The internet is indeed a productivity multiplier for the networker, the likes of which we've never seen before. But even so, again, in my opinion, it represents but one facet of how we should develop our networks.
Like so many things, once something becomes important to you (e.g. networking) you start to, some pun intended, `magically' discover things that would've been invisible before. So, it was in the interest of learning more about networking that led me to find Networking Magic. Indeed, in the interest of `networking,' I found it entertaining to find I personally knew one of the authors' many contributors. My, it is a small world after all...
Networking Magic, published in 2004, remains fairly current. The only area it tends to show it's age is when discussing the internet. References to `300 million' people actively using the internet, discussion groups, and the lack of social networking are specific examples. At it's core, the discussion of how to network is largely independent of the mediums used (e.g. phone, email, in-person, social networks, etc.). So the book's value remains intact.
An aside, I do find it interesting just how easily some material can date itself. Some books, like others in my reading list, were written decades in the past. Yet, they seem as though they were finished just yesterday.
Some networking books take an academic, life experience, or `what you should know,' approach to covering the topic. In Networking Magic, Rick & Jill take a practitioners approach. They identify nearly a dozen specific networking topics, such as setting your priorities, evaluating networking groups, and hosting dinner events. Each of these key topics are discussed in depth, specific real life examples are given by their contributors, and closing discussions on how they can work for you.
I particularly appreciated the practitioner approach in this book. It seemed to flow in the truest of networking forms: the authors seem to genuinely want to help the reader. After all, networking is about relationships, about giving without expecting to receive, and it was nice to read a book that seemed to `walk' it's own talk, per se.
My recommendation: If you're new to networking, this is a good book to help you learn the bases. It is not constrained to the beginning networker though. I consider myself somewhere in-the-middle if you will and found it offered good refreshers, some new ideas, and helped pull things together nicely. Even if you're a master networker, the book is useful not only in ideas you might not already have, but in the list of sources they cite.
See the original review at www.jtpedersen.net
 Hollow people March 9, 2007
amccom
5 out of 13 found this review helpful
Boy, what a worthless book on brown nose techniques. One idea that is plain garbage is that if you do lots for other people they will pay back in kind by 2 to 10 fold. What garbage. Please do not waste your money on this book. I cannot believe the nonsense. After you give all you got to people after they see you have nothing left they will just move on. Boy, are these writers living in a dream world? It is a book about suck up that will just make you look like a fool. If I used most of their methods I would be a laughing stock at work. Those who exceed step on other faces, that is how it really works. My rating is really a minus 10 stars but they do not have that rating available. If I could I would return the book but it is probabbly better I burn it so there is one less copy available for some simple minded soul to read. If you want to be exploited and left holding the bag then read this book..
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amccom
 It must be just me - but not a lot new, we just need to do it July 11, 2006
G. E. Kugler (Big Arm, Montana United States)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Networking is over done in my estimation. It smacks of manipulation and using people for the wrong reasons. If you're into it probably a great book, just doesnt float my boat.
An excellent book covering all aspects of Networking June 18, 2005
Bob Burg (Jupiter, Florida)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This really is a great book. It covers practically every major principle of win/win networking imaginable and is an excellent guidebook for anyone who would like to learn how to master this valuable life and business skill.
The authors are both successful business people who, as part of their businesses, utilize the very skills they teach in this book.
Networking Magic will make an excellent gift for the college graduate, seasoned business pro, and everyone else who has a need to build a far-reaching network of valuable relationships and resources. The authors understand and communicate so well that the best and most successful networkers are those who take great pleasure in being an asset to others.
Job well done!
Wonderful information November 3, 2004
Beatrice Joyner
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
Mr. Frishman is an highly entertaining author & speaker who is willing and able to share his successes in order to help others achieve theirs. Thanks for sharing!! Bea Joyner
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