Small Business Cross-Promotion is a Lead Booster

">visited the site maybe twice. Today I mistakenly
As a member of several online networkingclicked on the forum and decided to stay on the
communities, it occurred to me that I rarely takesite for a few minutes. I was pleasantly surprised
the time to participate in any of the forums. Yes,by the content available to me. Visiting the sites
people do tend to blatantly use the space forof other businesses made me think about a
spam or just advertising, but you may want tomake-over for my own site. I looked at what
start looking deeper and getting downrightwas on the poster's mind and realized we all
creative about how you select who you can trustpretty much want the same thing - to grow our
to work with. That's the key, finding partners thatbusiness. I decided to spend 15-minutes replying to
you can depend on and who care enough useas many posters as I could. The good news is
their time helping others succeed.that I've received some great advice in my inbox.
Bartering for services has been around forI'm finding some dependable, reliable people to
centuries and I think we, as business people, tendthrow ideas at and who don't mind sharing their
to isolate ourselves, because we don't want tosecrets.
step outside our comfort zone or harm theThe point is, I am more than willing to get up 15
reputations we've built over time. We roll ourminutes earlier each day and check in on the
eyes and shrug with blah attitudes even at thevarious networks I belong to and respond and
suggestion of exchanging expertise or productshave committed to post to as many inquiries as I
when a good fit comes our way.can in that time span. A nice hot cup of freshly
I belong to several small business networks. Onebrewed coffee by my side will add to the
in particular, I joined a few months ago and haveambiance of a morning must-do.