The Secrets of Savvy Networking: How to Make the Best Connections for Business and Personal Success [ABRIDGED] [AUDIOBOOK] (Audio Cassette)

by Susan RoAne (Author, Reader)

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal
Reciprocity, RoAne (How To Work a Room, Audio Reviews, LJ 9/15/91) says, is the core of networking. She suggests joining organizations, finding a mentor, and helping other people achieve their goals as a means to building one's network. Unfortunately, she offers few secrets. For instance, sending "thank you" notes is surely good advice, but it is also a well-known and practiced courtesy. The author wanders from her topic, particularly when discoursing on business etiquette. At times she recites lists of appropriate behaviors with little elaboration. Only the largest business collections need consider.?Mark Guyer, Stark Cty. Dist. Lib., Canton, Ohio
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

“Networking...is probably more complicated now than at any other time in history. Susan RoAne teaches us how to maintain a personal touch amid all the high-tech wizardry...Her narrative technique takes a no-nonsense, straightforward approach. The listener is confident that she knows her subject well as she moves quickly from one important tip to another. The book lends support to any working person facing the changing times of earning a living.”
—AudioFile magazine

--This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Macmillan Audio; Abridged edition (March 15, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1559273437
• ISBN-13: 978-1559273435
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,046,448 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Sound Concept; Unsound Delivery, June 16, 2002

By	Sam Horodezky (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Secrets of Savvy Networking: How to Make the Best Connections for Business and Personal Success (Paperback)

This book has a lot of potential, but mostly fails to teach things you wouldn't have otherwise thought of yourself.
There are several useful suggestions scattered throughout the book, but no sustained sections of good quality writing. Every time I came upon something that I wanted to read more details about, the author skipped onto to some other self-evident tangent. Also the author uses a lot of examples from her public speaking life, which are generally uninteresting and not relevant to most people's business life.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Superficial, badly written, and not about networking. Besides that, great., October 10, 2008

By	A reader "A reader" (San Bruno, California United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Secrets of Savvy Networking: How to Make the Best Connections for Business and Personal Success (Paperback)

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.

6 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very informative reading!, March 31, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Secrets of Savvy Networking: How to Make the Best Connections for Business and Personal Success (Paperback)

Susan Roane touches several aspects of networking, many of which will add a new perspective of how you may or may not continue to operate in the business world. This book will make you cognizant of everything from business card etiquette to the importance of a mentor. Great introduction for a novice networker; super review for a pro.