Orthodox Biz Blog

Welcome to my blog. Please write me with your questions and comments. Many thanks to Glen Chancy for putting up my picture for me.

HOW WAS TUESDAY? Fascinating. I attended a Best of the Northwest business awards event in the northwest area of Philadelphia, which includes the neighborhoods of Germantown, Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill. My friend Nancy Malmed received

the award for the area’s best dance studio, Wissahickon Dance Academy, where I take yoga classes.

WHAT FASCINATED ME TODAY? For the first half hour of the event, there was a Speed Networking activity. Business owners lined up in two rows facing one another as is done in square dancing, and we had three minutes to introduce ourselves in pairs to each other and exchange business cards. It was energizing to meet so many people in such a short time who were interested in and supportive of each other’s businesses. As an entrepreneur of a home based, multilevel marketing business, it was an excellent way to become better known professionally in my own neighborhood without setting up a storefront shingle.

WILL I BE ABLE TO HELP OTHERS BECAUSE OF THE SPEED NETWORKING? Potentially, yes. For instance, I met two women who would like me to visit them at work. They both felt I might have some products and services that would be marketable in their stores. Besides this, I collected about a dozen business cards of people with whom I now feel a sense of community.

HOW DOES NETWORKING STRENGTHEN THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY? In sharing our gifts and talents with one another in a spirit of love, we are following the second great commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself”. St. John Chrysostom wrote “If this commandment were duly observed…..There would be no poverty, no unbounded wealth if there were love, but only the good parts that come from each. From the one we should reap its abundance, and from the other its freedom from care and we should neither have to undergo the anxieties of riches nor the dread of poverty.” And what helps two helps the whole community to prosper.

AND WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Many blessings,

Dianne Tzouras

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