Top 5 Networking Tips for Advancing Your Career

Learn the top 5 networking tips to advance your career in this comprehensive article. From attending networking events to leveraging social media and more.

5 Tips to Get More Value From Business Networking

Boost your business networking in 2025 with these five proven tips. Learn how Popl’s digital tools help you connect, follow up, and build lasting relationships with ease and professionalism.

How to Improve Your Professional Communication Skills

Boost your career with stronger communication. Learn expert tips for mastering email, meetings, messaging, and how Popl’s digital business card enhances connection and clarity in every interaction.

Want a Business Mentor? Networking Can Help

Looking for a business mentor? Learn how networking, digital tools like Popl, and strategic outreach can help you find the right mentor to grow your business and accelerate success.

Business Networking and Your Professional Values

When it comes to networking, talk of goal setting, etiquette, and follow up are all common. But what about professional values? Top business networkers know that shared values are the true secret ...

Authenticity and the New Way to Build Your Business Network

Emailing, texting, calling, video meetings, in-person events – all different ways to communicate – and to Gen Zers, all of them feel just as “real” as a handshake.  The line between our public “in-...

How Networking Professionals Can Avoid Burnout

Business networking is the backbone supporting some of the biggest sectors of the economy. Real estate, health and medical insurance, commercial banking, and more are all heavily reliant on the syn...

Leverage Your Networking to Access the Hidden Job Market

The HR world has a new buzzword, and there's a good chance you haven't heard it yet. Everyone from hiring managers to recruiters to young professionals with their fingers on the pulse are talking a...

Never Be Nervous Again: 6 Professional Networking Tips

If you have social anxiety, here are some expert tips to help you build confidence and network in a better, healthier way.

5 Benefits of Digital Business Cards at Conferences and Trade Shows

In the world of business networking, conferences and trade shows hold special significance – attracting thousands of exhibits, hundreds-of-thousands of attendees, and billions of dollars. Included ...

New Ways to Build Your Business Network

Professional networking is a dynamic practice - constantly evolving alongside broader popular trends. The way entrepreneurs navigate today’s business environment is very different than it was fifty...

Why You Need a Business Network | The Value of Networking

Creating and maintaining a business network is an essential part of entrepreneurial success. No one is an island, they say, and it’s true – especially in modern business. Why? Because it’s virtuall...

Gen Z and the New Rules of Networking

Gen Z is coming-of-age. They’re entering the workforce en masse and bringing with them new approaches, new priorities, and new attitudes towards their careers and what it means to network.  Network...

Best Professional Icebreakers | 10 Great Networking Openers

Looking for effective profesional icebreakers? Popl is here to help. 2023 heralds the great return of in-person networking. Event organizers and professionals alike are eager to re-embrace the uni...

In-Person Networking Tips for 2023

2023 is set to be a big year for in-person networking. With many major conferences and events coming back for the first time since COVID it’s sure to be an interesting and exciting time for sales a...

5 Key Networking Trends for 2023

2023 is set to be one of the biggest in-person networking years ever. For entrepreneurs this is great news. More networking events means more interactions, more connections, more opportunities and,...

How to Act at Networking Events

In-person networking events come in many shapes and sizes. Some, like  SXSW, are city-enveloping events that act like the annual Olympics for business people. Other networking events can be as simp...

Pop Conversation Starters | September 2022 Networking Tips

Great conversation starters are something you can learn. Maybe you’ve told yourself you’re bad at approaching people. Maybe you’re a bit shy. Or maybe you’re simply in a bustling room and need to ...

Real Estate Networking | Online and Offline Tips

Real estate networking can be tough. Some even call real estate “saturated,” or “overly competitive” from a professional perspective. On the other hand, real estate will always be around. The key f...

Creative Networking Tips That Really Work

“Just walk up and say hello.” Sure, that networking tip might work sometimes - but what if you’re dealing with a very in-demand individual? You have to set yourself apart with creative networking ...