Harvey Mackay
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Business Networking Expert
Harvey Mackay Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Business Networking, Long-Term Relationships with Customers and Competitors, Job Interviews, Public Speaking, Negotiation, Publishing, Leadership
- Best Sellers
- Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive, Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt, The Harvey Mackay Rolodex Network Builder
- Career Focus
- Author, Business owner, Speaker
- Affiliation
- MackayMitchell Envelope Company
Harvey Mackay has redesigned the concept of business networking. Author of the New York Times #1 bestsellers Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive and Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt, he is no stranger to the challenges encompassing the business world. His books are among the top 15 inspirational business books of all time, according to the New York Times. Mackay’s books have sold 10 million copies in 80 countries and have been translated into 37 languages.
Walk with Mackay as he discusses the secrets to constructing and upholding a network that will yield exciting new experiences, increased job security, and an expanded financial reach. Harvey Mackay believes most people make the crucial mistake of only turning to their network when the need it.
Harvey Mackay’s website, www.harveymackay.com, along with his book, The Harvey Mackay Rolodex Network Builder, reveal secrets for network building as a lifelong practice and emphasize taking business relations to a personal level.
Mackay is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business Executive Program. Mackay is a nationally syndicated columnist for United Feature Syndicate, whose weekly articles appear in 52 newspapers around the country including: the Chicago Sun Times, Rocky Mountain News, Orange County Register, Minneapolis Star Tribune and Arizona Republic. Harvey Mackay is also one of America's most popular business speakers and was named by Toastmasters International as one of the top five speakers in the world.
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Mackay has 5 New York Times #1 Best Sellers that improve networking
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The Best of Harvey's Columns: Motivational Articles and Stories
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Quote Archive
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Harvey Mackay Audio & Video Programs
Harvey Mackay Books
The Harvey Mackay Rolodex Network Builder
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Mackay's Networking Bundle
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Swim With the Sharks Without being Eaten Alive
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Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt
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Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty
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Mackay Mem-Cards: Building a Professional Network
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Negotiating In A Nutshell
I got a phone call from a Fortune 500 CEO last week whom I had never met. After decades of begging the government to relax their regulatory grip and let his industry experience the joys of competition, his wish had been granted -- and his bottom line had plummeted. He wanted me to talk to his ...
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Harvey’s Top 10 List Of The Biggest Networking Mistakes
Take it from an old grizzly who’s been there and done that. We like to think that with age comes vast experience. Guess where that vast experience came from? That’s right. Until someone invents a Teflon-coated suit, the most penetrating insights come from hindsight. n Is there a bright ...
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Harvey’s Top 10 List Of The Best Ways To Stay In Touch With Your Network
1. Use the calendar creatively. Sure, send birthday and anniversary cards, but recognize your network’s other special days. Never underestimate the power of a simple thank-you note, remembering a date or a place that’s important to a member of your network, or a note of congratulations. Yes, ...
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Volunteerism: You Often Receive More Than You Give
You don't have to pledge Skull and Bones or be a country club deb to meet the right people. There are a ton of jobs that offer that opportunity but go begging every year for want of volunteers willing to take them. Take ushering at your church or synagogue. Maybe it sounds like it's just one ...
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What They Don't Teach You In School
As many college graduates are scrambling to find jobs, one of the most important things for graduates to understand is that you're in school all your life. In fact, your real education is just beginning. I'd like to pass on a few lessons, which weren't necessarily covered in school. If you've ...
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Harvey Mackay
Networking Quotes
- Put the most important people you know on that list of people to whom you drop notes. Yes, it's lonely at the top, and the bigger they are, the more strokes they need.
- Put your memory where your mouth is. If you want to impress people with how much you care, show them how much you remember.
- Remembering doesn't work. He who counts on his memory has a fool for a filling system.
- As the world changes, one thing will remain constant: the relationships you develop over a lifetime.
- In my entire career I have never once heard a successful person say he regretted putting time and energy into keeping his Rolodex file.
- You don't have to know everything, as long as you know people who know the things you don't.
- Ninety percent of the people that I share my philosophies with about organizing and using the Rolodex file will never put them into practice. They lack the necessary ingredient: discipline.
- One of the greatest mistakes you can make in your career is being afraid to ask for help.
- If I had to name the single characteristic shared by all truly successful people I've met in my life, I'd say it's the ability to create and nurture a network of contacts.
- The key to successful networking is knowing you can get your hands on the information you need about people when you need it. In other words, you have to give a piece of your mind to get peace of mind.
- If you think it takes to much effort to keep up a Rolodex, it's a lot less effort than it would take to replace the information later on.
- Remember, we all start out in life with one thing in common: We all have the same amount of time. It's just a matter of what we do with it.
- Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. If something is worth remembering, write it down.
- Although I have trouble envisioning exactly what my business will be like ten years from now, I know that whatever I'm doing will be based on the contacts I've already made and those I'm making today.
Contacting Harvey Mackay
Harvey Mackay
MackayMitchell Envelope Company
2100 Elm Street S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55414
1-800-905-8939