Member Event: StartUp Junkie: Leveraging Your Network to Grow Your Business

Hundreds of connections on LinkedIn? Thousands of Facebook friends? As business owners we’ve been taught to cast a wider net and build a bigger network.  After all, bigger is better, right?  This session at StartUp Junkie will challenge that notion.  In fact, humans are only capable of managing a small number of relationships.  We’ll talk about cognitive limits and how you can improve the quality and power of your network without increasing its size. You’ll leave with a plan for strengthening your network and leveraging it to grow your business.

Entrepreneur and connector Philip Pelto is passionate about teaching and specifically about seeing his clients grow and succeed. As a salesperson he learned that building relationships and working from referrals was the path to success and with his networking organization MyFirestorm he’s able to spread his ideas far and wide.

To quote Harvey Mackay, a great networker in his own right, "If I had to name the single characteristic shared by all truly successful individuals, I'd say it is the ability to create and nurture a network of contacts."

Philip is originally from Taylors Falls, Minnesota. He graduated from Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Finance. In his free time he enjoys running marathons, biking, and climbing.