According to a recent poll, 30 percent of U.S. workers have telecommuted. Meanwhile 58 percent of Americans believe remote workers are just as productive as those in an office. How do you make sure the other 42% see the efficiency of remote work?

According to experts it takes just 3 seconds for someone to decide if they like you or want to do business with you. That means you want to get it right, as you never know which connection could be incredibly important to your future.

No one ever said networking is easy, but it is easier than it used to be! Nothing beats face-to-face networking, but social media has made the rest of it much more manageable.

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Businesses tend to spend the majority of their time focusing on products and/or customer service. Meanwhile they ignore some of their most valuable assets - Their employees. 

Perhaps ignore is too strong of a word, but they tend to do the minimum. They do this even though they know it's bad for business. It's time to stop! Here are 4 specific ways you can focus more on your staff.

Networking used to take a lot more work. For each contact you'd have to make a phone call, send them a letter, or run into them at an event. Now you can Snapchat them, connect on LinkedIn, respond to their Tweet...You get the idea. But now that there are so many more connections available to you, you need to figure out how to manage them!