SummitUp Podcast Preview — Lewis Howes

Lewis Howes, a pre­vi­ous two sport col­le­giate All-American, is also the NCAA All-Division Record Holder for the most receiv­ing yards in a sin­gle foot­ball game (418 yards, cur­rently an unof­fi­cial World Record). Lewis grad­u­ated with a Sports Man­age­ment degree from Prin­cipia Col­lege, and since his retire­ment from pro­fes­sional foot­ball, he con­tin­ues to stay involved in the sports indus­try with his work through found­ing the Sports Exec­u­tives Asso­ci­a­tion and SportsNetworker.com. SportsNetworker.com is a site that con­nects sports pro­fes­sion­als in the indus­try. He also rep­re­sents sports com­pa­nies and pro­fes­sional ath­letes with social media mar­ket­ing and brand­ing. Lewis, unlike many for­mer ath­letes has suc­cess­fully trans­lated the men­tal and phys­i­cal tools learned in sports to the busi­ness world.

He is the co-author of the LinkedIn suc­cess book, Linked­Work­ing: Gen­er­at­ing Suc­cess on the World’s Largest Pro­fes­sional Net­work­ing Web­site. In addi­tion to this book, Lewis helps pro­fes­sion­als and com­pa­nies achieve greater return on the time they devote to LinkedIn and other social net­work­ing through his acclaimed train­ing sem­i­nars, one-on-one coach­ing ses­sions, and cor­po­rate con­sult­ing pro­grams. He also cre­ates oppor­tu­ni­ties for online con­nec­tions to gather face-to-face through his live “Linked­Work­ing” events around the country.

Lewis is also one of the keynote pre­sen­ters at Sum­mitUp, a social media con­fab on Octo­ber 20^th, 2009 at Wright State Uni­ver­sity in Day­ton, Ohio.  In this pod­cast Lewis offers a pre­view of his pre­sen­ta­tion and deliv­ers some great tips for using tech­nol­ogy to make net­work­ing work.  Check it out and then head to http://summitup.org to reg­is­ter for the event.

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