Distrust Recommendations from Social Networkers and BNI members

If you’re looking for a new supplier, whether it’s an accountant, a designer or anything else then by far the best route is to ask others you know in business who they’d recommend.

This works fine if you’re asking the person privately. But where it falls down is if you ask them on a public forum, Twitter or any other public network.

I’ve been a member (and moderator) of UK Business Forums for 4 years now and I see the same thing happening again and again. In this example I’ve changed names to protect the guilty parties.

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