Marcy Twete - You Know Everybody!: A Career Girls Guide to Building a Network That Works

Reading You Know Everybody! is like hanging out in your sweats to talk shop with a great cup of coffee and a good friend; a friend who will gently tell it like it is but direct you down just the right path and help you pick out the perfect shoes for the journey. Marcy blends tactical tools and advice for networking with tremendous wit, grace, and insight into the realities of todays working woman. You Know Everybody! Provides advice that every Career Girl should read and practice at all stages of their career!

~Nikki Foster, Chief Corporate Responsibility Officer,

Sunrise Community Banks

Marcy has done a witty job of breaking down the art of networking and providing fresh tools and techniques that even the shyest career climber can put to use. She provides both high level perspective as well as immediate ideas for getting started. The book is perfect for someone looking to up their networking game or for like-minded professionals who will find comic relief in Marcys trials and tribulations involved in todays crazy, multi dimensional social environment. Marcys writing and experiences are charming and fun to read. The real surprise is the depth and content shes collected from other womens experiences, which collectively are a treasure.

~Emily Frager, Senior Vice President & Senior Partner,

Fleishman-Hillard

Charming, witty, and fresh, Marcy Twetes voice appeals to women of all career levels. At once educational and entertaining, You Know Everybody! is a must-read for professional women of any age. Simply a delight!

~Stacey Beck, Independent Educational and Career Consultant

You Know Everybody! is for any woman who has ever uttered the words I need to start networking, but... Knowing what you want, asking for it, and receiving it are completely interconnected. We instinctively understand this, but still dont know where to begin or how to go about meeting the right people and making powerful requests. Twete breaks it down brilliantly and reminds us that its never too early, or too late, to build a strategic network.

~Jules Taggart, Kickstart Kitchen

This is a book whose time has come. Every power networker to aspiring networker should own a copy. There is a connection point for everyone to learn and grow from. Marcy Twete has phenomenally illustrated the path for women and girls to be successful networkers and learn to know everybody!

~Meredith Douglass-Morales, Senior Diversity Recruiter,

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

You Know Everybody! is a compelling and enlightening book that is downright fun to read. You gain countless tangible tips for networking while gaining inspiration and energy from amazing businesswomen. Youll read, learn, laugh - and then get to work!

~Courtney Templin, Author of Manager 3.0:

A Millennials Guide to Rewriting the Rules of Management

Marcy Twete has done the impossible: shes written a book on networking thats not only intriguing and insightful, its incredibly entertaining. Drawing on her own personal experiences, as well as those of her mentors and icons in the business world, Twete manages to teach valuable networking lessons while keeping her reader on the edge of her seat, hungry for the next delightful anecdote. This is not your typical How-To book. Twete offers a fun and unique perspective on the subject of networking. You Know Everybody! is a highly enjoyable read that I recommend to all business professionals.

~Kalei Kekuna, Global Marketing Professional

I wish that I couldve read Marcys book when I started my career. This insightful book offers encouragement and a wealth of advice from her own experience and that of successful business women on how to really excel at networking in todays competitive, online world.

~Barbara K. Mednick, Associate Director Corporate Communications, KPMG LLP

This book is exactly what Ive been looking for to hand off to young women when they ask me about building a professional network. The stories are accessible, the advice is clear, and Marcys passion for the topic is undeniable. Although technology may change the details of how we connect with one another, this book provides valuable instruction for how to build an authentic and powerful network.

~Lauren Melcher, Digital Strategist

Oozing with positive energy and valuable tips, this book is a must-read for natural-born networkers and self-professed wallflowers alike. Marcy lays out the process of building a network into clear and manageable steps. She provides plenty of concrete examples, scripts and resources. And she shows how fun and empowering it can all be both professionally and personally.

~Maureen Glasoe, Owner, Virgo Words

I met Marcy a few months after she had moved to Chicago and assumed that, like most people in a new city, it would take her years to get her bearings. Instead, Ive been so impressed with her ability to figure out how to embed herself in the communitya process that takes most people a lifetime, but took her less than a year. Shes a master networker.

~Susanna Negovan, Editor, Chicago Sun Times SPLASH

Networksso many people know they need one but arent sure how or where to begin OR! a person might have a huge network but has no idea how they might be able to leverage the individuals and the group as a whole to fuel their career dreams and goals. Marcys approach to understanding the layers of a strong, diverse network plus the practical tips offered to help the reader work within a network are inspiring. I now have an entirely new perspective on how to position my network for personal and professional growth.

~Amy Brenengen, Office of Minority & Women Inclusion, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

You Know Everybody! is full of brilliant tips and advice on how to build and grow your network. Marcy teaches women how to improve our asking for what we REALLY want skills in an empowering and effective way. Youll look forward to making powerful requests and no longer hem and haw when asked How can I help you?

~Althea McIntyre, owner, The Best Career For Me

What resonated with me in Marcys book is the notion that it takes practice to hone your asking skills. You have to remind your network what you are doing, you need to find excuses to reach out, and overall, you need to aim for clarity when you are asking for help. This book provides great tools, resources and exercises to keep women moving along a successful career path and ultimately becoming master networkers.

~Jessie Ahlschlager Sandoval, Director of Alumnae Relations, College of Saint Benedict

Marcy is an amazing lady. Shes a rising star who will be very successful because she knows how to make things happen. And of course, She Knows Everybody! I cant wait to order copies of You Know Everybody! for my companys book club to motivate and inspire my staff both personally and professionally.

~Robin Kocina, Owner, Media Relations, Inc.