The Ripple Effect: Maximizing the Power of Relationships for Life & Business (Second Edition)

Make the most of your relationships!

In this revised and expanded second edition of The Ripple Effect: Maximizing the Power of Relationships for Your Life and Business, author Steve Harper offers even more tips for unlocking the amazing potential of your personal and professional networks.

Provocative and practical, The Ripple Effect is filled with valuable strategies for both veteran and rookie connectors. New chapters spotlight emerging social media technologies and create an emergency networking plan when the economy takes a nose dive.

Learn to get what you really want by first giving of your time, your talent and your expertise. As you'll discover, the ROI of selflessness is truly astounding. The Ripple Effect will teach you how to:

• Create deeper, more meaningful relationships
• Use new social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to extend your connecting efforts online
• Avoid common networking mistakes, both online and in person
• Leverage your network to open new doors and create new opportunities
• Establish connection lifelines that will bail you out when things get really tough

Painting a tantalizing picture of what business -- and life -- can be once you decide to put other people first, The Ripple Effect is an indispensable resource not only for executives, sales managers, customer service representatives and entrepreneurs, but for anyone who wants to leave this world a better place than they found it.

Steve Harper (aka "Mr. Ripple") has become one of the most sought after speakers and business strategists on the power of deepening and strengthening the power of connections through a process he calls Rippling. Steve's unique and refreshing approach to how and why individuals, organizations and even society itself can and must reach outside the box to connect, is literally changing lives and impacting corporate bottom line dollars.

A serial entrepreneur, professional speaker, author and leading business strategist, Steve has successfully uncovered the secret to creating powerful long-lasting connections and their impact on one's personal and professional life. Steve has transitioned his years of business experience and unyielding customer focus into a successful consulting practice.

Steve has always maintained a unique focus on developing strong, long-lasting relationships with his clients, prospects and employees. By building a strong network of referrals and repeat customers, Steve has honed his ability to foster client relationships into a leveraged system for achieving solid business success. That system is represented in his book The Ripple Effect and through his speaking engagements, customized training, ongoing coaching and impressive line-up of customizable training programs that he and his team offer today.

Steve enjoys helping companies and business leaders recognize the importance of building strong relationships with their clients, prospects and employees. He speaks professionally to a variety of groups, both corporate and civic, about creating a Ripple-centric strategy and the power it can bring to one's personal and professional life.

Steve lives in Austin, TX with his wife Kathy and their two boys Zachary and Joshua. He maintains that his children are his greatest teachers and his wife his biggest inspiration.