82. Get the Most Out of Business and Professional Associations

Association membership can be extremely beneficial to telecommuters. Your memberships in business, professional, trade, industry, and civic groups can help you feel less isolated and more connected to people on both a business and a personal level. Associations also are good resources for information about trends, regulations, and dynamics affecting your business. Further, your involvement in business and professional groups can be a real boon to your networking efforts.

Like everything else, though, you get advantages out of your association memberships in fairly direct proportion to the effort you put into them. Joining associations for the sole purpose of accessing the mailing ...

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