Business Card Etiquette: When to Hand Out Your Card (and When Not To)

Two professionals exchanging business cards at a networking event

A box of five hundred business cards costs about twenty dollars, and a depressing share of those cards ends up in a hotel trash can within a day of being handed out. The difference between a card that gets kept and one that gets binned usually has nothing to do with the design. It comes down to the conversation around the exchange, plus a handful of habits that experienced networkers treat as basic manners. The Better Business Bureau’s networking guide and career advisors at HEC MontrĂ©al spell out most of these rules plainly, so here they are in one place.… Read more at Free Business Cards