networking

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

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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 Montréal spell out most of these rules plainly, so here they are in one place.… Read more at Free Business Cards

What to Put on a Business Card (and What to Leave Off)

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Stack of plain white business cards with a pen, notebook and coffee on a wooden desk

A business card has one job. It gets someone from “nice to meet you” to a real follow-up, and it has to do that in about the time it takes to glance at it. Most cards fail because they say too much, or the wrong things. Here is a plain way to decide what goes on the card and what stays off.

Start with the one action you want

Before you pick a font or a paper stock, decide what you want the person to do next. Call you? Visit a website? Book a time? The answer decides which contact … Read more at Free Business Cards

5 Tips To Network With Your Business Cards

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Sending business cards with mailed correspondences is one of the easiest ways to network with them. This may seem like a strange method but how many do you get every time you open your mail? This is because companies know you will see their business cards and it is why you should use every letter, “thank you” note, bill and shipped package as a chance to distribute your own business card.

Here are four other business card networking tips use:

  1. Use business cards for multiple purposes.

Ever ran into a friend you wanted to give your number so you jotted … Read more at Free Business Cards

Online Business Before SEO

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Before SEO invaded the online business world, people had to settle about the way the search engines ordered the sites were ranked after every hit of the search button. This is to put it lightly – a long list of links that the person doing the search will have to patiently pore through in order to find what is it that he is really looking for. There is no problem to this method before as people used to have enough time to go through it. Things have changed however and today’s lifestyle already requires utmost speed without compromising efficiency. … Read more at Free Business Cards