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How To Make Traditional Business Cards Work For You In The Digital Age.

Tips From T. Marie

Purchasing traditional business cards used to be one of the first official things you did when you started your own business. Today, with everything from file storage to forms being offered electronically, many business startups are abandoning the traditional business card altogether.

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Business Travel Is Back: How to Maximize Your Miles

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Either way, you’ll want to have a dedicated card for business expenses to make it easier to separate them from your personal spending for accounting and tax purposes. One of the first questions to answer is whether it makes more sense for you to use a personal or business card to pay for travel and other expenses.

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How to Find and Win More Clients as a Home Business Owner

Tips From T. Marie

However, if you love being social or can get over your aversion to it, networking events can provide valuable opportunities for home business owners to meet potential clients. Be sure to bring business cards and have a brief, clear elevator explanation you can give of your services.

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Productive Networking: 22 Ideas to Organize Business Cards for Effective Followup

Stephanie LH Calahan

" That is what a recent client told me when I opened a drawer in her office and found it filled with business cards. The cards had been collected over a year or so of miscellaneous networking events and trade shows.    Over time, she had forgotten who many of the people were or even why she had kept the card. . 

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I Want Some Business Cards

Catch Friday

I met Ian Hendry the brains and owner behind the networking platform WE CAN DO BIZ at a Business Scene Event in Datchet near Heathrow Airport. I do business with people who will collaborate with me, that is I either add to their services or take a percentage from them for referring them to a good business deal. 1 718 785 4195.

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How to Use Evernote: 22 Ways

Ian's Messy Desk

Create a shared notebook, give access to the relevant people and they can decide when and how to view. Store Business Cards - Instead of collecting a pile of business cards that you’ll lose, photograph or scan them send the images to Evernote.

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Tackling Business Strategy: 6 Tenets of Building a Scalable Brand

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Work with a professional graphic designer at the planning stage of your business and consider all the possibilities for future growth. That logo may look fine close-up on a business card. And although a color palette may pop on a printed page, how will it look on a future car wrap or video?