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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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Good Ol’ Fashioned Marketing is Still Good For Business!

Step It Up VA Coaching

Offer to do a free class or workshop at your local library, women’s business network, or community center, and send press releases to local papers, radio, television, and local business newsletters, such as those sent out by the chamber of commerce. Get to know the managers or owners of these businesses.

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Planner Or Tickler (1-31) File? - How to Use Both For Optimal.

Stephanie LH Calahan

How to Use Both For Optimal Professional & Personal Productivity (guest post by Meggin McIntosh) A question that often comes up in workshops as well as on my blog is this one: How do you suggest people use their calendar (planner) in conjunction with the tickler (1-31) files? Part of the Calahan Solutions, Inc.

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5 Steps to Setting Up Your Online Systems Quickly and Easily

Office Organization Success

As I was teaching at a recent workshop the same question kept cropping up again and again, and it went something like this: “I’m just starting out in my business. And you can add the URL and details of your free taste to your business cards for when you hand them out at networking events. c) 2011 Tracey Lawton.

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Do you ask for permission or forgiveness? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Just this: If you are trying to give yourself a shortcut by not asking for your clients’ permission before you sign them up for your sales list, newsletter, or any other form of unsolicited information, you’re shooting yourself in the foot. Just makes me wonder why they run their businesses this way. It’s easier, yes.

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Master the Art of Re-purposing Your Work and You'll Save Multiple Hours - 50 Ideas To Get You Started

Stephanie LH Calahan

I take my best content and turn it into workshops and allow people to play with and I hope learn from the ideas. I also can use the recording to make a cd and give to potential clients or current clients instead of a business card or brochure. Some of those become blog posts, newsletter articles, parts of books.