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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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Make a Connection with Vacation

Office Dynamics

I was so busy with work, traveling, and teaching full-day workshops that I did not really start pulling clothes and packing until the night before my flight was departing. Take business cards. Pack a good book to read or grab your Kindle. Vacations are a wonderful time to catch up on your reading.

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How I Learned to Love Selling (and How You Can Too)

Success

My other business helps aspiring writers improve their craft and get published. And seeing their names in print after they take one of our workshops? I can’t tell you how much of my time used to be spent on customers who purchased a $5 or $10 service and immediately became a squeaky wheel.

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

Men With Pens

And I definitely don’t want to purchase something from a company I can’t trust to ask me nicely to pay attention to what they’re doing. My email lists are not for sale, and I don’t purchase email list. Even in a networking setting when someone gives me their business card, I ask whether it’s OK to put them on my list.

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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. I like to take it live! Not everyone is a blog reader. Monetizing Your Content.

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Free Blog Posts | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

You have a site that, three times a week, as regular as clockwork, gives readers a 700-word value-packed blog post full of insight and knowledge that’s fully tailored to benefit and improve people’s ability to earn more income and have a successful business. Not businesses who sell services. Did I mention it’s free?

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