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10 Business Card Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Office Dynamics

What business card mistakes are you making? Like it or not, business cards are still widely used among entrepreneurs and their prospective clients. But if you’ve recently handed out several business cards and never heard back, it may be a sign that you’ve gone wrong somewhere along the way.

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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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How to Organize Business Cards & Networking Conversations - Interview & Giveaway @ContactKeeper

Stephanie LH Calahan

When you attend tradeshows or networking meetings, do you later experience the business card pile up? Do you need an easy way to delegate the input of contact and conversation information into a customer relationship management (CRM) tool? We meet new people all the time and have lots of detailed business conversations.

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Business Travel Is Back: How to Maximize Your Miles

Success

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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Using Email Effectively

Ian's Messy Desk

Home About Contact Me Links Sitemap Using Email Effectively Posted by Ian McKenzie Written on June 18, 2010 If youre new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. For most organizations, e-mail has become the preferred means of communication, both formal and informal. It’s like attaching a business card to every e-mail you send.

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Re-Visited: The Intro Packet

Tips From T. Marie

Pricing or Rates information. Business Policies (if applicable). What you include in your intro packet will depend upon your business and what information you may want to share or receive back. See the original post for more information about what type of information is included in each of those components.

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The Admin’s Guide to Career Organization

All Things Admin

I receive a lot of emails from admins who’ve lost their jobs unexpectedly. Personal Business Cards. A lot of companies provide employees with their own business cards. Personal business cards are a vital networking tool as they’re a physical reminder of who you are, what you do, and how to get in touch with you.