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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.  Business Cards. A pile of business cards is simply clutter.

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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? We meet new people all the time and have lots of detailed business conversations. I have found that the Contact Keeper is a much more organized and streamlined way keep cards and conversation notes.

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Strategies for Expanding Your Professional Network

Eat Your Career

While I don’t believe this entirely (to me, it’s both what you know and who you know), I definitely agree that having a strong professional network is a critically important part of creating career success. Unfortunately, a lot of people don’t think about expanding their network until they need something—like a job.

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Top 5 Tips for Small Biz Networking Events

The Small Business Blog

Make sure that you take professional business cards with you to the networking event. Cheap and nasty cards reflect badly on your business. Remember that direct selling is not the purpose of a networking event. Following-up is a crucial part of the networking process.

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52 Templates and Tools for Every Successful EA

Worxbee

Process management tools. Executive assistants are masters of process management and that requires some quality tools to keep track! Your processes, standard operating procedures and policies should be clearly documented and accessible to those who need to use them. Process documentation tools. Network management tools.

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Beating Networking Nerves

Small Business CEO

Effective networking is an essential to furthering your career as well as being vital to the success of your business. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to overcome barriers to networking, so you can relax and reap the rewards of meeting new people in your industry. Put yourself out there. Fake it till you make it.

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3 Smart Money Moves to Make Before Starting a Business

Success

Knowing what resources you have on hand before you get in too deep can provide peace of mind that you’ll either have the funds you need to support your startup phase or that you need to save more before you order those new business cards and call yourself CEO. Running a business and its financials can be very daunting.

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