{"id":292,"date":"2008-04-04T18:58:42","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T08:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/04\/giving-out-cards-does-not-work\/"},"modified":"2008-04-19T19:51:18","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T09:51:18","slug":"giving-out-cards-does-not-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/04\/giving-out-cards-does-not-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Just giving out cards does not work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have just been <a href=\"http:\/\/smallbusinessdiva.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/31\/9-tips-to-gain-the-most-from-networking\/\" target=\"_blank\">reading part of the Small Business Diva blog where she wrote about networking<\/a>, and her 6th point reminded me of a networking breakfast I attended a month or so ago.<\/p>\n<p>Donna-Marie wrote &#8221; When at networking events, don\u2019t try to talk to everyone there and shove as many business cards as possible into everyone\u2019s hands nor push your products\/services on people. &#8221; And I couldn&#8217;t agree more. Networking is about building relationships, not getting your name in front of the maximum number of people.<\/p>\n<p>At the breakfast I attended, I happened to sit next to a man who didn&#8217;t tell me his name or show much interest in talking to me (his choice, and it doesn&#8217;t bother me!) However, as he stood up to leave he handed a business card to everyone within reach, said good-bye and left. He still didn&#8217;t say his name or use mine (I had introduced myself).<\/p>\n<p>The end result? I left his card on the table and he gained nothing from handing it to me.<\/p>\n<p>Compare that to others I have met at networking events where we have swapped cards and later exchanged emails and possibly helped each other in some way, even if we never used each others&#8217; services.<\/p>\n<p>So don&#8217;t go to networking events with the aim to hand out heaps of cards; reserve your cards for the people you click with or who specifically ask for a card or information about your services.<\/p>\n<p>Walking out of a networking event with two or three, or even one, good contact is a great feeling &#8211; and a successful event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just been reading part of the Small Business Diva blog where she wrote about networking, and her 6th point reminded me of a networking breakfast I attended a month or so ago. Donna-Marie wrote &#8221; When at networking events, don\u2019t try to talk to everyone there and shove as many business cards as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[94,86,95,96,97,98],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-info-tools","tag-building","tag-business","tag-cards","tag-events","tag-networking","tag-relationships"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}