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Do you remember back in the mists of time, pre-March 23rd to be precise? In those wonderful days we met people face to face, we could see all of each other\u2019s faces, the nightmare of coordinating masks and outfits weren\u2019t on the radar and women wore\u00a0 lipstick when they went out of the house (Wait: OK the last two might just be me, I tried wearing lipstick under my mask and ended up looking like the Joker) Anyway, back to the story, in those halcyon days you met someone, chatted, thought there might be some points of contact and you exchanged cards. (Yes there were some hip-and-happening youngsters\u2014or as I call them\u2014geeks, who had apps on their phones but I\u2019m still old school\u2026and I paid a lot of money for all the business cards I have.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On 23rd<\/sup> March, the world of business changed in many way. (Read https:\/\/vwd-hosting.co.uk\/ebn\/?p=145<\/a> to see how it affected me personally) but here I want to focus on business cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Before March 23rd<\/sup>, and given GDPR, I would get their card connect on Linkedin, send them an email, and ask if I could add them to my list from which they could, of course unsubscribe. (Interestingly, I never had anyone say that I couldn\u2019t). We would then work at building a relationship, perhaps by arranging a 1-2-1. But that whole process started with a business card exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other thing with business cards was I ALWAYS had them with me when I went out of the house. Why? Because if you are not talking to yourself you are networking. Want proof that this approach works? When I had a catering company, I was once at the checkout of my local supermarket (I\u2019d like to say Waitrose, but it was Tesco) and got talking to the next woman in the queue. She said she was very angry because her caterer had just rung her and cancelled her booking, something about a surprise holiday! I pulled out my business card, we met, and I got a very profitable job. I always took my business cards with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After 23rd<\/sup> March I can still connect with people on Linkedin but I don\u2019t have the business card process nailed down, and since I rarely go out, I don\u2019t even know where my business cards are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As I try to evolve my working practices, I spent some time giving this some thought, and what did I find? The solutions to these business cards issues is simple: 1 I will be asking permission to add my new Linkedin connections to my list and I am digging out my business cards and putting them next to my vast array of various coloured masks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How can you help? Make sure your contact details are correct and complete on your Linkedin profile. Please.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What are some of the small changes you are making?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Want some networking tips? Go to: https:\/\/www.ebn.uk.com\/<\/a> and download my top 20 networking tips. You\u2019re welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Have fun<\/p>\n\n\n\n Glenys<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do you remember back in the mists of time, pre-March 23rd to be precise? In those wonderful days we met people face to face, we could see all of each other\u2019s faces, the nightmare of coordinating masks and outfits weren\u2019t on the radar and women wore\u00a0 lipstick when they went out of the house (Wait:… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwd-hosting.co.uk\/ebn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwd-hosting.co.uk\/ebn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwd-hosting.co.uk\/ebn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwd-hosting.co.uk\/ebn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwd-hosting.co.uk\/ebn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/vwd-hosting.co.uk\/ebn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/vwd-hosting.co.uk\/ebn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwd-hosting.co.uk\/ebn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwd-hosting.co.uk\/ebn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwd-hosting.co.uk\/ebn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwd-hosting.co.uk\/ebn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}