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They serve as a marketing tool for your skills, abilities and services which you have to offer. People make several judgments about you after looking at your business card. That is why business cards are very critical in business networking. They are even more important than resume as resume cannot be carried along everywhere. So business cards can help you a lot in establishing the foundation for your business networking. Always give your business cards to everyone and ask them for referrals. Offer your services and ask them if they have acquaintance with anyone who may use my services. This will make them feel very comfortable. These kinds of sentences are much better than saying "is your company recruiting". In fact indirect sentences have more buffering effect. People generally like if they would do some favor. So you should ask them to do a favor by passing on your services to someone. Never misjudge or undervalue the power of networking. Maximize the chances of every "by chance" encounter. You can have no idea of when you may meet someone who may be a major client or customer for you in future. Social events and parties can be a great source of these unexpected encounters and meetings. Even little gathering may have a great potential for your future prospects. You can give business cards to many people and may have lots of good results. If you are going to a birthday party there is also a probability to meet someone who may be very important for your business in future. Events and gatherings are a big opportunity for you to market yourself in front of others. But don't let these events go in waste. Don't just collect and give business cards to the people. Do something more to make yourself visible in front of others. You should be prominent enough to make others think that you have some extraordinary abilities and willingness to do something extra. For example, on events like job fairs or business conference you must volunteer to help to these kinds of events. It makes you visible and makes the company representatives think that you are willing to do beyond limits in helping them. It will make a better strategic place for you to present your resume or business card. A famous quote says that what you give the world always comes back to you. So if you help people enough to get something in life it will come back to you to help you what you want from life. After interviews, meetings or some events it might happen that people don't call you. It's very difficult to remember every person. So make people remember you by following the rule of "out of sight, out of mind". Do something quite different to make you stand out from the people in competition with you. And also never get disappointed. Be persistent and patient in waiting for the results. Are you ready to get more out of your own networking efforts? Do you have trouble selling because you're shy or just not the aggressive type? Maybe you're just sick of the hard-sell approach that isn't getting results anyway. Check out http://www.businessnetworkingevents.org.uk! ------------------ ARTICLE END ------------------ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
