by Harold Almon baesoe.com
Be prepared to give a business card should one be requested or provided. At a minimum, have a business or organizational visiting card. It can list your logo at the top left. It may list a club or professional association allegiance logo at the top right. It is to list your first and last name, without your title, center, or just above center, the card. It can list your telephone number in the bottom right-hand corner.
When an address is added to a business visiting card, it is to be in the same font, in a smaller point size, and the business logo is to be omitted, or you now have a nice business work card. A lone address can be listed in the lower right hand corner or above a telephone number. A combination of addresses may be listed in precedence. A telephone number could be listed alone. Where appropriate, your home telephone number or an address could be added at the time you give your card to someone.
A business card holder is to be obtained. It can be a license case, a wallet, or a case designed specifically to hold cards. A holder that looks like a shrine is to be avoided. Learn to open each holder with only one hand and to close it silently. Each holder is to be carried in a breast wallet, jacket pocket, or a front pants pocket. It can be carried in a planner. Avoid carrying a card holder or cards in your back pocket. Carry both visiting and work cards. Cards are to be exchanged in kind, (or you can give someone the kind you want to be given next time.)
Use your cards. A business card can be used to demonstrate preparedness, deference, and consideration. A business card can take the place of a visiting card. The lone exception when paying calls, a visiting card can be left in a home, a business work card may not correctly be.
Business cards may be:
1. Exchanged with another person as a private gesture, before or after a meal.
2. Cards can be offered at the beginning of a meeting, or after a person is seated.
3. (In an Asian culture), a card may be offered with both hands, with it facing towards the person who is to receive it. It is to be received with both hands. However given, the gesture is to be reciprocated in kind. Each card received is to be read slowly as if being approved.
Note that in a given culture a family name may not come last. Check the forms of address: you can ask.
4. Business cards can be kept out during the entire time of a conversation. Each card can be held onto, or placed on top of a desk or table, as a sort of seating chart, as a meeting takes place.
5. A card may be read, and then carefully put away in any upper body pocket, following the lead of the senior person. It could be placed in any front pocket.
6. Avoid putting a business card away in any back pocket. The thought of you sitting on someone else's business (image) can never be a pleasant one.
7. A business card is to be omitted and replaced with a plain card, visiting card, or a correspondence card when a contact is also a friend or is otherwise socially connected.
(Continued in Using Personal and Business Cards …)
17. A business card could be used to provide someone with your personal telephone number, which might be added at the time that you decide to give it to someone.
18. A business card can be used as a memory jogger to let someone favorably remember when, where, and who was in your company when contact was made with you.
19. Cards are to be marked. The back of each is to be annotated as to the date, time, and location of the meeting where it was received. It could contain, topics discussed, suggestions given and received, and any promises made.
20. Cards are to be maintained, and can be filed by business occupational field and then alphabetically by name (in telephone book order.) Cards can be filed by site location of the first meeting. This file is to be reviewed and purged yearly. Others are to be informed when an updated card has been published, and or when an older version of a card should be destroyed.
21. Once acquired, carry business, and visiting, work cards. Provide one in kind at the time that one is given to you. When exchanging cards in person, let the senior person take the lead in offering a card.
22. Use your cards. Something is to be said for a handshake
that you can leave behind.
You can decide to be prepared with more than having cards.
You can marry traditions with technology.
You may have a smart telephone equipped with Bump: a wireless application that may be used to exchange contact information. Someone can want to Bump with you.
If someone does not have bump, you may still want email them your bump contact card.
This card is to have logo; avoid it having a picture of you. Practice using the application before your event.
You could exchange contact information with a cellular telephone. Call the person Have the person establish you as a contact. Then establish that person as a contact.
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