When Is The Right Time To Give Out Your Name Card Part Two

The Dos  

1. The purpose of connecting with people and networking is to identify potential clients, employees, and referral sources.

This doesn't mean your only focus would be on your target market, and you can always branch out because you never know when you can be convincing enough to attract someone outside your target audience to become one.

Getting your information to reach a vast majority is the aim, but be sure of who you exchange information with. You want quality and not quantity. 

2. Be interested in whoever you are talking to. Get them to talk about themselves too. Get a connection and try to get their contact.

They might not reach you, but with their contact address in your possession, you get to call them. Get their contact and hand out your card like a second option.

So they could also reach you. You can include a little note behind your card to refresh the recipient's memory whenever he or she is going through the card.

Collecting contacts is important because if you give ten people your contact, 4-5 of them might reach out to you, but if you get ten people's contacts, you can reach out to them all.

The references you should accept are those you intend to follow up with, the people in your target audience. 

3. Hand out your cards to those who ask for them. Do not just give out your cards. If they're interested in your business, they want to have your contact for future purposes.

Also, hand out your name cards as a means of keeping in touch with a likely client. Ask politely and confidently if they would like to have your card before you hand it out.

Those contacts of probable customers should be a means to consistent follow-ups and more networking. 

Handing out informative namecard helps to generate more revenue and informs people about your business but would have the opposite effect when done wrongly.