If you're new to business or working in sales and thinking about networking for the first time, relax. You'll do fine. Listen more than you talk, use good manners and always follow up. Oh, and don't do what some of the people did in these crazy stories about business card blunders.
Shelly was at a networking mixer, which is a business to business meet and greet event. There's no agenda. It's just business people walking around introducing themselves. The point is to have conversations and build relationships that might lead to doing business. Shelly had been talking to another woman, Joanne, for several minutes and it seemed like there might be the opportunity to do business. So Shelly asked for the other woman's business card. Joanne physically drew back and said, "Why would you want that?"
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