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How NOT to Hand Out Your Cards

Handing out cards is a simple, quick and efficient way of giving people your contact details. Or a simple, quick and efficient way of getting people to never want to speak to you again. Surprised? It all depends on how you go about it. Make sure you're not one of these people:

The card dealer

If we wanted to see how quickly someone could throw cards around, we'd catch a plane to Macau and hit the casinos. Networking isn't a game where whoever has the least cards wins. Just the opposite in fact -- those who go throwing cards left, right and center at people they barely know drive us up the wall. It makes them look arrogant, expecting we'll be so interested in their business that a card is all we need, as opposed to actual conversation.

Network like the Beatles

Alex Cureton-Griffiths

We at Shanghai Networking News have really been getting into our sixties and seventies music of late. Well, not so much all of us, as just myself belting out off-tempo, off-key renditions of "Love me do," resulting in much wailing and gnashing of teeth for anyone else unfortunate enough to be in the same ~~room~~ neighbourhood.

That got me thinking -- what can John, Paul, George and Ringo teach us about networking?

With a Little Help From My Friends

How can you make the most of your network? Help others out and they'll help you in return -- what comes around goes around. There are loads of ways to help: share useful websites and news stories, introduce them to useful contacts and send referrals their way. You'll end up getting much more out of it than you put in.

Make Your Networking Sustainable

Tim Wieringa

By Tim Wieringa

Doing business in Shanghai is very focused on networking. That's also the reason why you're using this web service. So, we all collect a lot of name cards and try to keep in touch with the contacts we collect every day. But how are you doing this? With a name card book? In your e-mail application? And how do you update your colleagues with the activities within your business network?

Networking Links: Small Talk

Alex Cureton-Griffiths

12 tips for making small talk

7 Signs of Shyness (and What to Do About Them)

Alex Cureton-Griffiths

Shyness. It strikes us all at some point and can be great liability in building business connections, making friends, looking for love and a whole host of other things. Previously we dealt with looking more confident, and this time round we're going to do the opposite and look at shyness.

You may be shy or completely outgoing, but here are a few signs that can make you seem like a bit of wallflower, and what to do about them:

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