Interchanging business cards should be a simple deal, or it can turn to a clumsy situation.
If you want to be prepared when someone asks you for a business card, read these guidelines to plan ahead.

Always be ready
Even on the weekends you should have plenty of your business cards just in case you meet some prospects or other business partners. You would discover that a lot of influential contacts and business cards interchanging could take place in the most unexpected locations.

Remember you may not give out torn and shabby cards
Check, if they are spotless and stiff with no pencil marks and worn edges. If you want your cards always to be carefully kept you can carry a business card case. To express your style and individuality you should choose your own design which could vary from official to techie to artistic.

To hand out a business card should be your purpose
To bring clients and business holders together would not take a big meeting. Unofficial conventions are the most favorable situations to develop your network and interchange business cards. You should offer the person you are communicating with your business card if that person displays an apparent interest in goods and services you introduce.

Do accept someone’s card correctly
Take a clear look at a business card for a moment, when you receive it. You can make a compliment about the creative design and logo while you have a dialogue with that person.

Don’t give out more than one card to a new person
You should hand only one business card to a new associate. When you leave two or three, it could be sign that you would like them to get professional contacts for you what is vulgar and incompetent thing. You’d better to concentrate on person-to-person connection, unless a previous deal is made to interchange more than one card.

Do interchange business cards equally
You may ask a person for a business card if you see him for the first time. But you’d better wait for him to propose his card to you first, if you are of a lower position than that person. Don’t hesitate you will be handed a card, if the person actually wants to give you one!

Don’t put it in your pocket, wallet, or purse
The best place for the card you accept is your notebook, planner or business card case. You should not put the card in a purse that must be placed in a back pocket. In such a way you might display disregard and complete absence of management on your part.

Don’t lose any chance for free advertising
There is sometimes a notice board near the front counter for business cards to be displayed, at the local cafes. The collection cups for pictures or mixers are also a great place for leaving your business cards in. If you are proposed free advertising, don’t lose the opportunity to get a benefit.