affled by your own hieroglyphics when you read your notes a week later? Perhaps this isn’t your best option.

Another way to capture contact information is to use scrap paper. People do this all the time, and it’s not an effective networking technique. Not only does it make you look inefficient and disorganized, but Donna Fisher, author of Networking for Dummies, explains that pie

Imagine you just met your ideal client at a networking event. He’s friendly, has great ideas and could use a valuable person like you to help grow his business. Not to mention, he’s the kind of person from whom you could learn a great deal as well. After all, networking is the creation and maintenance of mutually valuable relationships.

After chatting away, building rapport and connecting for a few minutes – the crucial time comes: the exchange of business cards. At his request, you give him your card. Then you ask for his card in return.

And at that moment, your worst networking nightmare comes true. He utters the one sentence you never want to hear from a new and potentially valuable contact:

“I don’t have one of my business cards with me right now.”

Ouch.

What do you do in this situation?

Some people become frustrated with the person who commits this cardinal sin of networking. Not a good idea. Although business cards are the number-one networking necessity, don’t make a big fuss if someone doesn’t have one. Unfortunately, it happens. People may be changing jobs, reprinting or assumed they didn’t need their cards at the time. But calling them out will only reinforce emotions of their un-professionalism.

A common solution to this problem is suggested in most networking books: simply write your new contact’s information on one of your own cards. Not a bad idea. But space is limited. And how many times have you written information down in your haste only to become completely baffled by your own hieroglyphics when you read your notes a week later? Perhaps this isn’t your best option.

Another way to capture contact information is to use scrap paper. People do this all the time, and it’s not an effective networking technique. Not only does it make you look inefficient and disorganized, but Donna Fisher, author of Networking for Dummies, explains that piec

onnecting for a few minutes – the crucial time comes: the exchange of business cards. At his request, you give him your card. Then you ask for his card in return.

And at that moment, your worst networking nightmare comes true. He utters the one sentence you never want to hear from a new and potentially valuable contact:

“I don’t have one of my business cards with me right now.”

Ouch.

What do you do in this situation?

Some people become frustrated with the person who commits this cardinal sin of networking. Not a good idea. Although business cards are the number-one networking necessity, don’t make a big fuss if someone doesn’t have one. Unfortunately, it happens. People may be changing jobs, reprinting or assumed they didn’t need their cards at the time. But calling them out will only reinforce emotions of their un-professionalism.

A common solution to this problem is suggested in most networking books: simply write your new contact’s information on one of your own cards. Not a bad idea. But space is limited. And how many times have you written information down in your haste only to become completely baffled by your own hieroglyphics when you read your notes a week later? Perhaps this isn’t your best option.

Another way to capture contact information is to use scrap paper. People do this all the time, and it’s not an effective networking technique. Not only does it make you look inefficient and disorganized, but Donna Fisher, author of Networking for Dummies, explains that pie

t now.”

Ouch.

What do you do in this situation?

Some people become frustrated with the person who commits this cardinal sin of networking. Not a good idea. Although business cards are the number-one networking necessity, don’t make a big fuss if someone doesn’t have one. Unfortunately, it happens. People may be changing jobs, reprinting or assumed they didn’t need their cards at the time. But calling them out will only reinforce emotions of their un-professionalism.

A common solution to this problem is suggested in most networking books: simply write your new contact’s information on one of your own cards. Not a bad idea. But space is limited. And how many times have you written information down in your haste only to become completely baffled by your own hieroglyphics when you read your notes a week later? Perhaps this isn’t your best option.

Another way to capture contact information is to use scrap paper. People do this all the time, and it’s not an effective networking technique. Not only does it make you look inefficient and disorganized, but Donna Fisher, author of Networking for Dummies, explains that pie

d their cards at the time. But calling them out will only reinforce emotions of their un-professionalism.

A common solution to this problem is suggested in most networking books: simply write your new contact’s information on one of your own cards. Not a bad idea. But space is limited. And how many times have you written information down in your haste only to become completely baffled by your own hieroglyphics when you read your notes a week later? Perhaps this isn’t your best option.

Another way to capture contact information is to use scrap paper. People do this all the time, and it’s not an effective networking technique. Not only does it make you look inefficient and disorganized, but Donna Fisher, author of Networking for Dummies, explains that pie

affled by your own hieroglyphics when you read your notes a week later? Perhaps this isn’t your best option.

Another way to capture contact information is to use scrap paper. People do this all the time, and it’s not an effective networking technique. Not only does it make you look inefficient and disorganized, but Donna Fisher, author of Networking for Dummies, explains that pieces of paper are more likely to get tossed or lost than business cards. So much for that idea.

Finally, the one attempt at solving this networking nightmare – which usually fails – is when the person says, “Well…just give me your card and I’ll call you.”

Yeah right.

You can’t depend on someone to call you. Not because they don’t like you or because they’re not interested in developing a mutually valuable relationship – but because people lose, forget and misplace things. They also meet lots of people every day – and it’s challenging to differentiate yourself among the masses.

Therefore, the question still remains: How do you effectively and professionally capture the information of a valuable contact that doesn’t have any business cards?

Thus far in the field of networking, there is yet to be a solution.

Until now.

What if there was a way to be one step ahead of every person you met?

What if you could leverage every networking opportunity to transform new people into mutually valuable relationships?

And what if you could eliminate missed opportunities by helping others become capable of being reached?

This is the answer to your worst networking nightmare, and it’s called My Card™. Here’s how it works:

When someone reluctantly tells you they don’t have any business cards with them, reach into your pocket and offer them My Card™.

“You don’t have one of your business cards with you?” you empathize, “Well, don’t worry about it – it happens all the