Video – Business cards, top 5 tips for a bad first impression
By JamesMcBrearty, 16th August 2012

With the number of networking events I have attended over the years I have come into contact with many thousands of business cards.

There are several points that do seem to come up regularly, so in this video I talk about my top 5 tips for a poor first impression.

Yes, there may be special occasions where you can’t eliminate all 5 – such as a recent networking meeting I attended myself where I had one days notice so there was no way to have my new consultancy service cards professionally printed in time.

In such cases the more of these points you can eliminate, then the better your result will be:

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