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I have been working on organizing my business life this last week in an attempt to save time anywhere possible.

One of the ways is that I have begun requesting V Cards, from new clients, networking partners, and anyone who emails me. I spend too much time entering signature details manually into outlook contacts, and as a small business owner I bet you do as well, Of course that’s when we actually do it and don’t simply flag the email to follow up on. (How many of those flagged emails are in your inbox?).

So today I encourage you to go into outlook right NOW. Really it will take 2.5 minutes.

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I belong to a few women in business groups. Some are formal networking groups, and some are online “forums”. The one thing that often astounds me is that people do not take the opportunity to establish business contacts out of these online business networks, groups, and forums.

I am not suggesting you spam your groups with your business. I am talking about REAL business networking opportunities and missing them when you don’t use those opportunities to introduce yourself.

About 10 years ago I attended a series of classes for entrepreneurs starting a new business. A three month program covering everything from business plans to finding investors. Even accounting. I think I went blank during the bookkeeping and accounting, but one thing that REALLY sticks out to me is the entire day we spent on introducing your business when given the opportunity.

With a recent roll call in one of my online Women in Business forums, (OK I started it - I was talking to all these women and I had NO idea what their business were), I was a bit shocked that these women weren’t taking the opportunity to really make an impression, one that I would remember next time I needed a service so I could find them again or remember their business name when someone I know was asking about their type of product.

Let me state, signatures do NOT work as a means of introducing yourself and your business.

I rarely click on a signatures, but if I feel I personally know you AND I have a real understanding of what you offer I will Google for you in the future. Just this week I found a copy writer and hired her, she couldn’t recall how she knew me. Thats OK, because I remembered her telling me what she did and the name “Crayon” ( i recall it being part of her blog domain) two minutes on Google and there she was.

I went online to see if I could find some articles on how to introduce yourself in business networking situations, specifically online. There are many business forums that came up in my search asking you to introduce yourself, however nary an article on HOW TO introduce yourself in these online business networking situations.

So here is what I want and need from you in an online business networking introduction.

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Entre Card is creating some talk among bloggers lately and I was recently asked if I felt Entre card is worth the time as a tool for promoting your blog.

Let me say that before you start using Entre Card make sure you have a specific blog audience and some quality content on your website. Entre Card may get some new blog readers to your blog, but without some quality content they won’t become the loyal readers you want. Also be aware of the geographical location of fellow Entre Card users. I have a primarily English Speaking Blog and a sudden influx of foreign Entre Card droppers won’t help the overall goals of my blog.

I haven’t placed Entre Card here at Her Media yet, and probably wont for some time. I do use Entre Card at my other Blog Organized Families. It has brought some new readers but what I find most beneficial about Entre Card is the opportunity to network with other bloggers.

If you already take time to read blogs, Entre Card is a great networking tool and will increase your visitors. ( However, you have to take the time to use Entre Card. I really don’t have a lot of time, so I tend to only return the drops of users who really have a blog that looks of interest to me. Which leads me to this:

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