<p><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://www.getmotivation.com/images/speakers_images/jim-donovan-11.jpg" width="95" height="143" alt="Jim Donovan" class="alignleft size-medium" />At a Chamber of Commerce Business Card Exchange several years ago a well-dress woman walked up to me, business card in hand and, in perfect form held it in both hands in front of me, gesturing for me to take it.</p>
<p>I took the card from her and smiled. She looked up and in a polite voice, said &#8220;Thank you,&#8221; and walked away. How sad. Here was this obviously well-intentioned woman, who most likely owned an interesting business but never learned what to do at a card exchange. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2019/08/networking-more-than-handing-out-business-cards-jim-donovan/" title="Permanent Link: Networking Is More Than Just Handing Out Business Cards" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":3446,"date":"2019-08-17T08:09:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T13:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=3446"},"modified":"2020-12-17T17:47:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T22:47:20","slug":"networking-more-than-handing-out-business-cards-jim-donovan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2019\/08\/networking-more-than-handing-out-business-cards-jim-donovan\/","title":{"rendered":"Networking Is More Than Just Handing Out Business Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/images\/speakers_images\/jim-donovan-11.jpg\" width=\"95\" height=\"143\" alt=\"Jim Donovan\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" \/>At a Chamber of Commerce Business Card Exchange several years ago a well-dress woman walked up to me, business card in hand and, in perfect form held it in both hands in front of me, gesturing for me to take it.<\/p>\n<p>I took the card from her and smiled. She looked up and in a polite voice, said &#8220;Thank you,&#8221; and walked away. How sad. Here was this obviously well-intentioned woman, who most likely owned an interesting business but never learned what to do at a card exchange. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2019\/08\/networking-more-than-handing-out-business-cards-jim-donovan\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Networking Is More Than Just Handing Out Business Cards\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}