When you first meet someone in the business setting you should only request a business card if you provide yours first… most of the time.

There’s an exception to this rule that you’ve learned. When exchanging business cards with someone of a higher business position you HAVE to wait for that person to offer you their card first. Do not request a card or push your card on them. This seems pathetic and nosey.

In addition, only provide one business card unless they request more instead of leaving two, three, or twenty with them to hand out to their colleagues. If you do this, most likely they will not land in the hands of their associates, rather, in the bottom of the trash for your pushy persistence. The contact is no your sales person and will consider your gesture tacky.

Matt Peschong

Most professional business people have their e-mail boxes arranged in descending order. The most recent message received will be the first read.

As everyone is naturally lazy, the business professional you write or respond to will open their most recent emails first. Those first emails can be yours if you make magic with what your email service offers you.

Let’s say its 5:00pm and your checking your email the last time before going home. You decide to send the responses right then and there. But wait, the person your writing to will not check their email till 6:30 or 7:00am. Instead, select the option that allows the email to be sent out at a designated time, such as 6:00 or 7:00am so your email will be one of the first ones that they see and will likely get you a quicker response.

If you really want a response, send the email on a Wednesday and select the option that has it arrive Thursday morning. Thursdays are the days business professionals are most likely to respond to inquiries.

Matthew Peschong
Minnesota Web Site Design