Check Check Check

Steve Brossman, Direct Response Marketing Coach & Professional Speaker

Hi All,

Just want to let you know of an experience I just had last week. I was heading off to a weekend seminar in Melbourne and because I have just re branded myself, Pam offered to do some really funky new business cards.

They looked sensational and were a standout hit, or should I say a stand up hit. You see they were a slightly longer than normal and folded so that it stood up. I have to tell you it looked really cool sitting at the evening dinner with everyone at my end of the table with my business card sitting up in front of them.

OK that's the good news. The bad news is that I have several businesses and each has different email addresses ending in either .net.au .net .com.au or .org.au .That's enough to confuse anyone. Well it was enough to confuse Pam because my email address on my card was missing the .au at the end of stevieb@bigpond.net.au and if you had have seen all the spelling mistakes in the first go of my last blog you will understand when I checked the card it looked alright.

So being my little networking self I gave out about 30 cards over the weekend and now I am busily contacting everyone that I got cards from to let them them know of the mistake.
Now the really bad news. There were people at the weekend that didn't have business cards....

Can you believe that. Business people going to an event not carrying business cards. AAAGGGHHHH ! What were they thinking. It's a Golden Rule ALWAYS have business cards. No exceptions. So if this was you and you are upset with me that I haven't replied to an email you may have sent me please email me as above, I promise I'll get back to you.

Anyway it was a very successful weekend I learnt heaps, got invited to do 2 talks and did at least one joint venture. And did you know there were people who just sat, listened and did nothing. They are probably the same people who say that their business isn't growing. OK Off that soap box because I think that Networking for profit a whole new topic that I want to talk about later.

But the moral of the story is check things thoroughly or you will be up for some extra work down the track.

Chat later.