Are Business Cards a Necessary Part of Starting a Business?

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Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2017

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Today's question comes from Brian, who has a question about business cards. Should he create business cards when he first starts his business? Does he bring business cards with him when he goes to conferences? What are some strategies to use to connect and engage with people at conferences? Are there any alternatives to business cards? In this episode, I mention that today is launch day for Smart From Scratch, my new online course created to help you validate your business idea. Learn more and sign up at http://www.smartfromscratch.com/. Do you have a question about business cards? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. For AskPat Live, go to http://facebook.com/smartpassiveincome. Thanks to Zip Recruiter for sponsoring today's episode. Go to http://www.ziprecruiter.com/pat to get started posting jobs today. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:11.0	Hey, what's up, everybody?
0:12.0	Pat here and welcome to Ask Pat.
0:14.0	Episode 810.
0:15.0	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:17.0	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:20.0	We have a great question today from Brian, but before we get to that, I do want to thank today's
0:23.7	sponsor, which is ZipRecruiter. So ZipRecruiter is awesome. It's actually a fan favorite here
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