I'M SURE YOU MEET A LOT OF PEOPLE IN YOUR TRAVELS — FELLOW CONSULTANTS, CONTRACTORS, VENDORS, STRATEGIC PARTNERS, MANUFACTURERS, ETC.

You might have in your regulars in your "favorites" (a.k.a. "speed dial") or committed to memory. But what do you do with all of those other cards you've collected over the years? Not only phone numbers but physical addresses and email addresses too?

Let's face it. We all have great intentions of adding this pile of cards into a database of some sort, but instead, they usually wind up on our desk. When the pile gets too high, we add a rubber band around them. Then that stack might migrate to a drawer until the rubber band dries out and the stack of cards scatters everywhere. After a year or so we ultimately do the painful thing and toss them in the trash. What a waste!  Continue reading.......