I often tell people that networking is not a mad dash for business cards; that the people you see at professional events who scurry around passing out and collecting cards as quickly as possible are doing it wrong.  I also say the you don't need a huge network to see positive business results from your networking efforts. But the other day I was running out of room in my desk drawer, so I had to throw out a stack of business cards.  There were over 1,200 business cards from the networking connections I made during the first five years I was running RockStar Consulting.  It was not a small stack. So then, why do I tell people to not … [Read more...]