Working With Americans: How To Use A Business Card

How is a business card used appropriately?

The business card is very intimate and in the old days they were just a great way of storing information because people didn't have databases and Palm Pilots and BlackBerry's, they didn't have that information and it was how we kept in touch. We took people's business cards and we put them in a plastic sleeve or we copied that information down when we got back and put them in our data organiser. So the primary reason and appropriate use for a business card to even exist is to exchange contact information. There are very few other reasons we do it, we put them in a letter, or if we're sending information. We also use them for a business gift, to put them in that, or a greeting card of some kind, but other than that, that's really the only reason and appropriate use for a business card.