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Over at Coroflot's Creative Seeds blog Carl Alviani has compiled a short list of specifics that aim to shed a little more light on this crucial but undefinable skill, networking. Read the beginning of a few...

"1.It's not about the first impression, it's about the third.
You know what they say about the Third Date, right? There's a reason the number three has so much meaning attached to it in relationships, and it's true in professional networking as well.

2. A nice business card is nice, but it's just a piece of paper.
I remember the first time I had business cards printed up--500 of them, for Design Week in New York. They were dreadful, but to me they signified that I had arrived. I must have handed out 150 of those things over the course of the week, and I'm confident 99.5% of them never got looked at again.

3. Obsequious: Look it up. And don't be it."

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