Will you give your name card to a stranger?

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@yanzalong (18987)
Indonesia
November 20, 2017 8:38pm CST
As a marketing manager, you certainly need business cards that you give to your prospective customers. Will you give your name card to a person you don't know or unrelated to your prospective customers? Is there any danger of giving out your name cards because a name card tells who you are, your phone number your address and so on?
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@LadyDuck (472004)
• Switzerland
21 Nov 17
You do not put your personal address to the business cards you give to prospective customers. You must also have a business phone number that it's not your personal number.
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@yanzalong (18987)
• Indonesia
21 Nov 17
Yes, you are right. we should have one phone number for business that is written on the card. Not the phone number we use to communicate with family or banks where we have bank accounts.
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@LadyDuck (472004)
• Switzerland
21 Nov 17
@yanzalong You must not give personal data, just your name and a business number to call.
@LadyDuck (472004)
• Switzerland
21 Nov 17
@toniganzon If you do not give the business cards, I see no way to promote your business. This does not mean to give all your personal info.
@Hannihar (130213)
• Israel
21 Nov 17
I give my business cards to my perspective customers or my customers to pass out to their friends. To someone I do not know or trust I would not give any information to. I do not know what they would do with the information.
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@yanzalong (18987)
• Indonesia
21 Nov 17
I guess that's the right thing to do. I believe customers will keep the cards.
@Hannihar (130213)
• Israel
21 Nov 17
@yanzalong I hope yanzalong they will pass them on to others so hopefully I will get more business.
@Ithink (9980)
• United States
21 Nov 17
Well if it is for a business reason that is what they are for, stranger or not.
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@yanzalong (18987)
• Indonesia
21 Nov 17
I believe so.
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• Philippines
21 Nov 17
Well, that's the best way for them to contact you, you never know if the person is going to be your future client.
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@yanzalong (18987)
• Indonesia
21 Nov 17
I know but the risk is when the card ia lost and found by the criminal.
@cahaya1983 (11116)
• Malaysia
21 Nov 17
I think I would try to make the best judgment call. I can't simply refuse if they're genuinely interested because otherwise I'd lose prospective clients.
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@yanzalong (18987)
• Indonesia
21 Nov 17
Yes, your judgement is important to make sure you don't give your card to the wrong people.
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@peachpurple (13961)
• Malaysia
21 Nov 17
For marketing purpose, yes, I would because walk in customers are strangers too but you need sales, you have to give business cards
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@yanzalong (18987)
• Indonesia
21 Nov 17
For business matters, yes, name cards play a role in maintaining communication with clients.
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@peachpurple (13961)
• Malaysia
21 Nov 17
@yanzalong yup, it is compulsory
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
21 Nov 17
why shoukld here be any danger ifyou are honest only croiioks migh ave some danger
@shivamani10 (11035)
• Hyderabad, India
21 Nov 17
I had a bitter experience. The name card should be given to a person who is quite familiar to you and is trustworthy. One of my officers in my office has given his name card to a client who approached for some work. That man for the reasons best known to him has lost it and it was found on a fine day on a crime site and the police started coming to the office and interrogate the officer. It was a bitter experience for him. From that day I stopped having or giving my name card to any persons. Subsequently, I avoided the printing of the cards.
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@yanzalong (18987)
• Indonesia
21 Nov 17
That is what I mean the danger of giving out name cards.
• China
21 Nov 17
I will give my name card to a stanger cuase the phone number and address is not private. You can have a phone which used to contact your clients and colleagues and the address is your company's address. I think it is safe.
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@yanzalong (18987)
• Indonesia
21 Nov 17
Yes, only phone number mainly related to business not private phone number.