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Do you have your business card handy right now? Do you have your smartphone with you? Let me take a guess: Negative and positive.

Correct?

That’s what I thought.

Now you may remember to carry your business cards for seminars, conferences and other networking events–but what about on a daily basis, for those random “water cooler” encounters, or for those times when you want to network with someone at a party who happens to work for a company you want to do business with?

It may be easy enough to create business cards and print your own cards, but remembering to carry them with you on a daily basis is an entirely different matter.

With some smartphone apps and services, you can carry a digital version of your business card and easily share it with anyone at anytime. The people you meet and what to share it with don’t even need to have the same smartphone or assosicated app themselves, as many of these services also allow you to send your card with a simple email.

Many of these smartphone apps add features that paper business cards can’t offer, such as location and event tracking–so you can remember where a certain card came from–or matching widgets to add to your website. And some will import your information from the popular social networking sites Facebook and LinkedIn.  Some also allow you to organize your information into multiple cards representing various businesses or freelance projects so that you can e what information you share with each person.

Learn more about digital business cards and some of these smartphone apps at businesscardscenter dot info.