I go to a lot of conferences. It’s a great place to meet new people, start conversations and solidify relationships. There’s always a lot of networking involved and I always come home with gaggles of business cards. We all do right?

When someone hands you their business card, you reciprocate with one of your own. Then, a week later I would magically start to receive newsletters I never signed up for. You too? Sometimes there’s an unsubscribe at the bottom – other times there’s not.

Correct me if I’m wrong but when I said, “Hi it’s nice to meet you!” the next words out of my mouth were NOT “please sign me up for your newsletter…” were they?

I thought I’d be smart and start handing out a different card at conferences. That still didn’t work.

Then I switched to just stickers.

Great buzz and you definitely stand apart from the crowd but I still get the crap newsletters. How’s this instead…

JUST STOP IT!!!

Can you hear me now?

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Mike Mueller

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A former professional hand model, Mike builds Custom WordPress Websites that rock!

He's an avid hockey fan, rides a mountain bike, sometimes rides a road bike, has a few motorcycles (he had a really fast one, bought a cool orange one, rode a really slow one, and wants a really small one). If that isn't enough, he makes cheese and sourdough bread, loves strong beer and good red wine, and poorly plays the Mandolin.