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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do a lot of work with groups around the world and I often meet with people with difficult names to remember.  Putting all the business cards together from the same meeting allows me to remember the name and place the person the next time I see them...'oh, Person A, it's great to see you again.  We met last January in Prague at the XYZ conference.  How did your research on ABC turn out?  I'd love to follow up with you and Person B next time you're in DC' 
I used to not label with the date/place but if you meet with multiple groups from a certain company throughout the year and they all have difficult-to-remember names, then I would get confused by a stack of business cards not remembering which of the 10 cards from company X involved the conversation about a specific topic.

If someone gives me a card and asks me to follow up with them on something, I also write that info right on the card.
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While I don't put them in 3-ring binders (I use a index card box), I do the same thing.  When I get a card, I jot down what I need to remember about that person - where I met them, what they asked for, sometimes even what they can do for me in the future.  Often times this is done on the flight home from the meeting/conference.

Back in my office I stack up the cards in my box – writing down my action items on my ongoing to do list.  I throw out the ones with nothing written on the back, if I didn’t have anything worth writing on the back of their card, I'm not going to need it.  I periodically go through the box, again throwing out cards I don’t forsee using in the future.  I’ll also follow up with folks I need to/would benefit from at that point.

I can’t say that it’s been too often that I get a cold-call type contact and have to go through the box to remind myself of who they are though.   I’m not entirely sure of the utility of the card box – it’s a habit that I suspect will go by the wayside.   That said – I’m glad I don’t have all those contacts in my outlook, so many cards I get I never hear from the person again! 
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