Letters after your name...

[mine]

Hi by the way Stephen, my names Sam.

 

Nice to meet you bud

[Stephen Blair]

hi Sam, you are diferent from me. By the time someone handed me a card i would have them in a category already, and that category will change as the meeting unfolds.

Firstly time keeping, secondly vehicle, third appearance, 4th the way they carry themselves, 5th eye contact, 6th hand shake and general introduction.

If they handed me a card straight away i would either think they were nervous or full of it. And that would depend on how they handed it to me. Then the card would tell me something too, quality of print, quality of card etc etc.

I dont know what any of the letters mean, i know there is no 'letters ' police and making cards up is very simple.

I have a range of cards and advertising gimicks to cover a wide range of person, i think you should have something similar and only hand over the right ones to the right person:thumbup1:

[ad15]

this is too 'Mine', if i someone came to your house to look at some work, and handed over their card and they had letters after their name, what would you think?

 

i would suggest they got some consonants

 

my had has a few after his name,, including MBE,, he doesn't use them,, but i do, every time i send a letter,, i'm proud of the fact my pops has an MBE so i'm happy to tell the posty..

[Stephen Blair]

whats a 'had'?

[Gareth Dalzell]

Lilke others have said - if you have the letters use them. I don't sign off letters or correspondence with them after my name but I do have them on my business cards. Yes it might all be perception, but that doesn't really matter. If you can get across to someone that you have experience, competance and the cherry on top you have a professional qualification and you end up in court often the only real bench mark they are going to take into consideration is the qualification because nothing else has been measured in their terms.

 

It doesn't make me any better than the guy without letters but it is often perceived that way and on those occassions, youll get the job and the other guy won't. So if you're in business, you want to give yourself every edge, so use them.

[mine]

your right with that I suppose you would start forming an opinion before a card ever appeared.

 

I like the idea of several cards/flyers etc...

[Recceboy]

hi Sam, you are diferent from me. By the time someone handed me a card i would have them in a category already, and that category will change as the meeting unfolds.

Firstly time keeping, secondly vehicle, third appearance, 4th the way they carry themselves, 5th eye contact, 6th hand shake and general introduction.

If they handed me a card straight away i would either think they were nervous or full of it. And that would depend on how they handed it to me. Then the card would tell me something too, quality of print, quality of card etc etc.

I dont know what any of the letters mean, i know there is no 'letters ' police and making cards up is very simple.

I have a range of cards and advertising gimicks to cover a wide range of person, i think you should have something similar and only hand over the right ones to the right person:thumbup1:

 

What happens when someone goes to shake your hand and they've placed a business card in there as though there trying to slip you some money. Like they do in the films?

[elicokiz]

I always use MHORT after my name as well as Bsc unfortunatley people soon figure out it means Bronze Swiming Certificate, but i'm sticking with it?

Dave

[likeitorlumpit]

I never use BSc. even though I have one

Strange world ain't it

[elicokiz]

I always use MHORT after my name as well as Bsc unfortunatley people soon figure out it means Bronze Swiming Certificate, but i'm sticking with it?

Dave

 

I belive if you have earned it use it ..just taking the p...with the Bsc:thumbup1: