Hi Scott! I'm going to a Chamber mixer tonight and want to pass out business card sized "Free Sessions" for my new biz dev. service to get some more leads. Any ideas or imput?

Sounds like a fun idea, don’t have any illusions about the % uptake from things like that though. People tend to take a lot of cards and stuff at events but rarely follow up.

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