As much as wearing a nametag or driving a marked car, shaking hands while maintaining eye contact will make a positive impression on anyone you meet.
Just remember, dead fish handshakes and too-firm handshakes are bad. Keep your hand relatively firm, shake two or three times and smile.
Shaking hands sets the other person at ease.
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