You can be the sole proprietor of your business or one of two thousand sales reps, and it won’t matter: your business card represents you more than any company. Business today is all about networking. The Occupy Every City crowd knows how difficult the job market is. Their degrees and past experience don’t mean as [...]
Some surveys have found that only 10% of people in the business world have their own business card. That doesn’t reveal changing times as much as it casts a bleak perspective on modern professionals. With so many start ups, entrepreneurs, and career daydreamers, too many people today in the business world don’t focus enough on [...]
Even if you have a company that orders a standard set for you, it’s never a bad idea to design your own business cards—unless you’re a criminal. A teenager in the UK learned that lesson the hard way. Having observed the business world, he knew the value of having his own business card; he just [...]
Just about every design blog in the world will have at least one entry devoted to creative business cards. Interior designers, architects, and visual artists have a real knack and plethora of art supplies to invent unique, complicated, and beautiful cards advertising their business. Some use standard card stock, but a lot employ other materials [...]
Scheming up a great business card design can be a pretty intimidating endeavor to most professionals. For artists, it’s one of the few parts of the business world they find appealing; for accountants and most sales reps, it’s a responsibility they dread, or at best just a task to get done. Not everyone is a [...]
If you’re handed a hundred business cards at a trade show, it’s probably because your business or services are a hot commodity among others. Collecting so many business cards can be flattering, because in some ways they serve as a professional currency. With modern printing fees and design software that anyone can manage, the costs [...]
Design blogs love any unique business card: an origami crane that advertises an Asian fusion restaurant, a packet of seeds to promote a landscaping business. They’re little works of art, and they’re appealing to just about everyone, but what the blogs don’t mention is how impractical they are for most professional connections. They’re pretty, but [...]
Countless businesses keep fishbowls near the register. In itself, that sounds strange, but you’ve probably seen so many of them that it just looks standard. You know immediately what they’re for: contests to win a free lunch, oil change, or floral arrangement. All you have to do is toss in your business card, so most [...]
We blogged a while back about a business card reader for smart phones. In the weeks since, dozens of similar apps have emerged, some free, some (relatively) expensive, all with the same intention: connecting business cards and social media. They usually work by photographing physical cards and digitally transferring the information into address books; the [...]
You might give your business card out selectively, but you can expect a lot of people will see it at some point. Many get passed around intentionally; some are lost and picked up by strangers you’ve never met; and some are displayed prominently where any passerby can see them. Business cards have a way of [...]
