New business cards – do I even need them?
Posted on: April 9, 2009 at 11:39 pm | Posted under: Design, Life, TechnologyTags: business cards, mobile technology, networking
My new business cards arrived today from UPrinting.com and I couldn’t be more pleased. The great part about getting these cards is that I only had to pay for shipping! The company was running a special during the month of March for 1,000 free business cards for “Creative Professionals”. Since I just finished up with my new logo, I figured that it was perfect timing and took advantage of the opportunity.
Is the traditional business card dead?
Last month I heard about a new service called Contxts, which lets you share 140 characters of information with people that send an SMS to their number with your name. The sign-up process is pretty simple and once you have your details entered, you can tell people to get your information by texting your name to 50500.
Business cards are easily lost, get destroyed and take up space. By having the details of a person sent to you via SMS, there is no excuse for not having their information.
With the ever-expanding base of mobile device users, is the traditional business card dead?
Share your thoughts, cheers!
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Apr 10, 2009 - 03:04:05I noticed you requested my txtcard tonight :) Works good huh? Through @penguin I met the guy who built it (Daniel) up in Boulder… great service.
I have business cards now and only because I made them for SXSWi but otherwise I never have cards. Basically I see it that they should remember my name after I make a decent impression and they can find me from there as I pretty much dominate the SERPs for my name…. and if I don’t – I must not be doing my SEO job very well ;)
Though, bizcards are a necessary evil sometimes.
IMO, traditional business cards are not going away anytime soon.
They are just so much faster to hand out than to open a device and plug in information. We are getting there though where they may be phased out, but not for a long time.
-JP