[GRLUG] buisness card

[Mike Williams]

Since Vistaprint gives them out for free (because they're advertising 
themselves as well as you) at least it's not much of an investment. I 
think I might order some just as a salute to their creative business model.

On 02/15/2011 04:58 PM, Topher wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2011, John-Thomas Richards wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 04:11:15PM -0500, Bob Kline wrote:
>>> The people who probably benefit most from business cards are those
>>> that sell business cards.  People move around so much, change
>>> positions, offices, rooms, phone numbers, etc., that unless you're a
>>> salesmen you are never going to unload 500 business cards before they
>>> are very out of date.  I must have gotten thousands while I worked,
>>> and handed out maybe dozens.
>>
>> That probably depends more on the job.  When I was in the trucking
>> industry I handed out dozens of cards.  When I was in sales I handed out
>> hundreds.
>>
>> That being said, why do we still use them?  Is there not a better way?
>> vcard maybe?  Dunno.
>
> When I started at Cornerstone in 2000 they gave me 500 cards.  I gave 
> out 4 in the 10 years I worked there.
>
> I've been in business for myself for 8 months now, and I still don't 
> even HAVE business cards.  Once or twice I've wished I had them, but I 
> just wrote my email address on a piece of paper at the time.  For all 
> that matters my web site doesn't have anything on it but my logo.
>
> How does this work?  I have enough other contact with people that it 
> just doesn't matter.
>
> The moral of the story is you have to decide for yourself if it would 
> be worth it.
>
> topher
>


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