[GRLUG] buisness card

[Topher]

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 are very out of date.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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