[GRLUG] buisness card

[Don Ellis]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 17:37 -0500, Clay Ashby wrote:
>> I've found business cards a very good advertising tool. There have
>> been countless times when I get a call only to find out when I get to
>> the customers house that my card is sitting there on their desk. Also;
>> it looks much better than writing it down on a paper. ;)
>> I am without a doubt pro-business card!
>
> +1  The last thing I want to do is stand there while some dufus fiddles
> with his tablet/phone/laptop/netbook/etc...  Business cards are cheap,
> easy, durable, and *fast*.
>
>> So much easier than fumbling around with your contact list on your
>> phone. Even if the customer takes the card and only keeps it long
>> enough to record it into their phone/computer.
>
> That is exactly why I use them for.  I stuff them in my pocket and later
> on enter them into the computer - at my leisure and without consuming
> any of their time.  And I typically enter more information than is on
> the business card - if it is work entering at all it is worth
> categorizing or relating to a calendar event - which is essentially
> impossible to do on a phone anyway.
>

Same here, and I try to make a note on the card of when I got it and
where, and (maybe) why the card is significant. May go through the
collection when I get it home, but notes are priceless!

--Don Ellis

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