I’m committing the ultimate immortal (yet most unoriginal) sin.
I’m starting a tag virus. Apologies.
But unlike the “5 things you didn’t know about me and won’t ever really remember” meme, this one is valuable… it’s about business cards.
Here is my business card…
Well, that’s not really true. I don’t have business cards. I think they are somewhat silly.
I carry around about 250 blank cards at shows and make the cards up on the spot depending on how well I like the person or how goofy they are to me (taken from one of my online heroes, Hugh McLeod). So, if you receive a flattering card from me at Affiliate Summit or in the mail, that’s good. If you receive some ironic poetry with a caustic tale, that’s probably a reflection of how I feel about your strategy or program.
For instance, here’s one I might give to Carsten Cumbrowski…
I respect him.
So, I’m going to tag 3 of you to show your business card on your blog. You know the deal after that… you have to tag 3 others and so on.
So, I tag the following to get this going:
Make it work, because it can be a pretty cool experience for all of us…
Ok, I’ll can mine in on Monday when I’m back in the office, but I have to tell you, I have 3 business cards, and they all are pretty lame compared to your fun thing. Neat idea to do that, but I can’t even write my name hardly, couldn’t draw a stick figure!
OK, I need to design a real card anyway… humm… I like your idea too Sam, may have to work a variation on that theme… 🙂 I know the 3 people I want to tag too…. give me until sometime Sunday or Monday. We’ll git r done!
Sounds good, Loxly… take your time!
Feel free to do a variation. As I said, my cards are a variation on Hugh McLeod’s, so it’s all relative!
Looking forward to seeing your final product!
Sam
lol, I have to be creative… I haven’t been very creative recently… good challenge and good timing… part of my problem is the variety in what I do… my friends like to ask me “Who do you work for today?” and the answer changes… 🙂
Exactly!
The “who do you work for” question can easily be answered on the spot with customizable business cards. Wouldn’t it be great if we all had those? It would certainly slow the whole card exchange process down (which I don’t think would be a bad thing).
Not as personal as yours, but I posted mine as you know
here. One of them includes 2-3 hours pixel work, so it is a bit personal. Just mass replicated afterwards :).
If I only give it to 30 people or so, the time spent on it divided by the number of people that received the card would make up the time it took you to make yours and we are okay hehe.
p.s. Carsten is supposed to mean something religious or spiritual, but not Guru. I forgot what it was, but it has to do with “abrade”. Something that might be a bit more accurate hehe.
Cheers!
I think you need to get a little rubber stamp.
Ha! Good idea, Simon. Maybe carry around variations such as “I’d like to do business with you” or “Please don’t call me after this conference because I think you’re an idiot.”
Nah, I could never be that harsh. Except for when you are trying to enter the industry parties which “require a business card” for admission. How silly. I normally try to make up something extra mean for those.
Hmm… I’ll have to do some thinking on that… thanks for the idea!
I absolutely love this! best idea i’ve read/heard in a while. maybe you can send me one of your cards. 😉
Ah, that was all only for show and attention grabbing. He handed out boring standard layout business cards in black and white at the summit.
Just kidding.. 🙂
I got a hand-written one as promised and still try to decipher it. College Teachers and PhD. hand-writing, what can I tell you hehe.
Just kidding again. I am only trying to give Sam a hard time.
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