I run a small business and do a lot of networking and I've noticed that people aren't really handing out business cards anymore. Do you still use them?

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[–] 46 points 9 months ago (13 children)

Depends on the demographic you are interacting with. When networking with other professionals it is probably easier to just scan a QR code to a file of contact information. A quick import and you're already in my contracts.

In terms of being able to leave the information somewhere, cards work well. Attaching to a project portfolio, handing to someone so they can pass it on, leaving as a support contract after a project is complete, etc.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Literally yesterday I was given a business card with a QR code on it haha

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    I'm gonna be honest, I have no clue, I didn't scan it. Not because it wasn't interesting or anything like that, but because making deals isn't my job. I got it because it (sort of) used to be mine, but since it isn't anymore I passed the card on to the person whose job it now is haha

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (5 children)

    Maybe NFC cards would work better than QR and normal cards

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    NFC cards are far more expensive than printed paper business cards.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    You make one and each time your client ask for contact infos you use the card to give 'em your phone number/email/website instead of giving a card to each client

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    I feel like a business card is something physical to hand people so they have it to look back at later. If you're just looking to NFC tap your contact info onto people's phones, why wouldn't you just use your own phone to do it?

    This reminds me of something tangentially related. Sometime around the turn of the century I worked at a small business where some vendor came in to solicit interest in his business' services, and left a working CD-ROM business card. That mildly impressed the manager because CD-ROMs were still pretty fancy and nobody there had seen a business card like that before, and when run the card had some simple Flash-like slideshow thing with a little video clip or two about their business (which was still impressive when you couldn't really have embedded video clips on your average dialup-friendly website.) Around a week later that same vendor returned asking for the card back because "they're pretty expensive to make and I want to give it to my next prospect," and the manager's impression of him went from mildly impressed to thinking this guy was too hilariously amateurish to bother engaging with.

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