Comments on: What should a social media marketer’s business card look like?

By: Mike Davis

Mike Davis — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:40:44 +0000

Hey hey! GREAT article. Great perspective. If I do ever go back to carrying a business card, I will definitely seek your advice.

But my vote is for scheuguy to be a household name :)

Keep on rockin’ the casba!

There’s no recession on passion!
–Mike.

By: cptvitamin

cptvitamin — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:14:13 +0000

You’re on your way to pick up your new bizcards right now, so this is a little late, but a good site to open an account at is http://www.retaggr.com/ Its like an online business card that aggregates all of your social media accounts. You can link directly to it or embed a badge on another site. I haven’t completed my entire profile yet but you can see an example here: http://www.retaggr.com/Card/cptvitamin

You can put this link on your print biz card and then just keep it updated when your details change.

By: Meg

Meg — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:36:08 +0000

Name, website, number. What’s nice is I’m branded everywhere under my own name. If you put it into Google you get all of me.:)

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:07:34 +0000

Jamie — you know what is on my business card, I believe, because I gave it to you last week! However, if I were to design ones for myself, I would think about first creating a central location for my identities — for example, listing one site (perhaps my blog) that links to all of my other accounts.

The exciting part (and occasional problem) of social media is that it is always changing. By the time you use up your new batch of business cards, you will probably be using other tools, and letting less useful ones fall by the wayside. If you’re paying for business cards, you want them to always be current.

I’d say, go the “Danny Ocean” route — name on the front, one line website on the back (ex. DannyOcean.com) Not only will it stand out because it’s incredibly clean, it will always be in style.

If you’re worried about segmenting (if Flickr friends should get different cards than Twitter buddies), you could always get some mini cards on Moo (http://www.moo.com/products/minicards.php) — they’re really neat, and let you choose up to 100 different images of your own per pack.

Good luck!

Jenny

By: TheMia

TheMia — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:49:20 +0000

I’m at a loss here as well. I’d like something simple, but at the same time, I want something that makes me stand out. And on the other-other hand, I know I’ll get bored very easily by what’s on my card.

Lots of great ideas here:

http://flickr.com/groups/94357154@N00/pool/
http://flickr.com/groups/artofthebusinesscard/pool/
http://flickr.com/groups/bizcard/pool/