The Fate of Business Cards

I saw an interesting post today by Jeff Pulver titled “Will Business Cards Still Be Used in 2015?“. Jeff brought up the point that the business cards he garnered throughout the year, usually ended up in the bottom of his computer bag.

I recently bought some business cards to represent me in my new company and my new venture. I went through a process in deciding what exactly would go on the card. As Jeff mentions in his post, we have recently gone through and evolution of the business card. It used to be an office phone number, address, maybe a pager number …. But what do we put on it now. We have so many different things we can put on paper to represent and identify us. Should we put our Facebook profile URL, a LinkedIN URL, cell phone, email address, Twitter userid? The options seem endless. And then we have to decide just how much of us we want out “there”.

Jeff’s next question is whether or not we will even exchange business cards in the future. He suggests that maybe will simply bluetooth or info to each other. I would love to say this will be true, but I as it stands now, the wireless providers still see fit to lock down such features such as bluetooth file transfer.

In any case, I decided to go with a non traditional card from a company called Moo. They are integrated with flickr and use your flickr images on the face of the card. The cards are an odd size too, smaller than a traditional business card. I can say that they do get peoples attention because they are different. Maybe this difference will help people remember you later on when they pull it out of their pockets and take note of your info instead of tossing it in the bottom of their computer bag and in the circular file.

So how about you all ? Bought any business cards lately ?