Friday, March 12, 2010
The Business Card Is Alive and Well After All
Lifehacker: "Earlier this week we asked if you still carried business cards, pointing out that the business card feels more and more outdated in a digital age. Your response: Digital age be damned!"
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The business card is an effective way to give contact information when one meets people for the first time. Maybe the 13 percent of people are not in need of developing network or working inside the office building. Otherwise, I can not imagine myself exchanging contact information with mobiles in a hand and saying, "I have just called. Now you'll get my number..." in the business occasion. That's not smart.
Please carefully take a look at the picture! This is the way Japanese people give and receive the business card. I do not why this picture is used for this article, though.
Also I am glad to see somebody commented about the picture, saying "In Japan, you always present the card as shown in the picture...as you hand it to them with a slight bow", exactly.
In Japan, we respectfully treat business cards when we received from people. Some rules say, the business card acts like a face (interpret this as a "representation") of that person. Not like just a piece of paper.
(I am sorry for keeping deleting previous posts, due to PC error.)
Until people are capable of instnatly beaming little files of contact information to each other with the push of button, I think the business card will survive. While I guess it's a little outdated, a business card is just far easier and more convenient then any other method for quickly giving a person your contact information. Sure with the rise of smart phones you can probably email someone right on the stop, but still, business card is a physical thing saying "I'd like to talk to you again," and that means a lot to some popele.
I completely agree that business cards are still useful, despite the continuing growth of technology. Although most of us can easily store all the information on a business card in our phones now, I still believe they are useful in getting information out, if not for continuous reference. Instead of waiting while someone puts your name, address, telephone number into their electronic device while you dictate the information, you can just hand them a business card and they can insert the information as they please.
Like Hidenori said, the business card is a very effective way to promote yourself and easily distribute your contact information. What I love are the really interesting technologically advanced business cards. Yeah, I probably wouldn't use one for myself, but I think they are really cool. I also like the very aesthetically interesting business cards. The only thing that I am interested in finding out more about is how one can order a smaller amount of business cards. The smallest I've been able to find is 100. Hopefully there are orders that can be smaller than that.
In the theatre world, getting a job is all about knowing, and being remembered by people. This is a combination of many things including, but not limited to: appearance, mannerisms, resume, website, business cards, etc. The business card is the most compact way of relaying your information to others in a condensed way.
Because of that, the business card should reflect the person it represents. It should, while not taking away from the readability of the information, mirror the aesthetic and informational styles of the person. In a world where the goal is to stand out, business cards have become a forum in which to do this. I have seen metal, plastic, biodegradable, stretchy, and scented business cards with variable levels of success. I am interested to see how long it will be before digital cards take over completely.
I agree that the business card is still useful. Also the interesting thing is that there is the way to give business card in culture. As Hidenori said that in Korea, people hand it to them with a slight bow like as Japan. I think business manners are important as well as business card.
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