What does your business card look like?
Months ago I had read an excerpt from an Alex Mandossian article on creating a more compelling business card. While I did not follow all steps he has suggested for creating a better business card I did proceed to do two of his three suggested business card design tips.
- I put my photo (Twitter avatar) on my business card
- I put an offer with a secret code to redeem for a free e-book: Leveraging YOUR Power through Twitter
Earlier this month when I was in Denver I was chatting with a gentleman and a woman at T. Harv Eker’s Millionaire Mind Intensive Weekend. During the conversation the woman asks for my business card. As I proceed to hand it to her the gentleman immediately announced, “We talk on Twitter!”
Stop. Think. Ask, “We do? Who are you on Twitter?” (feeling a tad bit ashamed that I don’t recognize him)
He replies, “I’m @JosephRanseth”
About 15 seconds later I made the mental connection and was amazed that here I’ve run into a person from Canada, I’m from Wisconsin and we are both at a seminar in Denver, CO.
Had it not been for my Twitter avatar on my business card neither of us would have ever made the connection.
This past week I was telling this story to some friends at a TweetUp and @gegere mentioned that he recently had a similar instance due to a Gravatar.
In my case, I am my “brand” – I’m not fancy and will never be recognized like Nike or Coca-Cola. Due to the amount of time I spent on Social Media networks it’s important to me that all of my pictures are consistent for easy recognition.
While you may not want to splash your avatar on your business card as I did, consider at least setting up an account at Gravatar so that your blog comments show the same photo as you have on Twitter.
Have you had a similar social media encounter? Share your stories in the comment section.
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Thanks for sharing, Michelle! Recently, I attended a “tweetup” type of event, and I realized I was saying, “Hi, I am Paula Belyeu, also known as @pbelyeu”. It’s amazing how much Social Media is changing our introductions and conversations at local events. Love it!
Thanks again! Great post!
@pbelyeu
Paula:
I am laughing as I read it because it’s so true. When we have our local TweetUps I find myself asking people, “What’s your @name?”!
Hey Michelle,
I loved this! I was actually searching around the web for info. about business cards. As always, you have such good info! I found this blog you posted and find it to be such good advice. I think I am going to repost and link a blog from me about business cards.
Tanx again for helping me out! Anita
Anita – glad it was useful to you! I was super excited when I found Alex’s blog post as I had read the info on “paper”. It made it easier to reference his business card strategies by including the blog post.
Wow, that’s an amazing story. This sort of thing gives new meaning to it’s a small world. I think it’s great, though, because it makes meeting people online that much more special since you realize you may actually bump into them in real life.
Jaylen – Twitter certainly does make the world smaller. @JosephRanseth is a great guy and we talk several times a week now since meeting “accidentally” in Denver!
Well i think both the things are totally different. I think social media is the only thing through which you can get a chance to connect to the world. Here you can get the lots of services. It is very sad that most of the people think that social media is a chat only.
Nansi – social media does give us opportunities to connect with the world in a way we’ve never really been able to before.