June 9th, 2011, 2 Comments »
I was going through some storage boxes, and discovered it.
In 1991, my two classmates and I produced a yearbook video for our graduating class (at Sentinel Secondary School, hence the name). We sold it for $20 a tape, and probably netted $100 each at the end of the year. It did give socially-awkward 17-year-old me something to do at parties and sports events, instead of actually talking to people.
Yeah, I was a bit of a nerd in high school. This should come as a surprise to no one.
I remember my mother pointing out that we probably shouldn’t be wasting our money on business cards. After all, who did we have to give them to? She was right, but we got them printed up anyway. Totally worth it.
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June 10th, 2008, 17 Comments »
We finally got around to getting new business cards made. Our old ones were woefully out of date and, besides, I’d run out. Here’s the new card:
The talented Nick Monahan did the design. It’s rather minimalist. I give full credit to Julie on this, as it was her idea. I like it a lot, though, and here’s why.
What is a business card? It’s a token. An artifact of a conversation (or, when I speak and leave a stack for people to pick up, a physical memento of the talk I gave). What do people need later on? A reminder of who I was (hence the photo), and a means to contact me. That’s all.
Everything else feels a little superfluous. We move around a lot, so our physical location often changes. Likewise, our focus and services have changed significantly in the past couple of years. That’s likely to happen again. Finally, we are different things to different people. Sometimes I’m a speaker. Sometimes I’m a blogger. Sometimes I’m a book author. And so on. It’s tricky to meaningfully encapsulate that on one card.
Hence, the less-is-more approach. I ensured that one side would be white, so that I could make a little show of manually writing my phone number on a card if somebody wanted it. It makes them feel special, and that can’t hurt.
What do you think?
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