The first card I ever received from a client (back in the day when I was still a contractor) was a gold card from a client with a giant al capone business card on the front. I was like, “I have to get a card of an al capone business card to get one from this guy,” but then I realized that I’d never seen one of those cards until I met my dad.
I’ll tell you what. The card that I received from my dad was the first one I ever received from a client. And I just kept asking the guy how he liked my new office.
There are many reasons an al capone business card is a bit of a rarity, most prominently because your business card is the first thing people see and it’s often the last thing you actually see. So it’s important to keep it simple. Use a standard-size card, and the letters are in black ink, the numbers are in red ink, and the logo is in white ink.
Most people don’t use the lettering, or they use it on something else. The lettering is also often used for business cards to advertise a company. That’s not really a problem here because you are using the standard-sized card for something else.
This is a problem because this might encourage people to use your card for something else (e.g. a website, a tweet, a Facebook post) that they might not have the nerve to use for their own business. They will still see it on your business card until they find a person who can write their own business card, but they wont see what you are writing on it until they actually do.
This is a problem because the al capone business card could possibly be used for more than one thing, e.g. a website, a phone number, a tweet, a Facebook post, and maybe even a website. It might be a little hard to differentiate between what you do for your business and what you do for a website.
One of the best ways to distinguish between what you do with your business and your business website is to put the website address and the business address on the business card. This is especially important if your business is not a website but the address is a business website. Doing so will ensure that no one can link from it to your business website.
Business cards are a good way to give the appearance of credibility. For example, the CEO of a company might want to look like he’s an executive of the company (but only if that’s the only way they can tell), but by putting his organization’s name on the card it also shows his authority within the organization.
Business cards would look silly if you didn’t have an actual card with your real name and phone number on.
That is a very good point, and they do have to be kept private. But the cards would be useful for other purposes too. This is a perfect example of how the internet has made it easier than ever for companies to appear to be legit.
