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Re: We still have the scars… (Jeremy wins award for killer business card)

colbert — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 23:29:45 -0000

I'll try to beat Jeremy's cards on the next set of cards I order...I'll add custom LEDs to them. How's that for coolness....I feel a run of "Please PIMP my Business Cards" coming on soon.

Re: We still have the scars… (Jeremy wins award for killer business card)

Jeremy Wright — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:18:54 -0000

Ryan, I've posted the actual pics from the cards here, in case that does help: http://www.ensight.org/arch....

Overall, I'm really happy with them as "event cards". And, yeah, I'm always on the lookout for really, really great cards too. There are a few Flickr groups for it too, I think.

Re: We still have the scars… (Jeremy wins award for killer business card)

ryan burkhardt — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:53:55 -0000

thanks jeremy. seeing that pic in the other post motivated my request since it is relatively blurry but the essence of the card looked pretty interesting.

I like the 'best practices' in general and have followed them, in spirit at least, in the past. for example, at the RSA conf in 2004 I had cards made up for our team that had recruiting information on the back and it really got people's attention - if they flipped the card...

seeing good examples always gets my inspirational juices flowing. unfortunately I don't have any really amazing examples of my own to post.

Re: We still have the scars… (Jeremy wins award for killer business card)

Jeremy Wright — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:08:28 -0000

Scoble posted a quick shot here: http://scobleizer.wordpress...

I'm writing a post on them now, but my key bits for my cards were:

- "@" event bit under the b5media logo
- easy contact info
- something snazzy about the company on the back

In the end, it worked really well. Lots of folk loved the "kickass bloggers" bit on the back, as well as the @techcrunch on the front.

Re: We still have the scars… (Jeremy wins award for killer business card)

ryan burkhardt — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:31:54 -0000

so is there a picture of the "killer business card" that we can oogle? always great to see examples of ones that impess the crowds...

Re: We still have the scars… (Jeremy wins award for killer business card)

Jeremy Wright — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:55:42 -0000

Maybe my Hugh cards were 20$... I ordered 2 sets, the TC ones and the general Hugh ones. Plus, you *did* ask me after Mojitos ;-)

Either way, business cards for events rock and I'll keep on doing them!

Re: We still have the scars… (Jeremy wins award for killer business card)

Hugh MacLeod — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 06:57:41 -0000

I'd be glad to, Robert. E-mail something kinda sorta what you haev in mind [just words will do, I don't need pictures]...

Re: We still have the scars… (Jeremy wins award for killer business card)

ponnuchamy — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 23:39:52 -0000

hgrgrgpigew\

Re: We still have the scars… (Jeremy wins award for killer business card)

Aaron Brazell — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 23:06:06 -0000

Heh. Glad to see someone liked the card. I tried to talk Jeremy out of both the @techcrunch and the "kickass bloggers" on the back because, oh I don't know, was trying to be a little more conservative. :) Silly me.

Re: We still have the scars… (Jeremy wins award for killer business card)

Zoli Erdos — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:20:53 -0000

Robert, where's the link to an image of Jeremy's card? :-)

Re: We still have the scars… (Jeremy wins award for killer business card)

Nicole Simon (Berlin, Germany) — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:46:31 -0000

They are probably great. For somebody in the US. :)

Re: We still have the scars… (Jeremy wins award for killer business card)

Robert Scoble — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:27:10 -0000

Ervin: hmmm, I'll have to ask Jeremy what he ordered. If you order a bunch of different ones, can you get them all printed at the same time?

Re: We still have the scars… (Jeremy wins award for killer business card)

Ervin J — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:23:11 -0000

From what I see, PFL has a $50 minimum for business cards. (?)

Re: We still have the scars… (Jeremy wins award for killer business card)

Brian Sullivan — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 16:50:24 -0000

Thank god (or the great turtle whatever is your preference) -- Christopher and Robert sparring again. Apocalypse avoided this time it seems. ;-)

Re: We still have the scars… (Jeremy wins award for killer business card)

Marc Orchant — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 16:34:22 -0000

Robert:

Great seeing you at the party. On the business card/event idea, I've been ordering cards with Hugh's designs on them from StreetCards for shows and conferences for a few years now. I select a different design each time (my current fave is the sheep and wolf design). They always elicit a lot of intersting reactions.

Jeremy is remarkable guy - he's doing some great work and is growing his network at a very nice pace. But he never forgets why he's doing what he's doing and is utterly lacking in some of the less attractive traits that were on dsiplay at the TC party.

Re: We still have the scars… (Jeremy wins award for killer business card)

Robert Scoble — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:58:20 -0000

Michael: good point. But talking a blogger into doing anything for the improvement of something else is pretty darn tough!

Re: We still have the scars… (Jeremy wins award for killer business card)

Robert Scoble — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:57:20 -0000

Christopher: I must bow my head in deference to the king of snark: you! :-)

Re: We still have the scars… (Jeremy wins award for killer business card)

Christopher Coulter — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:21:53 -0000

So a little snark, wipes away Securities Fraud and all tears? Wonder if the SEC will buy that. Pour on the drinks, forget about that greatest loss of human wealth in history, why that was so last year. Who needs negativity, cynicism, or business plans, gotta have hope, it springs eternal -- all is for the best in this, the best of all possible worlds.

The "linking behavior of bloggers", while slightly human, is more correctly classified as a psychosis, so an algorithm ranking delusional hallucinations. Just keep that in mind, it explains all results, and things like the Dean phenom...

And snark, that people don't half demand your head, John the Baptist style, isn't worthy of the name. What passes for such snark, are insider-baseball jokes with a slight self-deprecation, but not too acidic, wouldn't want to offend, you see...

Re: We still have the scars… (Jeremy wins award for killer business card)

Michael Markman (Mickeleh) — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 14:36:02 -0000

so, techmeme isn't done by humans... it's done by bloggers? Who are, what? sub-human, super-human, extra-terrestrial? trolls? ;)