Do people still hand out physical business cards at events or is it all digital now?
i should have asked before ordering 50, lol
EDIT:
Thank you for all the replies, I’ve got the answer I need but I’ll add some more information just in case anyone wants to know.
- I’m based in Europe and not Japan
- I’m working as a videographer and trying to build a film company
- I plan on doing more event coverage so I’ll bring them with to quickly hand out my contact details.
- The card has the following: Busines name, my name, phone number, email, and website.
- I had thought about adding my social media but couldn’t find a nice way to do it that matched the rest of the card.
EDIT 2: just now realised I didn’t complete the last sentence of the last bullet point
For a while I stopped bringing cards to situations where a card would be a thing and instead I put a QR code on a widget on my phone’s lock screen and told people to just scan that to add my contact info.
Results were… mixed? For a few people it was a cool conversation starter. Others fumbled a bit with what to do.
One guy, though? He was NOT amused. Apparently he made a big point of collecting all of his connections’ cards in binders, and cataloguing them, both as bragging rights and a hobby. I may as well have walked into his house and peed on his stamp collection. It was very awkward.
“the future is now, old man”
when I was a designer and printer, I loved collecting cards to compare prints, designs, paper stock, etc.
But that’s like a stamp collector being mad at email. Wait, are stamp collectors mad at email??