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Friday, April 29, 2011

The Business Card

A historian, now retired and writing books, gave me his business card. It has the usual information alongside a small cartoon of him.

I have a group of cards from several people. All of those are quite formal. Which card do you think I can spot from across the room? Which card immediately told me more about its owner?

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  1. My first real job was in the cheese business. The young president of the company carried two versions of his business cards. One was the generic card with logo, &c. (color of cheese, of course). The other was the same card, but with a few random holes made with a paper punch. Most of the time he used the generic card, but if he thought someone was really clever he gave out one with holes, knowing the person would make a connection with Swiss cheese.

    Among my collection of cards one of my favorites is a wrecker service called Big Tow. The card is a die-cut shape of...
    a big toe.

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  2. John,

    Great examples. I kept a bizarre business card from a photographer for years because it was so out of the ordinary.

    Michael

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