Ditto to what Justin said. Business cards work better as a reminder than a stand-alone sales pitch. The idea is that I - the loyal SkullSpace member - will meet and talk to someone interested in the organization. During the conversation, I will give them a business card. The card gives them a simple reminder of the conversation, as well as gives them the information they need to follow up with me.
I can't speak for everyone, but this is what I need when I'm networking/promoting with business cards: - Website - Organization name - Organization address - My name* - My email* - My phone number* - General branding: Logo, colour scheme, and knowledge.community.technology Optional: - Hours for the general weekly meeting What I don't want on a business card: - ANYTHING ELSE. Especially not advertisements for free business card companies. *For general non-personalized SkullSpace business cards, the email address should be [email protected]. However, the back of the card should be left *blank* so I can write in my own contact info or the contact info of one of the board members. With that in mind, I'm going to spend my lunch break shamelessly judging the business cards of the other hackerspaces :D 1) ENTS: Absolutely perfect for a non-personalized business card. Clean design, on point branding, and the back is left blank for personal info. 2) Protospace: Winning when it comes to pretty design and branding, but not as functional for facilitating follow-up. No website link, no room for personal contact info, etc. In a world with google this isn't a problem for prospective members, but media contacts and non tech people might be irked. Some may argue that the QR code is as good as a website link; I personally would like to meet someone who still scans QR codes after the novelty wore off. 3) Scoperta: Fail on the branding. I seriously have two other cards with the exact same free business card design in my wallet *right now*. I have more at home. This card will blend right in with them. However, it is still quite functional and has everything needed for follow-up contact. The design is a terrible shame though, especially since Scoperta itself has some nice branding. ... I can't believe I just spent the first half of my Friday lunch break on a long-winded email about business cards *facepalm* - Jay / @Sporked On 30/08/2013 11:09 AM, Roswyne wrote: > p.s. Here are samples of other hackerspace cards I've picked up, for > comparison: ENTS (Edmonton), Protospace (Calgary), Scoperta (Calgary). > Only one is double sided, and just has a QR code... > > > > > On Aug 30, 2013 11:02 AM, "Roswyne" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > You're probably right: what's more important, the times people can > come, or the map showing where to go? > > On Aug 30, 2013 10:54 AM, "Justin Lacko" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > It's higher quality than what Colin could make ;) > > That's looking more like a brochure - lots of text on one face > of a small card would be very difficult to read, imo. > > > On 30 August 2013 17:40, Roswyne <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Here's my ugly mockup. Surely it's as high quality as > anything Colin could make! > > > > On Aug 30, 2013 10:16 AM, "Justin Lacko" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I can help design the cards if you give me a deadline > and the text it should read. I can't work on it for the > next week or two though, but I'll be glad to help if I can. > > Lord forbid Colin designs us cards... > > > On 30 August 2013 16:36, Roswyne <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Does anyone know if we signed up for a table? I > think last year one of the AssentWorks guys signed > us up. Jay, do you know? > > I'll try to get the Pixelart framed, and make sure > there's software on the baby Dell. (that would be > taken anyway, right?) > > I'm also looking into getting SkSp business cards > printed - I think they'd be more cost effective than > the admittedly gorgeous colour brochures we have. > Does anyone want to help me plan/design them? > > On Aug 30, 2013 9:11 AM, "Nathan Wild" > <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I'm down with manning the table for some portion > of the con... > > NOTE TO ALL: If we are doing this (which I think > we should), we need stuff to show off at the > booth. We can only get so much mileage out of > Ben's NES stuff :) > > > On 30 August 2013 08:23, Roswyne > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > wrote: > > AssentWorks is already soliciting > volunteers, and mentioned SkullSpace would > likely be setup nearby. > > Are we going? If so, who's coordinating our > table? They're talking about having > multiple tables, so I don't think we'd just > be sharing one. > > IIRC, we need to not only man the table > throughout the con, but provide manpower to > help with setup and teardown for the > convention (in order to get the table for free). > > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: > > http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: > > https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ > > > > > -- > *Nathan T. 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