Wait, Is This Another Meme?
Brian Yerkes, Owner/Creative Director of Brian Joseph Studios and graphic design blog author, is writing (curating, really) a post about the Business Cards of Bloggers. I’ve recently talked about what I do for a living here at MCE, and I thought this rare Sunday post might tie in pretty well with that.
Kelly’s card. You can write, email, or call me.
There’s something in it for me (and for you, too): Write a post, showing your own business card, and Brian will put the image and a link to your post up on his blog. I think you, dear reader, might enjoy getting your business card shown among the zillion others he’ll soon have up, so if you write a blog and have a business card, click here to read about his technical requirements and put your own post up!
If you don’t have a card, what are you waiting for? To get out more, you’re going to need one—so figure out what you’re all about, then have one designed and printed right away so you can get into Brian’s gallery and so you can hand it out as you wear out your own shoe leather!
Whaddya mean you don’t know what you’re all about? Haven’t you been reading along? Catch up this afternoon, and subscribe to the Maximum Customer Experience Blog (top left!) so you don’t miss another moment.
Grow and be well,
Kelly Erickson
P.S. If you’re inspired by this to do a post of your own for Brian, do put a link in the comments here. I’d love to see what your card looks like!
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4 May 2008, 3:55 pm
Kelly,
Wow, there are some really neat designs at Brian’s site, including yours!
Time to dust off one of my old designs and update it, then show it off.
-Brett
4 May 2008, 5:55 pm
Brett,
I hadn’t been there since this morning when I posted this. It looks pretty cute over there!
Come back and put a link in the comments when you do a post, because I wouldn’t want to miss yours. Not that I miss your posts too often.
Regards,
Kelly
4 May 2008, 7:33 pm
Kelly,
I will be sure to come back and let you know – now, back to Brian’s site to see if anything else popped up.
I meant to ask – your card is very good, I assume you designed it?
(maybe I’ll have to hire you)
-Brett
4 May 2008, 8:01 pm
Brett,
Yes, for VisionPoints by me, of course.
A little symbolism: The hint of graph paper is to indicate the emphasis we place on hand work (the way we all used to use graph paper to figure work out back in the stone age). The BrainStorm (squiggly sun or star thing) is symbolic too, but basically I don’t think anybody should have to work to decipher your symbolism for the identity to work.
Let’s say I aimed for a simple, good looking card, and it gets passed around. That’s what a good card does.
Even though now it takes six or seven lines just to tell somebody how to get in touch with you. Remember when it was an address and a phone number? Eeek. Staying simple now is not so simple.
(You know how to get in touch!)
Regards,
Kelly