I’m still a believer in paper business cards and love the card David Airey designed for me.
But I don’t have only a paper card anymore. I have an online version I can embed on social media “about me” pages and a version I can beam from my iPhone to another mobile phone.
You can, too, and most of the methods require zero geekdom. Here’s a run-down of free and low-fee approaches that’ll have you up and running in no time.
Top options
- Text your business card from your mobile phone. Services like DUB make it pretty easy.
- Create your business card as a stand-alone web page you own. The Digital Business Card for WordPress works well, particularly if you already know how to use WordPress.
- Create an online card hosted by a service, such as card.ly (click here for a demo of my card.ly card) or BusinessCard2
- For Twitter fans, you can Tweet your business card with twtBizCard.
- For iPhone enthusiasts there’s an ever-growing list of options for sending your card over the airwaves. Two that get good reviews are SnapDat, which sends an image of your business card, and the straightforward beamMe.
Sources and resources
- Eight digital alternatives to paper business cards
- 8 fantastic free business card apps for the iPhone
- Creative business card ideas for mediators
- 584 business card ideas
- The secret of successful business card exchanges
Making Mediation Your Day Job by Tammy Lenski is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Based on a work at MakingMediationYourDayJob.Lenski.com.
