Personal Business Card
I recently ordered a new set of personal business cards from VistaPrint using their online design service:
One thing you cannot easily tell from the image above is that the horizontal red line underneath my name is done in red foil on the physical card. The foil effect looks really – really – cool. (And, through the transitive property of equality, makes the cardholder look cool.)
My primary reason for having a personal card is that when I am out at events, I am representing myself, not my employer. I want to promote the Shad Aumann brand: blogger, IT leader, MBA guy, social networking guy, photographer guy, skier guy, golfer guy, public speaker. Maybe I just should have put all that on the card!
Posted on June 2, 2009 at 3:53 pm by Shad Aumann · Permalink
In: Articles · Tagged with: business card, personal branding, personal business card, personal business card design
In: Articles · Tagged with: business card, personal branding, personal business card, personal business card design
Shad finds high-value intersections between business strategy and information technology. He currently resides in the Madison, WI area.
on June 3, 2009 at 11:03 am
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Good idea, personal brand is very important, and like how you have shadit.com/info redirected to your linked profile. Looking forward to seeing how the foil turns out.
on October 28, 2010 at 7:07 pm
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Thanks for your feedback, Farhan! I actually worked hard on keeping the text part very succinct, and implementing the re-direct was part of that decision. My original idea was that I could choose to change the re-direct much more easily than printing new cards, but in practice it has not changed. :-)