{"id":2547,"date":"2010-11-08T22:34:03","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T08:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=2547"},"modified":"2010-11-08T22:35:22","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T08:35:22","slug":"creative-business-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/creative-business-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Business Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webdesignerwall.com\/trends\/80-creative-unique-business-cards\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2548\" title=\"55\" src=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/55.jpg\" alt=\"Business Card\" width=\"493\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/55.jpg 493w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/55-300x107.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve heard it said that business cards are on their way out&#8230;soon to be (or already) replaced by the digital age. I suppose these folks bump iPhone contacts regularly? These folks clearly have not spent a day in the shoes of a marketing or sales person who has to attend an evening at a networking function.<\/p>\n<p>But even if this were so, I think it would be a shame to lose this little element of business marketing. When you get a card from someone you&#8217;ve just met, it&#8217;s like a little first-taste of what&#8217;s to come.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/lowestudiocard-4.jpg\">My own cards<\/a> has worked out pretty well for me&#8230;it&#8217;s an instant conversation starter. The minute I hand the card to someone at a table, it&#8217;s likely that everyone else on that same table will ask to receive one. Of course that can get kind of pricey&#8230;.my cards didn&#8217;t come cheap. But I figure even if I picked up just ONE project as a result of the card, it would have paid for the whole box full of them.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this great collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webdesignerwall.com\/trends\/80-creative-unique-business-cards\/\" target=\"_blank\">wonderful business card ideas<\/a>. Some of these ideas made my card seem boring in comparison. *boo hoo* (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webdesignerwall.com\/trends\/80-creative-unique-business-cards\/\" target=\"_blank\">WebDesignerWall<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard it said that business cards are on their way out&#8230;soon to be (or already) replaced by the digital age. I suppose these folks bump iPhone contacts regularly? These folks clearly have not spent a day in the shoes of a marketing or sales person who has to attend an evening at a networking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-2547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business-cards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2547"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2552,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions\/2552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}