The other day I replied to a forum thread at the Copywriters Board about networking at seminars. Now most people tend to hand out business cards and do the usual chit chatting here and there. However, I go about the whole ordeal a bit different.

I don’t do cards! That’s right. You couldn’t get a business card from me if you tried. I may write my cell number on a napkin for you, or autograph your Pee-Chee (remember them days?), but I just don’t do cards.

In the thread I wrote…

” If they want to hire me, they will find a way to get in touch.

For some reason, this makes people want your number even more. While everyone and their mother is trying hard to network and pick up gigs, I’m too busy schmoozing at the bar and making genuine friends.

I could care less about getting or giving away a card. I’m trying to make a powerful impact that no card could ever do. I’m building real world relationships that makes the card pretty much irrelevant.

And I’ll tell you the secret…

It’s all done with great story telling. If you can get 10 guys in a circle and have them all intensely listening to your story, you don’t need cards. People remember enthusiastic and outgoing people that make them smile.

I’m not saying business cards don’t work for some, cuz they do. However, you should see people’s faces when I say that I’m strongly against giving out business cards. At first they think it’s weird, but after they hear my explanation they usually want my contact info even more then before.”

So anyways, after i left that response, the resident direct response master… Mr. Subtle decided to craft me up a business card. Here it is…

What chu think?