{"id":7823,"date":"2016-09-13T12:40:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T12:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designmantic.com\/blog\/?p=7823"},"modified":"2023-12-08T10:11:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T10:11:44","slug":"business-cards-are-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designmantic.com\/blog\/business-cards-are-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Think Business Cards Are Dead? Think Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lego employees carry adorable mini-figures crafted in their image to pass around to their contacts in place of more traditional business cards. Some landscape gardeners have produced cards on which you can grow your own watercress, divorce lawyers have improvised with counterparts that tear down the middle, and other businesses are also learning how to play their business cards wisely<\/a><\/strong>. However, despite being anchored by a history stretching back over 500 years- having its roots in China before being accepted by the European aristocrats in the 17th century to mark their visits- some people now tout the demise of business cards, with younger and tech-savvy employees preferring to exchange Twitter handles or connect on LinkedIn. According to them, business cards are the last vestiges of the former epoch of print and paper.<\/p>\n

\n DESIGN YOUR BUSINESS CARDS<\/a><\/div>\n

Those people couldn\u2019t have been more wrong!<\/p>\n

Contrary to popular belief, a survey of over 1000 businesses, conducted by the global crowdsourcing marketplace, DesignCrowd, reveals that the dawn of business card is far from waning. In fact, the meek business card is taking on a new lease of life; embracing new technologies, evolving in style and design, and catering to the needs of the wave of entrepreneurs and start-ups flooding the market place. The study revealed that more than 84% people still hand out business cards when they come across new contacts, while those on the receiving end also find it useful, with more than 65% either placing the card in a rolodex or entering the details into their smartphone immediately!<\/p>\n

\"why<\/a><\/p>\n

In another survey studying small business owners and main target owners, business cards are considered a \u2018very impactful\u2019 element of networking by one-third of SBOs and about one-fourth of Main Target. In fact, small business owners are twice more likely than Main Target owners to credit \u2018most of new business\u2019 to networking. SBOs also hand out more business cards at more locations and more frequently than Main Target. These groups were found to be considerably more prone than their \u2018less impactful\u2019 counterparts to credit business cards with:<\/p>\n