Why should a Blogger carry a Business Card?

Brian Yerkes Owner/Creative Direc­tor of Brian Joseph Stu­dios and author of www.​bri​any​erkes.com is cre­at­ing a gallery post enti­tled “Busi­ness cards of Blog­gers“. I for one am a huge fan of busi­ness card design and could spend hours rum­mag­ing through the var­i­ous gal­leries pre­sented online so I thought that I would throw mine into the mix for a change. I am not a “professional” blog­ger so to speak, but with my var­i­ous cre­ative and entre­pre­neur­ial out­lets I do find the time to main­tain sev­eral blogs includ­ing this one on Papertree Design and I do happen to have a few busi­ness cards of my own.

The title and con­cept of Brians post is one that I have been putting a lot of thought into over the past few weeks. For one, I recently joined a busi­ness net­work­ing group which I believe rekin­dled my inter­est in the power of the busi­ness card. As I ven­ture of on my own into the world of free­lanc­ing and entre­pre­neur­ship once again my need for an effec­tive busi­ness card has increased ten fold. Sec­ondly I have also been toying with the idea of cre­at­ing a busi­ness card for my brother who I would con­sider a semi- pro­fes­sional blog­ger. I say “semi” not because of he lacks any type of pro­fes­sion­al­ism but because he is still in the middle stages where blog­ging is not yet pro­vid­ing a full time income. He is actu­ally a very inter­est­ing guy with some great ideas and a plethora of knowl­edge when it comes to the inter­net and devel­op­ment, which is why I think he might ben­e­fit from a well designed busi­ness card. Trav­el­ing often he meets some very inter­est­ing people who may ben­e­fit from his skills and what better way to quickly plant the seed then to offer up a great look­ing busi­ness card.

So there I hope to have added my card to the library and I give kudos to Brian for cre­at­ing what could become a very visu­ally excit­ing library of busi­ness card design. Excel­lent idea and I think that it cre­ates a good bit of evi­dence as to why a blog­ger should carry a busi­ness card.