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Four For Friday For Entrepreneurs - Do you still use traditional business cards? Q1 - Business cards: While exchanging business cards remains fairly common, more professionals it seems are also opting for Web-based card exchange services and digital business cards. Companies like BusinessCard2, DubMeNow, CloudContacts, TwtBizCard, Bump, BeamMe, SnapDat, Retaggr, and Poken all offer digital business card options. Do you still use the traditional business card or have you transitioned some or all of your company's card exchanges to the digital format?Q2 - Reputation: Do you actively monitor your company's reputation online? If so, what tools do you use to stay on top of what customers and others are saying about you and your business? Q3 - Product Placement: Ask any business owner if they'd like their product or service featured on Oprah, and they're likely to say YES! Aside from Oprah, where's the best place for your products or services to be featured from a product placement perspective? Q4 - Challenge: What's the most challenging aspect of your job?
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I don't think that digital business cards will replace print cards. I think they can only add value when used simultaneously.
Samantha
http://www.WinaFreeCustomWebsite.com
Owning and starting a business is one of the hardest things to do in life. You must first be able to have sufficient funds to run the business, have the time, and the ability to manage the stress. If you can manage all of these things plus the dilemma of making decisions for the better of the business you can run a successful business. Its like they say the hardest thing is finding the customers and how to attract them but when you do that you can have it made. Traditional business cards however allow people to pass them around when talking about your business so you silly not to keep them
I think digital business cards are great, especially the new .tel technology. With .tel, you get an online business card under your own domain name. That appears more professional to me.
You can see the benefits of it with these videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKoLO_mKSlI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYGgGvo4KoE
I would love for you to blog about how we can take advantage of this new tool to grow our business. I haven't read any business bloggers writing about it yet since it's fairly new.
1. Of course I use BusinessCard2, you can see my card at http://lieflarson.businesscard2.com. But, I also use a print business card. I don't know if I see printed cards every going away, but now there are other options as well.
2. Yes, our company monitors our reputation. We use a lot of tools. One I highly recommend is spy.appspot.com.
3. From a product placement perspective, I used to think The Big Idea! on CNBC was pretty cool.
4. The most challenging aspect of my job is making sure our entire team has all the right tools to help them be better at what they do. Managing resources is always a challenge, but in this economy I'd say harder than ever (or at least in the last 60+ years).