Business cards for book publishers
Thursday, May 14, 2009 21:36Posted in category marketing
I can’t but feel smug about one comment that I wrote on Melody’s website. She wrote about how to use Feng Shui in business card design and also how to use it in life design. I am not as educated in Feng Shui as she is, so my comment took far simpler approach - I wrote a list of ten tips OR I tried, but came one short. Can you help us? Please go and check the post and complete the list t
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Melody says:
May 15th, 2009 at 3:23 am
Your ideas were genius, you leave me wondering why you’re not in a more artistic field..although, what do you do? lol..I know you’re in sales but I think the post about your trainee through me off..
By the way, I’m working on an ebook idea so unconventional (in writing style) I don’t even want to mention it–but when it’s finished I’d love it if you were to give it a “looksee” and tell me what u think..What do you say?
Jake Stone says:
May 15th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Sales is poetry and martial arts mixed in such a fascinating way that one can’t but dive as deep as your lungs can take you. Previous sentence should tell you that sales can’t exist in vacuum we need the rest of the organization as much as they need sales.
About the trainee, I’m in situation where I could take an old case and ask him to make his interpretation (boring homework-resembling stuff) alternatively I can present a real case where he’ll see and learn how customer interaction affects to the design and often results into more expensive than necessary house. I believe that by investing some time to really train and guide him he’ll be better able to work with me and a customer.
Sure I’ll read your book. I’ve been thinking to write a book that follows Twitter format myself. I’m pretty sure I’ll never be able to roll it out.
Alex at Net-Entrepreneur.com says:
May 17th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
eeehm. Funny coincidence, I’m designing a business card for myself right now - thought of checking what’s new in my reader to clear my brain.
ha! can’t be more cool than that…
Your ideas on Melody’s blog are very good. I”m going for the avant-garde myself,
Can send you a copy later for critique, if you want.
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Jake Stone says:
May 17th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
Ha haa, Alex, that was a good one. I seriously recommend you to shun away from any cubism influenced with business cards
Those bloody pieces of paper are already so easy to be misplaced and forgotten. Imagine the situation where you are remembered, but not understood. 
Avant-garde is a very good method while transferring emotions and feelings, but I don’t think that it will work too well with exact information.
I myself use very conservative business card. It does have one feature designed to help making that vital connection - on the background I have very faint photo of a house that we have delivered. Nothing remarkable in it… Oh, now you got me thinking to change my cards.
I would be very interested to see your business card - current of future, doesn’t matter.
Alex at Net-Entrepreneur.com says:
May 17th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
I was in a corporate cubicle for too long. now it’s time to go wild. I don’t care if someone would misunderstand my business card, It’s just a carrier of my contact info.
In order to make them remember me I’m trying to paint out of the lines.
I’m sending you a draft of my card. I saw the the basic design somewhere on the net and building on that.
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Jake Stone says:
May 18th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Thanks for the mail, got it. Even your sketch looks nice enough. I can’t wait to see how the final version will turn out like. I especially like the way how it sports as an ad hoc name tag in casual networking occasions. Nobody will miss Alex at those gatherings.
I was referring to so totally avant-garded business card that one can’t really decipher any valid information. Your version is very readable.
Alex at Net-Entrepreneur.com says:
May 19th, 2009 at 11:40 am
free classified ads says:
May 19th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
I don’t believe in feng shui…..
Jake Stone says:
May 19th, 2009 at 8:28 pm
From salesperson point of view it doesn’t matter what we believe it matters what prospects believe in. When you know their preference you can adapt and make your offer accordingly.
Let me guess, you believe in directories with no links?