I've been wondering if I should make some new business cards but there are so many possibilities.

1) What job title? Standard titles such as 'developer' or 'designer' may be too restrictive for the likes of us. If you've got a startup should you be CEO, Founder, Director etc? If you freelance or do a variety of jobs what do you put?

2) What contact information? Which contact information do you give? URL, email, mobile number, etc?

3) Design Are Moo cards acceptable? Can you print your own or should you go for high end thick card with spot gloss finish? Should you put a custom design on the back or leave it blank?

Heres some interesting ideas I've seen on cards recently: Tag cloud and blank fields. Put a tag cloud of all your abilities on the back of the card such as "ruby on rails" or "entrepeneur" and circle the relevant ones when you give your card away. Another card I've seen has blank fields eg "You met Dan W at ______ and talked about _____. You though he was ____" that can be filled in when handing it over.

So what are your business cards like? Do you even need any?

Founder is not a bad title or go with CEO if you like. Or "creator". That would be a good one, "God, creator" :P

I like that blank field idea, that's really neat and organized.

Don't print out your own. You have to go for high end/"real" business cards. Someone in one of my college classes handed me his business card and it was printed on regular paper. Right away I thought he wasn't very professional.

Go for "I'm CEO... bitch" - at least that's Mark Zuckerberg has on his cards :)

In all fairness, when I asked Mark about this he said it was just a joke gone bad...

The facebook business cards are slick. They look like mini facebook profile and even have "I'll find something to put here" at the bottom.

Best job title I've seen was "CEO & Janitor" on a card of a single founder.

I just submitted my favorite web site on business cards here: https://qht.co/comments?id=14756

It's more an art project, though.

I felt they deserved their own submission - actually the studies are quite old, I think, but your post made me search and find them again.

It seems like business cards are becoming an outdated technology - one that was more relevant before the web.

My next batch of cards are just going to have my name and the company name on them.

Anything else can be found on google :)

Great success with plain old cards from vistaprint.com. Use a simple design with easy to read type. Do you already have a company name? Put that on there, your name, phone, email, only put a web address if it's something potential contacts need to see like your company website not a personal blog. Doesn't something generic like "web developer" work along with a list of your language skills if you are freelancer?

Quite honestly, I don't care what people's biz cards look like. All I care about is the information on them. I transfer that into into Address Book and throw away/lose the card.

Worry more about the impression you leave when you meet those people and less about superficial stuff like biz card stock and font.

I settle for nothing but the best. Metal business cards, about $5 each. I like to make an impression.

http://www.luckow.com/clients/woz/colbert.html

Nice. Apparently Woz has been using these for years.

I'd kill to actually have those business cards. It'll be a while. But I can dream, right?

I only give them to hot chicks