10 excuses to use when you don’t have a business card handy
December 4th, 2007 Jason Posted in conferences, pubcon | No Comments »
Day one at PubCon and I’m already feeling the full weight of not having cards ready before the trip. Sure, I can blame work for being slow about getting them processed – I’m sure they’ll be sitting on my desk when I get back – but it’s my bad for not having something to pass around, and it means the onus is fully on me to keep up with people I meet here.
Meanwhile, I’ve been practicing various reasons for not having one available:
- “Dang, I just dropped my last one in the box for the iPhone drawing.”
- “They’re in my luggage, which ended up in Las Vegas, New Mexico instead.”
- “The English don’t really do business cards; should we grab a pint?”
- “I think the TSA confiscated them, because I know I packed them.”
- “Dang, I just gave my last one to Matt Cutts/Michael Gray/Rand Fishkin.”
- “Can you believe it, I lost them all at the poker table last night.”
- “Y’know, I just got new ones, and they botched the contact info, so they’re really no good at all.”
- “Cards are so 20th century; would you like a DNA sample? I have a swab right here.”
- “I can bluetooth you a vcard, will that work?”
- “I just gave my entire box to Justine.”
Come to think of it, the bluetooth thing isn’t a bad idea…
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