Comments on: Death Of The Business Card

By: Luke Grange

Luke Grange — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:47:32 +0000

You have gotta love this I’m now using Evernote on my iPhone to take a snap shot of the business cards I feel are worth while. It reads the text in the photo and indexes it. You can search a name and it will find the photo of the business card. Roll on technology!

By: Luke Grange

Luke Grange — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:21:20 +0000

I was using Infra red technology to transmit my business card to other PDA devices all of 11 years ago. It all boils down to convenience! If it only takes 15 seconds to bump compared to finding the business card in your purse or wallet then typing the e-mail address, the writing is on the wall. I will also add that the only thing strewn around my desk are business cards the rest of it looks rather neat and tidy.

Your right though John, business cards won’t disappear for a long while given cultural and social constraints. More so than the Generation adoption argument I would say is that Regional Australia is still constrained with slow internet and a lack of 3G which holds a lot of this back.

By: John Harmer

John Harmer — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:48:19 +0000

I think it will take a while to get rid of business cards.

Gen Y\’s may embrace all things techie but not so the Gen X\’s and particularly the Baby Boomers. There are still plenty of both these groups who are in business and use business cards to provide contact details. Some folks even like to look at something real and not just stare at a mini computer screen.

Oh, and let’s not forget that Australia leads the way in mobile phone use with a massive 30% of people carrying one. The other countries (specifically including the US) lag well behind in numbers carrying a mobile phone to bump with.

So what will the remaining 70% of Australians bump? Or the multitude of non mobile phone carriers in other countries?

As I said, it will take a while.