Twelve great ways to use a business card

This low cost and often overlooked item can pay dividends with a little effort.


1. Include them in the envelope with your bill payments.

2. Use "reply paid" envelopes from advertisers to post
them your card.

3. Tape your card to videos when you return the videos
to your video store.

4. Give them away to people at meetings or network
discussions.

5. Drop them into "win a free lunch" jars at cafes
and restaurants.

6. Place them on community notice boards.

7. Tape your business card to "free mail" and "reply
paid" postcards.

8. Run a free community workshop on your hobby and
give out your cards as a contact source.

9. Give them to your friends and family.

10. Send a letter to everyone in the phone book
with the same last name as yourself and enclose
your card (you could seek information about your
"family tree" in the letter).

11. Leave them in appropriate places in your local
shopping mall or hotel foyer.

12. Leave them with your tip when you pay your
account at a restaurant or hotel.