Have a business card

“While I do communicate with new people mostly online, more and more I’m meeting people who aren’t online as often as I am, and as such, don’t communicate beyond the occasional email. [...] The difference between a freelancer and a business owner is a business card. I sometimes caught a vibe from people that I didn’t own a real business, since I didn’t have a card. A card is always working for you. [...] There was always some little element — company name, logo, even the color — nagging the back of my brain, reminding me who they were.”

“As a travel blogger and someone who travels quite a lot, I get to meet lots of new people while on the road. Although talking about my blog isn’t my conversation starter, 9 times out of 10 people end up asking what I do for a living and mentioning that I have a blog is something I can’t avoid. That often leads to people asking if they can check it out and see what I’ve written. While spelling my URL isn’t a hard task, handing a business card with it written on it helps a lot.”