USB Business Card is Just so Practical

Why carry around business cards that are portable and cheap when you can carry something around that's much bulkier and more expensive? That's what you'll do if you go with SolidAlliance's brilliant idea of printing your business card on a USB thumb drive. Sure, you won't be able to carry around more than a couple, and you'll offend people by deeming them uncardworthy, but I'm pretty sure your current business card can't be loaded up with photos of your giving the camera a thumbs-up or double shooter in various poses. –Adam Frucci

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11:45 AM on Tue May 8 2007
By Adam Frucci
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SBGUY27 at 10:58 AM on 05/08/07
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haha this is a cool idea but make sure you don;t give your USB business card that has horse porn on it because then you just look foolish.
dambo29 at 10:58 AM on 05/08/07
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a little impratical to carry a bunch of these around no?
Emor8t at 11:26 AM on 05/08/07
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What it does do, however, is give a reason for potential clients a reason to hold on to your card. It also makes your card stand out much more than that other guy.

Personally, if I was trying to get a contract that I knew was up for grabs, it certain situations I might be interested in using this.
jackfrost132 at 11:42 AM on 05/08/07
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Yeah, if these came loaded with various price lists and a company profile and whatever else you would want to stick on it to show potential clients it would be more than worth it, who would you rather hire? The guy who gave you a crappy piece of paper or the guy who gave you a usb thumb drive with your complete company history/prices/policies/services/upskirt shots of the secretary on it?
Boognish at 12:09 PM on 05/08/07
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I used business card shaped mini CD's one time when I was on the job hunt. I stored my resume in PDF and a quick intro to myself, like a CV. I had my friend put a flash wrapper around it to auto run and gave the user the abilty to select the video or PDF.
Overall I find networking with people works much better than gimmicks but it gave me great leads. I did this back in '04
Mr. Black at 12:10 PM on 05/08/07
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I've always liked this idea...especially for say, a photographer, who can load up a flash driven portfolio.
SBGUY27 at 12:21 PM on 05/08/07
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@ Mr. Black:

i can see this happening with Porn starts where they can give previews of there abilities on vidios and screen shots of you know like the money shot. so i think this would be a great idead for that industry.
noneother at 02:47 PM on 05/08/07
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silly me, i thought i would see something that looked like a business card, haha. otherwise, even if these were cheap, how could you have more than a handful in your pockets at a time? the bulge supports the porn industry applications, but otherwise i can't see these being extremely practical just yet.
Moof at 03:16 PM on 05/08/07
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I see things like these as great sales tools, I've been hoping they'll come down in price enough to really make it worth it. Just being able to put on a few megs worth of files onto a disk and hand it to the customer with all your contact details on the front cover would be pretty great. Especially if you add VCard and URL links and the like.

That being said, the form factor is not at all good. The one that I've got my sights set on can be found at: http://www.walletex.com/gp.asp?gpid=2 - which looks reasonably portable, and something you can just whip out of a wallet.

The price is still way too high though. I'm more lookign for something sub $1. Or even sub-50 cents to make it worthwhile.