The other day when I had a gathering with Rachel and friends, everyone started handing out namecards. Nicole gave me her name card as well. I thought it was a namecard from her company but it wasn’t. It’s a namecard she printed herself, with her blog address, contact number and E-Mail address.

Nicole’s Card

I wanted to do something like this long time ago but I have no idea what to put on the name card, other than the usual “Name”, “Contacts” and stuff. I didn’t have a company name to put, I don’t have a position I could put on the name card.

Some of you might not believe this, but when I was working, I was never given a name card. Every time my suppliers asked for a name card, or my company’s address/phone/fax numbers, I would either write it down on a piece of recycled paper, or write it down on my suppliers’ notebooks, or get my company’s letterhead, cut out the bottom part where the company’s details are there.

I remebered there was this one time, my boss asked me to attend this event where there were lucky draws and stuff. I need to throw my name card into the box. I took a few of my boss’ name cards, use a marker pen to strike his name off and write my name there. When I was registering for the event at the front door, the lady looked at my name card and then looked at me as if I was some sort of event crashing guy. I wasn’t surprised at her reaction, I would do the same thing either.

To me, a name card is something like a first impression to people. The design of your name card, your position, the company you work for, your phone and contact number and other stuff. I don’t know about others but I analyze a person’s name card and I can tell a lot about the person.

For example, your E-Mail address. If a person from this average-mid company gives me his name card, but is using a Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail E-Mail address, something must be wrong somewhere. It’s either the company doesn’t have a domain name in this information technology age or the company is not professional enough to register a domain name. If the design of the name card is just ordinary, it either means the company is cutting cost, or it simply means the design sucks. You’d be surprise to find a whole lot of information just from a name card.

I would really like to have a name card of my own. I know it’s not too expensive to print a box or two, it’s the design of the name card and the stuff that I am going to put in to the name card. I don’t know how to start. Nicole is a girl, she could afford to put stuff like flower-ish pattern thingy, I can’t. She is a travel blogger and her real profession is a writer, I am nothing.

The cards that I have in my wallet are:

My MyKad and my Driving License

Some Loyalty Cards

Bank Cards

Credit Cards

Last but not least, recently I’ve been visiting the doctors and medical centers more often than visiting my grandmother, so I’ve got a lot of appointment cards in my wallet.

Appointment Cards

These cards are not for distributing because they do not contain my phone number and they are my personal stuff!

Anyway, I really wish that some day, I could have my own name card, with a proper design that shows my profesionalism.

YEAH RIGHT!