Allen’s New Business Card Design

Posted by on Aug 9, 2010 in business, marketing | 4 comments

And part of selling is having a cool business card (IMHO).  I’m about to buy a new set of business cards.  I want something non-corporate, highly memorable, and frankly, dripping with attitude.  Oh yes, and of a high quality too i.e. without guillotined edges or graphics that you could print out on your own PC. Therefore I’m going with the Gaping Void Streetcards.  Here are the...

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No Tyre Kickers!

Posted by on Oct 16, 2009 in business, customer service, personal development, training | 2 comments

Science wasn’t my best subject.  So, maybe that’s why one of Hugh MacLeod’s (my hero) cartoons on the back of business cards really encapsulates how I feel about twice every week.  And, boy was this week one of them. As an employee, I got sick of incompetence.  I got sick of placing myself in departments and organisations where competency was a hazy illusion.  Training is...

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To Blog or Not to Blog

Posted by on Sep 29, 2007 in communication, social media | 0 comments

No, I’m not quoting an old master… I’m talking about blogging. What is it? Do you do it? Do you know anyone who does it? Do you know other companies who do it? We started, largely inspired by the enthusiastic bloggers out there: B.L. Ochman, Hugh MacLeod (one of whose ‘cartoons drawn on the back of business cards’ appears above) and Tom Peters. We wanted a more...

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