UPDATE (02/09/2012): We’re extending the signup deadline by popular request. Lots of people are sesigning & ordering new business cards for the exchange. What a great idea! For now, it looks like we’ll start collecting cards from everyone in April. A hard deadline will be set soon. Check back for more updates.
What’s a Business Card Exchange?
Back in 2010, around this time of the year actually, I participated in a really cool event called a “Business Card Exchange”. It was hosted by one of my designer friends, Meredith Marsh, and I have wanted to host my own exchange ever since.
Well, as you might imagine, it is an organized exchange of business cards. One person decides to host the exchange and then a number of individuals all send a predetermined quantity of their own business cards into the host. Once all of the participants have mailed their cards in, the host then divides all of the cards into evenly divided stacks of cards. Each stack of cards consists of one copy of every card that was sent in. So, if 30 people participate, all 30 people get 30 unique cards in the mail! Fun, eh?
