Out with the old, in with the new.
This is my new business card. Built with retaggr.
I offer this as Exhibit A in the case for how important, and, in some cases, how easy it is to re-brand yourself — one touchpoint at a time.
Brokers, I think it’s important to introduce this to your agents and explain how those elements they place on their current card — fax number, street address, designations — are quickly becoming, or have already become, obsolete. Retaggr offers them a way to replace those things that brand them as old, and very much like everyone else, with a new identity defined by their social profiles, widgets, and myriad of contact options.
These cards can be embedded on blogs, websites, or used as an email signature. I would even print them for use as an offline business card. I believe that a string of highly recognizable icons like MySpace LastFM, Gtalk, etc., will say more about who agents are as individuals then the string of letters that make up designations that no one understands or arguably even cares about.
And if those icons are not recognizable, at the very least they make for a conversation that most will find more interesting than a 3-hour course taken 10 years ago.
It’s simple.
It’s free.
And it’s a neat little way to connect with an entirely new generation of buyers and sellers who might be drawn to you by something as simple as your LastFM playlist.
- Davison
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Marc,
Great post and thanks for the link! I'm going to check it out for a new signature line in my emails (and any other place that looks like it makes sense) Keep up the great work! You are right, you never know where you may connect with someone new.
Dale
great find and right on w/everything you said.
Thanks,
Jason
In a nutshell guys, this allows you to do what it is you really have always wanted too – present that human side of yourself. This allows you to do it with cool.
Very nice. There is even a plugin available for WordPress blogs that will automatically display an icon to show a commenters retaggr "card".
I just installed it on my blog.
Quite cool.
Thanks for posting this, Marc! I actually found it on Jay Thompson's blog because I read his post before yours, but I wanted to give you props as well. This is very cool thing and I have created my own Retaggr card and am also using it as an email signature. It works great! Thanks again!
really cool and useful business card. thanks for sharing!