Do people still hand out physical business cards at events or is it all digital now?

i should have asked before ordering 50, lol

EDIT:

Thank you for all the replies, I’ve got the answer I need but I’ll add some more information just in case anyone wants to know.

  • I’m based in Europe and not Japan
  • I’m working as a videographer and trying to build a film company
  • I plan on doing more event coverage so I’ll bring them with to quickly hand out my contact details.
  • The card has the following: Busines name, my name, phone number, email, and website.
  • I had thought about adding my social media but couldn’t find a nice way to do it that matched the rest of the card.

EDIT 2: just now realised I didn’t complete the last sentence of the last bullet point

  • Skanky@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 months ago

    Our company recently switched from paper to digital (popl).

    It’s incredibly clunky and frustrating having to explain to literally every new contact that we don’t have cards and they have to use their phone to share info.

    So, yes. Please keep paper cards a thing

  • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
    1·
    5 months ago

    I handed out 4 just yesterday. I guess it depends on the kind of work you’re doing. I’m a home improvement contractor and people often ask if they can give my number to their friend/neighbour etc. so I just hand them few business cards to spread around.

  • kandoh@reddthat.com
    1·
    5 months ago

    Yes, giving someone a disposable card is still better than the awkwardness of tapping phones or whatever nonsense they do now.

  • Monument@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    I don’t need business cards, but I want to get some nice ones with just my name that I can write the information I want people to have.
    I guess it’s more of a calling card, really.

  • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    5 months ago

    Sure, if you deal with customer

    It’s still a nice way to get someone coordinates, like who is the sales person, or the tech support tech, or the researcher.

    If you go to conference/trade fairs people willstill exchange cards.

  • Thavron@lemmy.ca
    0·
    5 months ago

    At my job we recently got 15 plastic cards with an NFC chip. Scan the card and you go to a page where you can add the info to your contacts. There’s a qr code for when NFC is disabled and too complex to turn on for some people (i.e. CEO’s and the like).

    This being Lemmy, this’ll probably get comments like “never scan an unknown NFC tag blah blah blah”

    • mvmike@lemmy.ml
      0·
      5 months ago

      Why is NFC needed in this case? Regardless of this being a potential security risk (which it is, but it’s not my point here), does it provide any additional value over a QR scan, which can easily store a URL or a contact information?

      • Thavron@lemmy.ca
        0·
        5 months ago

        Not needed, but convenient. NFC is enabled by default on most phones so all they have to do is touch the card.

          • Thavron@lemmy.ca
            1·
            5 months ago

            NFC: hold to card, done. Qr: unlock phone, open camera, scan, confirm opening link.

            Granted, it’s 4 seconds vs 0,5 second but still.

      • Thavron@lemmy.ca
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        5 months ago

        Yeah but it’s not random. It’s a business card. Surely some trust in other people can be possible.

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          If you’re in a vaguely sensitive industry, there’s going to be a few people seeing what they can get into at those conferences.

          This is especially true of things like cyber security conferences, or tech. They’ll be crawling with corporate spies.

          Actually, I’d say any major trade or industry conference is going to have corporate spies and more… eh, freelance trying to see what they can get into.

          So the question becomes: have you/your company run a background check on that guy? No? Then why the hell do you trust him?

  • MudMan@fedia.io
    0·
    5 months ago

    For a while I stopped bringing cards to situations where a card would be a thing and instead I put a QR code on a widget on my phone’s lock screen and told people to just scan that to add my contact info.

    Results were… mixed? For a few people it was a cool conversation starter. Others fumbled a bit with what to do.

    One guy, though? He was NOT amused. Apparently he made a big point of collecting all of his connections’ cards in binders, and cataloguing them, both as bragging rights and a hobby. I may as well have walked into his house and peed on his stamp collection. It was very awkward.