daily bizcard: brian clark

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Dale

14 years ago

Hugh, you smart cookie you… how funky and what a fun way to see how you relate to your community… 10/10.

Brian Clark

14 years ago

Ah, my ideal business card. Thanks Hugh, you read my mind (or heard me beg) 😉

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Hugh MacLeod

14 years ago

No worries, Brian. Most of the ideas I have these days I got from stealing from you, anyway 😉

Randy Bosch

14 years ago

Very cool, Hugh. Copyblogger is a great site and Brian must be a great person to know!

Theresa Resek

14 years ago

As an editor friend once taught me, it’s not “stealing”, it’s “repurposing”.

You don’t need permission

14 years ago

[…] is part of a new series he is doing called The Daily Bizcard. Yesterday’s was a classic gem, dedicated to the marketing wizard Brian Clark of […]

Shripriya

14 years ago

I wish there was a version that replaced “entrepreneur” with “filmmaker”.

I think I said this somewhere else on your blog ages ago, but I think there’s a business in allowing your customers to customize your cartoons within certain bounds – like the example above. If I could, I would order those business cards and you’d have a sale 🙂

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Hugh MacLeod

14 years ago

Reply to Shripriya

Shripriya, one thing you learn in my game, is to completely ignore “If only you’d do this, I’d buy it” blog comments. Mist of the time that turns out to be untrue. Talk is cheap etc.

Also, the trouble with making every thing more customizable, is that you make it less personal, which has its own negative effects to deal with.

Shripriya

14 years ago

Reply to Hugh MacLeod

Hugh – I’ve actually bought two of your larger limited prints including the first one you ever offered to your newsletter readers. So… at least for me, I mean it.

I agree, that everything can’t be customizable… but I think something like this which resonates with many people is appropriate. You pick 5 other creative things (say – filmmaker, musician, etc.) and you let people choose to replace that with entrepreneur.

And here you – if you do make a filmmaker version, I’ll definitely make it my business card and post back a link to a photo of me holding one 🙂

Matches Malone

14 years ago

So, I guess my new goal is to become one of your favorite people, as that would be a cool thing to have….

Well, actually, it’s always been a goal, however, now I can achieve a quantifiable result 🙂

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Hugh MacLeod

14 years ago

Reply to Matches Malone

Matches, yeah, my list of “favorite people” is already pretty long…
hundreds of them.

It’ll take me at least a year to even get partially down the list. And doubtless some of the utopian-idiot crowd will bitch and moan…

But I like having the long-term focus this project will require.

Kennedy Pittman

14 years ago

Amazing idea. Smart, creative, and fun! Plus – you seem to have a quality list of “favorite people” so I can’t wait to see who else is gets a card. Way to find a niche.

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Hugh MacLeod

14 years ago

Reply to Kennedy Pittman

Everybody has a list of “favorite people”, offline and on.

My online one has been growing and evolving for a decade, now. It’s actually pretty long. MANY years worth of cartoons 😉

Thanks, Kennedy 🙂

Matt

14 years ago

Hugh- I read your comments to Shripriya, and I understand about not being interested in customizing/taking requests from random posters, but is there any chance you could add this card as-is to the Streetcards options?

I know it isn’t likely you’ll say yes, but I figured: nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Thanks, Matt

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