VintageGent’s Menswear Daily

Label Me

I have been thinking about promoting this site in my “real life.”  Up until now, I have relied on traffic from friends, organic searches about specific clothing items or stories, and just sheer luck.   I have hesitated to print up business cards with my site and contact information on it, as I would prefer people to contact me through the site rather than just ring me for a long distance tete-a-tete.

Making just a business card with a website on it would not be poor etiquette.  However, cards with no other information on it but a url can sometimes be construed as impersonal junkmail. More so, I tend to forget the name of the person who gave it to me as often it would just be tossed in a bag rather than handed to me personally.

The last time I toddled over to Vista Print, it was the equivolant to being beaned with an apple on the noggin. What if I just made up a label style, and affixed it to the back of my regular business cards when I met someone I thought would enjoy vintage-ing it up? This way, I am not committing the faux pas of pressing palms with someone, only for them to quickly forget me or what I was talking about.

Of course, the tactile experience of a business card with a label on the back may give it a more slickery feeling.  Thus, the finger would naturally stop over it while fishing around in a wallet and pull it out.  ”A Ha!  I need to read more at VintageGent’s Menswear Daily,” they who rustle through wallets may say.   Or maybe not.