How to make your existing business cards more interesting

Got some boring business cards? Here’s an idea to spice ’em up.

1. Buy an animal hole punch at a hobby/art store.
2. Punch the animal into your business card.
3. Look up some trivia or jokes related to that animal for fun, or even something business-related.
4. When giving away your business card, if someone asks about the animal shape, share the trivia/jokes.

I’ve been punching cows into my business card for a few years now. People always find it fun to have that animal shape in there. When they ask why, I just tell them it’s to do something more fun with the card. Recently, I’ve been looking for more specific reasons, so I looked up some cow trivia: A business-related one is “the word cattle is closely related to ‘chattel’ (a unit of property) and to ‘capital’ in the sense of ‘property.'”

And then there’s the fun trivia, like:

• “There are 350 squirts to a gallon of milk.”
• “A cow doesn’t bite the grass that feeds her; she curls her tongue around it and rips it out of the ground.”

This post was inspired by seeing the Showoff Cards on Scott’s site.

Update 18 years later in 2024

The URL to Scott’s blog post has changed. It’s now: hellomynameisblog.com/youre-such-show-offand-i-like-it/. If you visit that page, you’ll see some broken image icons. The URL in his post to Showoff cards should go to: showoffstudios.com/show-off-cards. Despite the broken images and links, it’s cool that Scott’s website is still up, and he’s still blogging!