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Guides to digital business cards

Plain guides to digital business cards: how NFC and QR codes work, how they compare with paper, cards for a team and what a profile shares.

  1. What is a digital business card?

    A digital business card is a card or link that opens your profile on someone's phone. How NFC and QR codes do it, what the profile holds and what it costs.4 min read

  2. NFC or QR code on a business card?

    NFC opens your profile with a tap; a QR code works from a camera, a screen or a slide. Which phones read which, and why a card carries both.3 min read

  3. Paper or digital business card?

    Paper cards are cheap and familiar, but date with each new number or title. What a digital card changes, what it doesn't, and when paper still fits.4 min read

  4. Digital business cards for your team

    Company cards without reprints for every hire, new title or departure: one look per team, profiles the company manages, cards passed to the next person.2 min read

  5. Keeping your contact details current

    A new number, title or website shouldn't mean a box of reprints. How to keep what your card leads to current, and what to check now and then.3 min read

  6. Digital business cards and privacy

    What a digital card's profile shows, what someone who taps it sees, and the rights Türkiye's personal data law (KVKK) gives you over your data.4 min read

  7. What decides an NFC business card's price?

    NFC card prices vary with the card's material and print, the chip, whether the profile needs a subscription and who designs it. What to compare.3 min read

  8. Using your business card at events

    A card helps only if the person remembers why they kept it. Habits for fairs, meetings and conferences: before, while you talk and the days after.2 min read