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TheBee'sKnees · Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 7:17 pm Post subject: Business cards for networking?

Do any of you use business cards that specifically refer to teaching English to network with schools and other teachers? If so, what do you have on them?

Also, does anyone here use a personal website for the same purposes?

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

I have business cards with my university's name on it. Good enough? I take them to meetings and conferences to hand out to colleagues. Is this what you mean by networking? It is to me.

gaijinalways · Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 2279

The same, though I don't always carry them with me, because sometimes you just bump into people and they might come in handy.

Kent F. Kruhoeffer · Joined: 22 Jan 2003 Posts: 2129 Location: 中国

This page is pretty neat ... and it's free

http://www.businesscardland.com/home/

Jetgirly · Joined: 17 Jul 2004 Posts: 741

I'm a B.Ed student, and my university gives us business cards with the university logo on them. The cards show our prior degrees, but I requested that they also list the CELTA on it. The cards are pretty clear that we're "Bachelor of Education Student Teacher[s]", so only an idiot would look at it and think it suggested we actually worked at the uni.

saint57 · Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:39 am Post subject:

Yeah, my school gave me a bunch. I mostly use them to network with bar girls though.