So apparently LEGO employees get custom minifigs made to look like them, complete with printed contact info to use as business cards. Well tickle me jealous! LEGO, if you're reading this, I must have some. Go ahead and use my picture from hotornot. Seriously, I'm a solid 6.5. I NEED THESE BUSINESS F...

Many mystery shopping assignments require that you submit a receipt. The receipt verifies that you were at the location and when you were there, as well as how much you spent. The mystery shopping company will state in the shop guidelines how they prefer to have receipts submitted to them. These day...

For most of 2008, I didn’t carry any business cards with me. It was sort of an unofficial experiment to see if I could simply say “Google me� when asked for one. Of course, it wasn’t a very good experiment because I have no way to measure how successful it was. I did get the impression that ...

Written by Simon Mackie. CloudContacts, a startup aiming to make the information stranded on business cards more accessible, added a new service to its offering this week. While they may seem archaic, business cards are still the de facto way of sharing contact information. After attending a confere...

MTV Shows MTV's Stephen Totilo is mixing things up over at Multiplayer, first redesigning the site to look oddly familiar, now posting odd, news-light videos. Totilo's first stab at irrelevant videos is a quick tour through some of the game-related crap he discovered in his desk while cleaning out t...

My goodness if I had a nickel for every time I have been asked this question.  It really makes me realize that with as much information that is available out there, that maybe there is just TMI (too much information).  It gets to be overwhelming to the point that Newbies just end up not doing anyt...

Apparently, academic studies have been done arguing that the more Spartan your workplace, the more likely it is that you'll be promoted. If you are the sort of person who is cheered by family photos, an action figure, or a concert poster, you're rather screwed in the business world. So, you have a t...

In Exploring Social Media: Social Media Tools, I featured a list of what other social media sites and experts recommend as their social media tools. Let’s take a step backwards and explore the basics you need to have in place as part of your core social media tools for bloggers and businesses ...

I really tried to get way too much accomplished prior to attending the Blog World Expo 2008 conference in Las Vegas last week. I was in the process of upgrading the business, changing the name, offering more to potential clients, and get the new company website up. It was a LOT to take on in a very ...

Do you have business cards that you use for yourself? More than likely, many of you probably don’t. Since I work from home with clients that aren’t in my area, I hardly ever run into situations where I need to present a formal business card, but after years of resistance, I do finally ha...