To keep up with growth of media and technology, we seem to always have to update ourselves to the “new”. Something as straightforward as a business card needs a fresh new design once in a while.

With the emerging of QR Codes, we may see these more regularly in our everyday lives such as wherever advertising can be placed and that includes even business cards. Remember when having the phone number or fax number was the most important thing on a business card? Well, with a scan of the mobile phone on a QR code, you can go to any site with more detailed information about the contact such as to LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, corporate website, etc. This allows you to connect instantly with the contact and have access to their social networking information. Instead of cramming all your information on a business card, you can now just put down the important information and store the detailed information on the site your QR code links to.

Since media and technology is always changing, will business cards be replaced? Videos replaced radios, DVD’s and Bluray’s replaced VHS’s, CD’s replaced cassettes and will the mobile phones replace business cards? Business cards are convenient to easily and quickly distribute and all the contact information is located right on the card. With technology though, we can just store the contact information on our portable devices.  Also, this would ideally also eliminate another resource of cutting down trees for the abundant amounts of business cards being made at a time. Is having a QR code on a business card a good idea and will business cards get replaced? Let us know what you think.