Welcome to Smuggle Me

About 3 months ago I made a presentation to a bunch of business people and angel investors for a business plan competition. I ended up doing pretty well and met a lot of interesting people. After winning the competition I was talking with one of the judges trying to create a relationship with him since he works for a multi-national company that does search engine marketing. Probably someone worth knowing.

After talking a little, he asked me for a business card. I was stuck. I had just written a business plan and hadn’t even considered the fact that someone might actually wany my number. Granted, considering my budget at the time I would have certainly needed to find some free business cards.

Well, it turns out that I’m a complete fool. There are plenty of places across the web where you can get free business cards. You can imagine my disgust with myself when I found out about free business cards. I can’t imagine what that executive thought of me without business cards when I could have gotten some for free!! I guess I could have blamed it on the fact that many places charge you shipping for the cards.

After telling him that I didn’t have any business cards on me, he said one phrase that will ring in my ears for a long time…

“An entrepreneur without a business card. ”

I’ve learned my lesson. I’ll always have a business card handy.