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		<title>By: raamenchan</title>
		<link>http://raamenchan.com/2009/05/23/perfect-business-card/comment-page-1/#comment-126</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Guinevere

No, you may not be a marketing wizard, but those are some great thoughts!

You&#039;re right, I don&#039;t want to spread myself too thin. If I&#039;m going to work with a large and varied audience, I need to work with them one by one. Sako-san brought out some basic business theory out to me the other day and I thought hmm... I can&#039;t ignore this stuff, can I!

I think I&#039;ll take your invitation for a further chat on this. I&#039;ll give you a call on skype!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Guinevere</p>
<p>No, you may not be a marketing wizard, but those are some great thoughts!</p>
<p>You&#8217;re right, I don&#8217;t want to spread myself too thin. If I&#8217;m going to work with a large and varied audience, I need to work with them one by one. Sako-san brought out some basic business theory out to me the other day and I thought hmm&#8230; I can&#8217;t ignore this stuff, can I!</p>
<p>I think I&#8217;ll take your invitation for a further chat on this. I&#8217;ll give you a call on skype!</p>
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		<title>By: Guinevere</title>
		<link>http://raamenchan.com/2009/05/23/perfect-business-card/comment-page-1/#comment-118</link>
		<dc:creator>Guinevere</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 23:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What a cute idea!
I can&#039;t wait to see your designs!

What can you fold that doesn&#039;t have too much crease,
but represents you or your ideas?

I mean, this idea makes sense because it is
&quot;scrunch up magazine&quot; and the paper is &quot;scrunched up.&quot; 
This is very creative, so I think you should definitely
utilize this idea with slight modifications to better
accommodate your needs.

Your business card is a miniature representation of yourself
to your clients and I think your idea will be more effective
if your clients can some how relate the card to you.

And before you design anything, a few questions:

Which name will you use as your professional name?
Which segment of people are you targeting?
Are you targeting a specific age group? Are you targeting a group with
specific lifestyle? 

I ask these questions because as you said in your other post, when
it comes to marketing yourself and your services, it is advisable not to 
over-generalize because:

1). Your clients are a group of people. Certain services and ideas you provide will be well-received by some, while not by others.
2). Which is why it is important to know your target segment to have a specific strategy
that will appeal to them,
3). And because your clients will need, want and require different services, it would be essentially impossible to try to reach everyone (you&#039;d end up spreading yourself too thin).

Ah. This post is getting really long, but if you&#039;d like to discuss your approach, 
I&#039;d love to have this conversation one on on, perhaps on gchat or facebook chat
some time. :) 

This is an incomplete post, btw, and while I am no marketing wizard, I may
have an idea or two that may be of help to you... so... see you on gchat some time! :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What a cute idea!<br />
I can&#8217;t wait to see your designs!</p>
<p>What can you fold that doesn&#8217;t have too much crease,<br />
but represents you or your ideas?</p>
<p>I mean, this idea makes sense because it is<br />
&#8220;scrunch up magazine&#8221; and the paper is &#8220;scrunched up.&#8221;<br />
This is very creative, so I think you should definitely<br />
utilize this idea with slight modifications to better<br />
accommodate your needs.</p>
<p>Your business card is a miniature representation of yourself<br />
to your clients and I think your idea will be more effective<br />
if your clients can some how relate the card to you.</p>
<p>And before you design anything, a few questions:</p>
<p>Which name will you use as your professional name?<br />
Which segment of people are you targeting?<br />
Are you targeting a specific age group? Are you targeting a group with<br />
specific lifestyle? </p>
<p>I ask these questions because as you said in your other post, when<br />
it comes to marketing yourself and your services, it is advisable not to<br />
over-generalize because:</p>
<p>1). Your clients are a group of people. Certain services and ideas you provide will be well-received by some, while not by others.<br />
2). Which is why it is important to know your target segment to have a specific strategy<br />
that will appeal to them,<br />
3). And because your clients will need, want and require different services, it would be essentially impossible to try to reach everyone (you&#8217;d end up spreading yourself too thin).</p>
<p>Ah. This post is getting really long, but if you&#8217;d like to discuss your approach,<br />
I&#8217;d love to have this conversation one on on, perhaps on gchat or facebook chat<br />
some time. <img src='http://raamenchan.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  </p>
<p>This is an incomplete post, btw, and while I am no marketing wizard, I may<br />
have an idea or two that may be of help to you&#8230; so&#8230; see you on gchat some time! <img src='http://raamenchan.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: raamenchan</title>
		<link>http://raamenchan.com/2009/05/23/perfect-business-card/comment-page-1/#comment-109</link>
		<dc:creator>raamenchan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 19:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Haha it does, doesn&#039;t it! But if it works it works!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Haha it does, doesn&#8217;t it! But if it works it works!</p>
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		<title>By: Hiroaki Asakawa</title>
		<link>http://raamenchan.com/2009/05/23/perfect-business-card/comment-page-1/#comment-98</link>
		<dc:creator>Hiroaki Asakawa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 06:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>lol...sounds like arts and crafts in grade school! have fun!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>lol&#8230;sounds like arts and crafts in grade school! have fun!</p>
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