Forget About Smart Business Cards – Make Your Own For Way Less

Have you seen any of the ads for “smart” business cards? The ones you can tap on a phone and it’ll open your digital business card. Great for networking as you don’t need to carry around stacks of cards anymore, but can instantly transfer your contact information to people you meet.

Intrigued by these “smart” business cards, I wanted to know more about how they work. And I put smart in quotations not because I don’t think they’re smart. Being able to tap your business cards on any smart phone is pretty clever. Paying anywhere between $50 and $200 for them is not smart at all. Hence the quotations.

See How It Works

Do It Yourself

I see ads for these “smart” business cards on social media daily. Whether you want to sport a traditional business card and just make it smart, or add a tag to your keychain so you have your new “really smart” business card with you all the time, here’s how to do it.

1. Order a set of NFC tags. They come in handy stickers (which you can add to, or discreetly in betwee…