It happened. Just like Chuck Delaney said it would in Photography Your Way. He said that even if you don’t consider yourself a professional photographer you should have business cards with your name on them to give to people when they ask – which he said they would. I was at my first gig last weekend and within 5 minutes someone asked me for a card. Unfortunately, I’d ignored Chuck’s advice and I had no business cards. My reasoning was that I didn’t know what I’d name my business – if I were to get that far. I was still trying to come up with the perfect name when I should have followed his advice and just had a card with my name printed on it and photographer as my occupation along with all my relevant contact information. Business cards are cheap enough to have them reprinted when the perfect name comes to you. In the meantime, have something to hand to a prospective client that is more professional than your digits scribbled on a scrap of paper – which is what I had to do. Ugh.
Lesson learned.
