What should a freelancer's business card have?

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Published on 2011-02-26T22:42:59Z Indexed on 2011/02/26 23:32 UTC
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For example, when I first started out freelancing a year ago, my business card had my name, email and website - and up top a list of the technologies I'm comfortable with. In retrospect I don't feel this was a wise decision.

Why would a potential client know what Python or Ruby is? How could he know what .NET was?

I still have a couple of the old batch left, but I'm going to send out for some new cards.

What do you recommend we developers have to show on our business cards? Am I correct in thinking listing technologies is meaningless to potential clients?

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