Evan's FIRST 3 Business Cards - #LifeWithEvan

Hello Believe Nation, happy weekend! Today I wanted to share with you my first 3 business cards in this business. I hope you guys have some fun with it. So behind me in this office you may have seen before, I have this wall of memories and I've got some trading cards, my first skateboard. I think I did a video on the skateboard and what it means to me and I thought It's the end of the weekend, we're having some fun, maybe we should take another item off of the wall of memories and bring in my first 3 business cards. I don't use business cards anymore. When I go to events, I'll take somebody's business card, but I'll never ask for it, and I don't use it. I don't like carrying them around with me. Yeah, I don't know, I just don't use business cards. People can find me, you type in Evan Carmichael, you'll find me on email, on website, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, whatever, you'll find me. Ooh, I used to have business cards though, and I thought I'd share the 3 that I have on my wall to share with you. So these are interesting. Okay, so the very first one. This is the most embarrassing one, I think. The very first one. Let's hold it up. Here we go. There it is. Look at that, huh? Woo! I had a friend of mine who's a photographer come around with me around where my office was downtown, and we walked around and took that picture. I used to have that goatee going on. My slogan was helping you build the company of your dreams. So that was exciting. And email, a phone number back when I had a phone number. Look at that. I wonder what happens when you call that now. I don't know. And on the back, check out the back. The back were all sorts of different resources that I felt that entrepreneurs should be aware of. So it was entrepreneur websites, market research, useful links, youth programs, how to register your business and other Canadian Resources, this is for Canadian entrepreneurs, since most of the people I was talking to was Canadian at the time. So yeah, I have it in a protective casing because these don't exist anymore. And so that's, that's the first one. I'm maybe 22 in this picture. Look at that. I'm like rocking the Versace belt and the long sleeve. Okay, next, moving on. So that was the slogan there, "Helping you build the company of your dreams." Then I moved to this. Look at that, huh? Yeah, look at that sexiness. There we go. So this one reads, "Distinctive resources for today's entrepreneur." Ah, look at that. Same photographer, a friend of mine actually who helped me build this. This was when I had my second office. So this was downtown when I was out of the venture capital office. And then this is when I moved out and had my own office. Downtown. And then on the back of this one, I have a picture of my parents, my younger sister, and my older sister. And I wrote, "Every day we wake up to follow our dreams and make the world a better place for the ones that we love. Thank you, Dad, Mom, Stephanie, Alexandra, and Dany, for your continuous love and support." And so I wanted to have something meaningful on the back. So the first time I had the resources on the back, and the second time I wanted to just show some gratitude and love for my family on the back. That's pretty cool. I think the other people on my team that I made business cards for, we did something similar to, so that every time you handed out a card, it was a little bit extra gratitude and love. It almost makes you wanna do cards again, just because of, forget about the front, forget about this, I don't care about any of that. This, sending the love on the back, almost, almost makes me wanna do it again. I like, it's getting me thinking. And then the most recent one that I was using when I still used business cards was this. This one. So this is more, uh, professional. It's taken— actually, it's taken on a cruise ship. Look at me in a suit and tie. This is the most formal I've been on any of these cards. The back is, uh, just information about myself. This replicates the entrepreneur trading cards that I did. So I did these entrepreneur trading cards that we raised $100,000+ for Kiva to help entrepreneurs in Africa get started. And I connect with a bunch of bloggers and people in the space and ask them who your favorite entrepreneur is, and I made it in this style. So we did Steve Jobs and Seth Godin and Gary Vaynerchuk and a whole bunch of people. So I made my own card in that format, and this actually hurt people's brains a little bit because it's not the typical size of a business card. It's a baseball card, right? Like, this is the business card size. The other one's a baseball card size. It didn't quite fit in people's wallets. Or your normal card holder or any of that stuff. But I'm okay with that. I'm okay with breaking convention a little bit. Now, no business cards. So first one, second one, third one. It's been a lot of fun and they stay up on my wall of memories because it reminds me of that time in my life when I was using those and what I was going through at the time. Yeah, so I thought I'd share that with you. I'd love to know in the comments below what you think of the cards. What was your favorite? And do you have any embarrassing first business card stories or pictures that you want to share? Leave it down in the comments below. Make a video reply if you want with your business cards. I'd love to see it. Thank you guys so much for watching. I hope you had an amazing weekend. I believe in you. I hope you continue to believe in yourself and whatever your one word is. Much love, guys. I'll see you soon.