Updates from October, 2009
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The Latest Meme Cards, Dunder Airlines
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A new prototype card style
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While the rounded corners won’t be available for a while – you have to admit that they are rather sexy.
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Prepping our first international order!
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Free Meme Card Templates
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I am going to start offering FREE download versions for each meme card. Create your own modifications and print them yourself – or use a different online printing company. Right now, the templates are only available in Adobe Illustrator (.ai) files.
Currently available:
The Black Card Template,
The Google Me Card Template -
Meme - like cream. The new name rolled out nicely.
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meme |mēm| noun Biology – an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, esp. imitation.
After considerable thought, I have decided to drop CrackCard and replace it with Meme Card. While Crack is funny, Meme is clever. Even when mispronounced as “me-me”, it still works. A meme (rymes with cream) is a thing that quickly gets passed from one person to another – like your personal brand.
My ego will have a moment of silence for the name I once thought so brilliant – fair well dear CrackCard.
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Would a Brand of any other name not smell as sweet?
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Ever since I started building this personalized business card service, I have battled with the name. I wanted something to standout from the mix of print related brands – and ended up going with CrackCard. I knew it was a sledge hamer of a name, one that would continually need to compensate for being so rough. For months, I have gone back and forth on what names to go with. I would challenge my children on which name they could spell, read and most importantly remember.
“CrackCard? Dad, it’s a business – you can’t call it CrackCard. But you know what, Crack is a funny word, and I did remember it” said my 7 year old son. He was right, Crack is a funny word – but he was also right, that this is business – and Crack won’t float for the masses of people I need to purchase personal cards.
So in the next week or so, I hope to roll out the new and improved brand!
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The most impressive business card I have ever seen. Fail
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The CrackCard Story - Part 1
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Some of you might know that my father (Bill Corbin) has been rocking the the printing industry for some 30 years. Ever since a young age I have been surrounded by paper, alcohol and ink, however, when the web started to gain traction – I saw the opportunity to make my own mark and left the tangible world of print behind. But ink runs strong through these veins – and my mind continually searches for a reason to build a product that leverages print again. CrackCard is it.What is the mission of CrackCard?
- To create unique and stylish personal business cards
- Promote designers
- Help web publishers generate revenue from their brand in print.
What powers CrackCard?
- CrackCard is powered by the open source ecommerce platform Magento.
- Payments powered by PayPal
- Printing and Fullfillment by UN Communications.
- CrackCard illustrations by Derek Edwards
- Hosting is handled beautiful by Aptana Cloud.
- eCommerce Analytics by Google Analytics
- Social Marketing using Twitter, Facebook
