1) What job title? Standard titles such as 'developer' or 'designer' may be too restrictive for the likes of us. If you've got a startup should you be CEO, Founder, Director etc? If you freelance or do a variety of jobs what do you put?
2) What contact information? Which contact information do you give? URL, email, mobile number, etc?
3) Design Are Moo cards acceptable? Can you print your own or should you go for high end thick card with spot gloss finish? Should you put a custom design on the back or leave it blank?
Heres some interesting ideas I've seen on cards recently: Tag cloud and blank fields. Put a tag cloud of all your abilities on the back of the card such as "ruby on rails" or "entrepeneur" and circle the relevant ones when you give your card away. Another card I've seen has blank fields eg "You met Dan W at ______ and talked about _____. You though he was ____" that can be filled in when handing it over.
So what are your business cards like? Do you even need any?
I like that blank field idea, that's really neat and organized.
Don't print out your own. You have to go for high end/"real" business cards. Someone in one of my college classes handed me his business card and it was printed on regular paper. Right away I thought he wasn't very professional.
In all fairness, when I asked Mark about this he said it was just a joke gone bad...
Best job title I've seen was "CEO & Janitor" on a card of a single founder.
It's more an art project, though.
I felt they deserved their own submission - actually the studies are quite old, I think, but your post made me search and find them again.
My next batch of cards are just going to have my name and the company name on them.
Anything else can be found on google :)
Worry more about the impression you leave when you meet those people and less about superficial stuff like biz card stock and font.