The digital business card for networking events, conferences and event planners
A networking business card you share from a badge sticker or a tap, that saves into the other person's phone and captures who you met. For planners, the same card carries the portfolio, the sizzle reel and the "book a call" button that turns a site visit into a proposal.
Four moments a paper card ends up in a drawer
Events are three days of handshakes and one night of forgetting. These are the moments the card has to survive.
A QR sticker on the lanyard and a code on the table card. Visitors scan, save you and leave their details while you're still talking.
Tap an NFC card at the coffee station. The speaker you cornered has you saved, with your one-line pitch, before the next talk starts.
Everyone who opened your card and left their details is in one list, with a reminder. The hotel-room follow-up takes twenty minutes, not a weekend.
For planners: the client walks the venue with your card open, watches the sizzle reel, flips through the portfolio and books the proposal call from the car park.
What to put on a business card for networking
The must-haves get you saved. The rest gets you remembered.
Must-haves
- Name, role and company, plus a photo, so the card matches the face from the hallway.
- One line on what you do, in words a stranger understands at a glance.
- LinkedIn, because that is where they will check you out on the flight home.
- Email and phone as tappable buttons, not text to retype.
- A booking link for the follow-up call, wired to your calendar.
- The event you're at: your booth number, your talk time or your table.
Worth adding
- A short video: your pitch, or for planners the sizzle reel. Video business cards.
- A portfolio gallery for planners, venues and vendors, updated after every event.
- Contact capture, so the people who take your card give you theirs. How contact capture works.
- An event-specific card with that show's offer, its own QR and its own captured leads.
- Your talk or slides link if you're speaking, so the audience takes the deck home.
- Your own design in the company colors, the same on every team member's badge. Custom card design.
One card, shaped to your seat at the event
Same app, a different layout for each role. The badge QR, the capture and the instant updates stay the same.
Conference attendees
A networking business card led by the one-line pitch, LinkedIn and a booking link, tapped between sessions. The follow-ups are already in a list.
Exhibitors and booth staff
One company card for the whole stand, each person's own name on it, every scan's details captured in one place for the post-show email.
Speakers and panelists
The talk, the slides and the booking link on the card, and the QR on the closing slide so the room saves you before the applause ends.
Event planners and coordinators
An event planner business card with the portfolio, the sizzle reel, the service area and a "request a proposal" button, shared at every site visit.
Venues, caterers and vendors
The capacity sheet, the menu or the AV list one tap from your number, and a gallery of the last ten events you did there.
Organizers and associations
A card for the events team with the run-of-show, the emergency line and the sponsor pack, handed to every supplier on load-in day.
What the card does that paper never could
Share from the badge
Print the QR as a badge sticker and a table card, tap an NFC card at the handshake, drop the link in the follow-up. Same live card every time. QR code cards · NFC cards
Remember who you met
Every share can capture a name, email and number, with a follow-up reminder, so the show floor turns into a list you can act on that night. Lead capture app for events
The reel on the card
A 90-second sizzle reel or pitch video travels with your number. The client's committee sees the work, not a card photo. Video business cards
A card per event
Two cards in one app: your everyday card and one for this show, with that event's offer, its own QR and its own captured leads. What a digital business card can hold
One design for the whole stand
The company card on every badge, each person's own name and number, and the leads from every scan in one place. Team cards
Update between events
New title, new show, new offer, new portfolio piece. Change it once and every badge sticker and saved contact shows it. How it works
On the badge before the doors open
Three steps, and the print shop isn't one of them.
Create your card
Sign up in the browser or download the app, add your name, role, company, LinkedIn and the one line on what you do. About five minutes, in the taxi.
Make it the show's card
Add the booth number or talk time, the video or portfolio, the booking link, and turn on contact capture so every scan leaves details.
Put it on the badge
Print the QR as a sticker for the lanyard and a card for the table, tap an NFC card at the handshake, paste the link into the follow-up email.
Networking business card ideas paper can't do
Show-floor tested, in order of effort. The first three take the evening before the event.
A QR sticker on the badge
The lanyard is already at eye level in every conversation. A sticker with your card's code does what a pocketful of paper never did.
"Book a call" instead of "let's connect"
A booking button removes the "when are you free" thread. People book from the card in the taxi; you land with meetings.
Capture who you met, then follow up that night
Turn on contact capture, and the fishbowl of cards becomes a list with names, notes and a reminder before the memory fades.
An event-specific card with the show offer
A second card just for this event, with the discount code or the demo slot, its own QR on the booth and its own leads.
The sizzle reel on a planner's card
Ninety seconds of the last gala does more than a portfolio PDF ever did, and it forwards cleanly to the committee.
The card's QR on the closing slide
Speakers: put the code on the last slide with "slides and booking link here". The room saves you before the applause ends.
Why the paper card keeps ending up in a drawer
Same handshake, very different result on the flight home.
Ordering printed networking business cards for the show? Put the QR code on them.
Some contacts still want paper at the handshake. Add your eBiz card's QR code to the print run and the paper card opens the live one: video, booking button and capture form, updated for every show the box lasts.
How QR code business cards work · Free QR code generator · Step-by-step guide
Event and networking cards, answered
What should I put on a business card for networking?
Your name, role and company, one line on what you actually do, your LinkedIn, an email and a phone number that open in a tap, and a booking link for the follow-up call. On a digital card you can add a short video, the talk or booth you are at, and a form that captures the other person's details so you remember who you met.
Do digital business cards work at conferences and trade shows?
They were made for them. Print your card's QR code on a badge sticker or a table card, or tap an NFC card at the handshake. The other person's phone opens your card in the browser, they save you in a tap, and there is nothing to run out of on day three.
How do I remember who I met at an event?
Turn on contact capture. When someone opens your card they can leave their name, email and number, which lands in your eBiz contacts with a follow-up reminder. The fishbowl of paper cards that never gets typed up is replaced by a list you can act on that night.
What should an event planner's business card include?
Your name and company, the kinds of events you produce, a portfolio gallery or sizzle reel, a "book a call" or proposal-request button, your service area, and your Instagram and LinkedIn. On a digital card the portfolio lives on the card itself and updates after every event.
Does the other person need to download an app?
No. Only you use the eBiz app to build and update your card. Anyone you meet opens it in any browser on any phone and saves your contact in a tap.
Can our booth staff all share the same card?
Yes. On a team plan you design the company card once and every person on the stand carries it with their own name and number. Leads captured by each card land in one place, and a card is switched off the day someone leaves.
Is a digital business card for events free?
Yes. One card with unlimited sharing is free. Paid plans add galleries, video, social icons, full custom design and team management. There is no per-show print run, ever.
Does it work at overseas shows?
Yes. The card is a web page, so it opens on any phone in any country, with your own number format and language. It works on the show floor in Las Vegas, Berlin, Dubai or Singapore.
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Create one card free with unlimited sharing. Paid plans add galleries, video, social icons, full custom design and team management.