How Things Change In A Few Years . . .

It is over five years since I did a Start-Up course at one of those enterprise type places. That was my first official experience of 'networking,' although I had been doing it for a long time before without knowing what it was called. On that course I came across about ten other people, all with their own businesses. It wasn't as far back as The Dark Ages, so everyone who attended had business cards to hand out. They ranged from 'amateur printing at home on thick paper' to 'professionally printed on card.'

This morning I was going through my wallet which holds important details like bank account numbers and National Insurance numbers etc, and found the cards I had collected on that course. Some had mobile numbers on them, some had email addresses included, but only two had websites listed. Of course, part of the course deal was to receive a free holding page designed for your website, so perhaps the others had elected to get that up and running before having the details printed on their cards.

Just for curiosity, I checked the two links from the cards, and neither of them are loading.

I would anticipate that if I attended the same type of course today all ten would have websites. It is so easy to get yourself up and running these days with fifteen different social media identities, blogs, and websites that I dare say the site would be done long before the business plan!