I am starting up a collaboration based hi tech company. as of right now i am still building the website and am not actively seeking customers. i started going to some networking/entrepreneur meetings and have gotten to a point where i want to get some cards made up so that people i meet will have my company name, website, email, etc. I am in a bit of a dilemma regarding what job title i should give myself on the business cards. I obviously don’t want to give myself something that sounds over gratifying (ceo, president, founder, etc), but i don’t want to put a title on that would take me out of consideration for a conversation by someone of decent business stature. I’ve considered the idea of no title as well, but am really not sure. What do you think?
in regard to the response that points out that i haven’t provided much detail (thx for pointing that out):
it is a hi tech startup that provides access to Internet available workstations, web conferencing, a demonstration/elearning management area, hosted documents/presentations,/media, and an assessment/quiz builder. I am currently my only employee. My experience is all on the internet engineering side, though i am obviously going to have to run my business, develop at least my first couple of client relationships, take out the garbage, and everything else.
thx again for your comments
You don’t say a lot about what you or the company actually do, so it is hard to be to precise, but a couple of ideas…
Director of… for example ‘Director of Technical Services’
Manager… for example ‘Sales Manager’
Owner/Operator… this is signal that you are small business, but not necessarily a bad thing.
Just a few suggestions to get you going. Good luck.
January 26th, 2010 at 9:11 pm
You don’t say a lot about what you or the company actually do, so it is hard to be to precise, but a couple of ideas…
Director of… for example ‘Director of Technical Services’
Manager… for example ‘Sales Manager’
Owner/Operator… this is signal that you are small business, but not necessarily a bad thing.
Just a few suggestions to get you going. Good luck.
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