For networking and events
Add a QR to your business card that drops your contact info into any phone.
Copy a starter, then tweak it for your campaign.
Hosted contact page
https://example.com/contact/jane
vCard payload
BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 FN:Jane Doe ORG:Acme TITLE:Head of Growth TEL:+15555550123 EMAIL:jane@example.com URL:https://example.com END:VCARD
LinkedIn profile
https://www.linkedin.com/in/example
Lean vCard (small-print friendly)
BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 FN:Jane Doe TEL:+15555550123 EMAIL:jane@example.com END:VCARD
Booking-first card
https://example.com/book/jane
Short link to contact hub
https://lnk.example/jane
Manually typing a stranger's email and phone number into a phone after a conference is a tax nobody pays anymore. A QR cuts that to a single tap.
You have two options: encode a vCard payload directly (works offline) or encode a short link to a hosted contact page (lets you update details later).
The offline-vs-updatable trade-off deserves real thought before you print five hundred cards. A vCard QR works on a trade-show floor with zero signal and drops your details straight into the contacts app — but the moment your title, number, or employer changes, every card in circulation is wrong. A short link to a hosted contact page inverts that: it needs connectivity to resolve, but the destination stays current for the life of the card. People who change roles every couple of years should lean hosted; people printing cards for a stable practice can enjoy the frictionless offline vCard.
Payload size is the hidden constraint on card-sized codes. QR complexity grows with content, and a dense code printed at 1.5 cm becomes unscannable in dim conference lighting. Keep vCards lean — name, organization, title, one phone, one email, one URL — and skip the embedded photo entirely. If you're encoding a URL instead, a short link produces a dramatically simpler pattern than a long one, which directly improves scan reliability at small sizes.
Print quality decides outcomes at this scale. Matte finishes scan better than gloss (glare defeats cameras), dark-on-light massively outperforms inverted or 'creative' color treatments, and the code needs its quiet zone — the empty margin around the pattern — respected by your card designer. Ask the print shop for a physical proof and scan it with several phones before approving the run.
Where the QR goes on the card matters less than that it's obvious and uncrowded: the back of the card is the conventional spot, at 1.5 cm or larger, with a tiny caption like 'Scan to save my contact'. The front stays clean for the human reading it; the back works for the phone.
One more angle worth considering: a hosted contact page can carry more than a vCard ever could — calendar booking link, portfolio, social profiles, a downloadable vCard button for the people who do want the offline artifact. The QR then becomes the front door to your professional presence rather than a static data dump, and with a LinkPilot short link behind it you also learn how many cards actually get scanned.
Hand out cards that get saved into contacts on the spot — no typos, no lost leads, no 'I'll add you later' that never happens.
Standardize a vCard format across the team so prospects always get the right title and phone number, and reprints stay consistent when territories shift.
Display a QR on stage so attendees can save your info as you walk off — the highest-intent thirty seconds you'll ever get.
Point the card QR at a hosted page with your portfolio, booking calendar, and a vCard download — one card serving both 'save my number' and 'see my work'.
Leave-behind cards with a scan-to-save QR make you the contractor whose number is actually in the customer's phone at the next emergency.
Pre-configured variants tuned to specific platforms and use cases.
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Open variantFor lead capture and outreach
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Open variant