Cards That Mean Business

by Ernie Heldman

The Book For Anyone Who wants His Business Card Kept & Used After It's Given!

This book is illustrated with diagrams and some black and white photos. This volume was #18 in "The Lee Jacobs Promotion & Publicity Series" and describes How to hand out your business cards magically. The few copies we have are in like new condition, except for the age of warehouse storage since they were printed in 1981.

 

Contents Include:

•  Introduction by Jon Racherbaumer
• Foreword  by Ernie Heldman
• From the Printer's Angle: having your business cards printed with magic in mind

8 Magical Printing
8 Solo Card: showing both sides blank and then printed
9 Wild Card: idea to use a Wild Card routine with business card, workings not detailed
9 Prints Charming: six blanks shown then four become printed
10 Color Changes
10 On-Again Off-Again Cards (Larry Austin): four blank business cards become printed on both sides
11 Jaks' Blacks: based on Dr. Jaks The Four Blacks, chosen card becomes printed
12 - New 1-4 Out: if different cards are chosen
13 A Flash: idea for a flashy printing 
13 - Tip: a tip on writing notes on your cards

13 Just A Note: a comedy business card
13 Up and At ' Em: a rising business card
15 A Pocket Version: based on a Don Lawton idea, card rises from breast pocket
16 S.P.E.H.: The Society for the Preservation of Ernie Heldman, card personalization idea
18 A Gift: gag gift idea
18 Oil and Water: idea from Leo Behnke for business cards
19 What's In A Name? (Gerald Kosky): two card transposition
20 Two Plus Eleven Minus One: clever math gag, they'll keep your card
20 Mathormental: mathematical stunt
21 Concerning "Pseudo-Psychometry": bare bones ideas for use with business cards
22 Living or Dead: ideas on the theme
23 Crosscut: further ideas on the concept
24 Here's My Card: the Out-to-Lunch principle applied
26 Photographs of Ernie Heldman in Action
29 Card Tricks, One Flood of Ideas: ideas for adapting card tricks to business cards
30 Nail Writers: tips on use
31 Pocket Money: coin prediction
31 The Nail Writer Meets "Glorpy": Glorpy writes on the business card
32 The Nail Writer Meets "Mental Epic": where the third selection does not need to be a force
33 Winding Up the Nail Writer: more thoughts and ideas
33 Giant Memory
34 Bowyer Expanded (Tom Bowyer): Turn me over cards
34 A Bowyer Variation: with just two cards

35 Magic Squares: tips on using
35 One Hundred Seventeen and Up: mental effect
36 Knight's Tour: with a 5x5 matrix
38 Another Sixty-Five
39 Sweet Sixteen: 4x4
40 Bombshell Number One
41 Bombshell Number Two

42 Memory By the Numbers: on memory in general, and assigning a 10 digit number to anyone that you will remember
48 Mister Computer: a use for the system

48 Some Tips (Ernie Heldman)
50 Some Final Words (Ernie Heldman)
50 Afterword (Lee Jacobs)

Details: Cards That Mean Business by Ernie Heldman

52 pages, soft covers, saddle-stitched, Size: 8 1/2" by 11".