Business Card Card Stock: Why Heavier is Better

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I’ve mentioned several times on this blog the importance of choosing a heavy well cut card stock for your business card. Recently, several business card websites began offering even heavier card stock to their clients. The fact that heavy card stock makes a difference is catching on. The weight of your business card tells as much of a story as the information printed on the front.

Extremely light weight thin business cards do not make ..read more

Professional Comedian’s Business Card

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Those who make their living from making folks laugh need to be taken seriously when it comes to booking, negotiations, publicity and marketing. Comedians are like any other working professional and need a business card. The comedian’s business card should avoid cheap gimmicks and let vendors and clients know that you may make folks laugh for a living but your business is no laughing matter.

Be sure to incorporate any established branding on the comedian’s ..read more

Advertising Agency Business Card

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The modern advertising agency supports a host of employees, computer platforms and clients. Keeping clients is all about keeping the ideas fresh and the creativity professional. The advertising agency’s business card must be some of the company’s best branding work. An ad agency business card should be vibrant, fresh and even cutting edge.

When designing the advertising agency business card consider both current trends and emerging styles when creating the background template. You want your ..read more

Cupcake Company Business Card

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Cupcakes have become very popular desserts and wedding day alternatives. The professional cupcake business is in high demand. Creating desserts that gain a reputation is about a good product and good advertising. The business card remains the best form of advertising for any company. The cup cake company business card is visually stimulating, informative and fun.

It is essential that the cupcake business card make you hungry, trigger some response to the sight of a ..read more

Receiving Business Cards: the Art of Networking

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Having great business cards is wonderful. Receiving a lot of business cards is fantastic. Every business card someone has given you is a potential sale. People don’t just hand their business cards out to anyone so getting one is a definite win. Amassing business cards is the goal of any good networker. There are a few tried and tested ways to receive business cards.

The easiest way to get a business card is to give ..read more

Business Card Holders and Why You Need Them

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Taking the time to create professional looking well printed business cards for your company is only one part of the process. Those business cards must be kept in good condition until they are handed over to clients and potential customers. If you order several thousand business cards at one time they must be preserved between the ordering box and the client’s wallet. Business card holders are the difference between a good and bad impression when it comes to ..read more

Business Cards for the Home Party Professionalism

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The home sales party is a tradition in American homes and a staple of the stay at home parent economy for over fifty years. Home party professionals sell everything from kitchen-ware and storage containers to makeup, clothes and jewelry. Competing with big box stores and capitalizing on the small town charm of a freelance professional, home party hosts need business cards that are confident, complete and charismatic.

Product placement is key to the success of ..read more

Swimming Pool Business Card

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As the sun makes itself known, the search for leisure activities increases. Swimming is a classic summer standby and swimming pools and aquatic centers are gearing up for their busy season. The swimming pool business card should promote the facility and upcoming seasonal events as well as provide information about opening times and general procedures.

A swimming pool business card should of course reflect the nature of water. You could use metallic or silver foiling ..read more

Searching for the Perfect Business Card

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Choosing a business card for freelancers and the self employed can be quite a tough process. You aren’t only representing your brand you are representing yourself. In the search for my new business card I have browsed thousands of possibilities. Some template stir my interest but I have yet to find the one that speaks to me. Writing and researching business cards for a living probably means my search is taking longer but that sense of finding just ..read more

One Business, One Business Card

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For many people, including small town residents and entrepreneurs, a single business card isn’t enough. When you are involved in multiple projects you need to have contact information for different stores, websites, e-mail addresses etc. Some folks want to put all this information onto a single business card for their convenience forgetting the mixed branding message it sends to potential clients.

If you run a local business, sit on the school board, coach the volley ..read more