How To Make Business Cards, Cheap!

Learning how to make business cards is not hard. Designing Business Cards is Easy & Fun. With all the examples of business cards on line it's a snap.

I Make My Own Business Cards.

Your business card should contain…

Your Logo (if you have one)

Your Name

Phone Number

Website

Email Address

Business Address

If you run a business from your home you may not want to put your address on your business cards. After all there are some crazy people out there and you just never know.

So if this is the case you can always get a P.O. Box from the Post Office or UPS store. A nice feature of using a UPS store is you can get an actual street address. This is handy for ordering from companies who will not ship to P.O. Boxes. Also, this allows packages to be delivered when you are unavailable to accept them even if they require a signature.

Remember, your business cards are a reflection of you and your business. So keep it professional and classy. Cool business cards are memorable but not cheesy.

Design Your Own Business Cards

A plus for Publisher is it contains examples of business cards and templates for business cards built right in. Both programs support using Avery business cards which are readily available and come in many different styles and prices. This makes it easy to match a product to your project.

Business Cards Online

However… I don’t advise you to use their free business card designs for your personal business cards. The logo on back of the free cards diminishes your credibility (just like using a Hotmail or Yahoo email address does).

Instead design your own business cards and set yourself apart from the crowd. They have tools here to help you do this as well. Doing it this way still get’s you a inexpensive business cards but ones that reflect you and your business in a professional and classy way.

How To Create Business Cards That do Double Duty? Use double sided business cards!

Use the back of the card to list your services or make a call to action. Create something that makes you and your business memorable. How many times have you cleaned out your purse and found a stack of business cards you didn’t remember picking up?

Don’t let yours be one of these. Create cool business cards so they stay out of the trash.

Think of the business cards you actually KEEP. What made them special? Why did you keep it?

Were there excellent graphics on the card, perhaps a picture of the product or service being offered?

A call to action like… “Win Free Candles & Soap at www.CrazyForCandles.net”?

A list of products or services.

A mini calendar.

One business card I designed even doubled as a gift tag when folded in half!

Designing business cards that are memorable is how to make business cards work for you and not get tossed out.

The list is endless. So, as my grandma would say, when designing your own business cards, don’t to let the space on the back "Go Begging".

Now that you know how to make business cards you'll want to learn how to use them effectively. For some great marketing ideas for business cards, click here.

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