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15
Oct
2011

Maintaining The Competitive Look Of Your Business Cards

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Want to maintain that competitive look for your business cards? Well, the key actually here is to always improve your designs. Even cheap business cards will always need to improve if you want them to actually be competitive and attract partners and customers. To do this, you will want to always adjust and be on top with the different aspects of the craft of developing these business cards.

I have listed down below five of the most basic things that you will want to do to maintain your own business card’s competitive look. Follow these steps precisely to make sure that your business cards will always look fresh and of course will always attract the key people that you want.

1. Check how your competition is developing their cards.

It is a good first step to see how others are actually developing their business cards. This is especially important if you are relatively new, or just relatively clueless about full color business card printing. By knowing how the best people design and print their own business card, you can at least discover all the best possible practices to maintain and even improve your business cards always.

So try to ask some colleagues, or maybe even review how the real experts do it through tutorials or classes online. The more you learn from them, the better you can improve your business cards to be more competitive.

2. Check the changing tastes of your target partners/customers.

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You should also think not only about what you want in your business card, but also what others expect or will like from it. A competitive business card connects with its target readers and of course has the right kinds of design elements that will attract and excite them.

So if you want to improve your business cards and maintain its competitive look, you will want to do some light research about your target partners and discover what the best design elements will attract them.

3. Get up to date information about business card printing methods/materials.

It is also important for you to get up to date information about business card printing methods and materials. If you want to have that competitive look, you should know all the best and latest printing tricks and features that will of course make your business cards look very trendy and appealing.

So try to visit printing websites every so often and review some of the new updates about business card printing. This should give you the best ideas to improve your business cards and maintain their competitiveness.

4. Review current prevailing trends in printed design.

You might also want to review the current trends in printed design. A competitive look for business cards means being in line with the current trends in business card layouts and other types of prints, but also having a few distinct factors that make those cards a cut above the rest.

That is why it is a good idea to check some of the new types of business cards and other prints every so often. The most popular ones should dictate how you should style your own cards competitively.

5. Explore and find new sources of inspiration.

Finally, try to explore and fine new sources of inspiration for your business cards. Some designers can really get stuck doing derivative design works for business cards with no real fresh new ideas.

So it is actually better to explore beyond the different kinds of business card design concepts. Find new inspiration from other forms of art, or even directly from nature as well. This should really unclog your mind and hopefully get you t a more original and competitive look for your business cards.

It should now be easy for you to maintain that competitive look for your business cards. It does require some work so do not be lazy about this. Make sure you understand everything before you start out with all these tasks for business card improvement.

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Janice Jenkins is a writer for a marketing company in Chicago, IL. Mostly into marketing research, Janice started writing articles early 2007 to impart her knowledge to individuals new to the marketing industry.


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29
Jul
2011

Achieving That Perfect Look with Custom Business Cards

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Are you aware that custom business cards require a certain look to be effective and successful? When you print business cards, this aspect or style for business cards is crucial to communicate your own personal business image across successfully. In this guide, I will teach you five common styles for custom business cards so that you can achieve that perfect look in its design.

1.      The professional look – The first kind of look is the “professional look”. This kind of style is characterized by the use of contemporary popular designs for business cards. From modern minimalist to neo-classic styles, the professional look is used for business cards that need to look new, fresh and hip. Sometimes, you can even put in design elements that are very specific for a certain industry or field. For example, graphic artists can have a very artful and detailed business card while others can display shapes and logos that are related to their fields. As long as it looks like it carries with it a certain job or profession, this can be considered the professional look.

2.      The executive look – Now, on the more expensive side as well as the more formal one, we have the executive look. The executive style is marked by a more formal and simple style which is both elegant and respectable. Fancy metallic or glittering inks may also be used to convey the expensiveness of the business cards adding to its impact and respectability. Executive business cards are never too detailed or too arty unlike the previous style above. It is just a simple and functional look that aims to impress people with simplicity, respectability and subtle elegance.

3.      The honest and functional look – Next, if you strip down the executive look and make it look cheaper, it would probably look like the “functional” or “honest” business style of business card printing. These type of business cards are those no nonsense business cards that have been printed to be given away and function efficiently as a way to establish business contacts. Simple as that.

4.      The marketing style – Beyond simple business cards though, you can also try to print business cards with a marketing style. Marketing style business cards typically appear like a small brochure or flier itself. It can have an extra flap where the extra marketing message can be printed along with some pictures. This kind of business card is perfect especially for salesmen and other marketers who constantly need to meet people and advertise their products.

5.      The company banner – Finally we have the “company” style business card. These are the cards that look so proud for their company. It typically has the same color theme as the logo of its company, and will definitely include contact numbers for the company itself. Business cards like this are useful especially if you represent your company everyday to a myriad number of business contacts. It is not very personal, but at least it gives the company a good reputation.

So those are the common styles for business card looks. What do you want to choose? Depending on the goals of your business cards, you might want to consider just one of these styles to increase your effectiveness.

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26
Jun
2011

Design Tricks to Make Business Cards Look Trendy

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Want your business cards to look trendy? It is very easy! Let me give you a few great business card printing and design tricks that should make your business cards look more modern, current and of course trendy. Just follow some of the tips listed below as you create your designs. They should look very attractive and trendy once you start your business card printing.

• Gleams and reflections – One thing that I have learned in modern business cards today, is that they are increasingly adopting web design trends in their layouts. One design trick from the web that I see more and more in color business cards are “gleams and reflections”. Adding that gleam or reflection in the company logo or in the actual text of your business cards adds that fresh and popular design feel to your business card, much like the designs on Twitter and Facebook. They also add some emphasis on your design elements, making them look quite polished looking. So it is good to try out adding gleams and reflections to your business card design elements. Use them on your text and logos.

• Gradients and blending – Another great design trick to add to your business cards are color gradients and color blending. Today, you cannot just use one block color as the background for your business card. Color gradients and color blending is the trendier way to create the business card background because it gives a lot more of that dynamic and organic feel to the design. So do not just use a plain blue color for example. Use color gradients to slowly fade that blue to a darker blue, or a lighter blue, or even a yellow if you want. This adds that subtle variation that makes the business card look trendy and dynamic.

• Textures in the background – Textures are also a big thing in business card printing these days. Instead of a plain colored background some people like adding that texture to add personality to their designs. Adding material background texture effects such as satin, canvass or even rock and marble does add an extra impact to a business card, making them look different from the other business cards out there. So if you want that new, trendy but original look, you can try out using textures in your business card design background.

• Curves and soft elements – Another big trendy effect that many people use in their designs today are curves and soft elements. Gone are the days of hard edges and lines in business card designs. In fact, if you add a hard border today in your color business cards, you run the risk of looking boring and antiquated. That is why it is good to always use curves and other softer elements as design flourishes in your business cards. Use curvier borders, make your logos rounder, and try to add softer faded elements into your layout. This should help you create the right design that follows the popular design elements of today.

• Glossy finishes – Finally, when it comes to actually printing business cards, the trendiest thing you can do is to apply glossy finishes. Business cards with that professional gloss or gleam are pretty trendy today. That gloss and gleam makes the business card look pretty impressive, and it even helps prevent moisture or dirt damage as well. So always go for glossy finishes if you want your business cards to become trendy.

Great! Try those trendy business card design tricks now! You’ll never regret using fresh design concepts in your layouts. Trust me.

 

 

Lea Delaney is specializing in writing articles on a printing company. Try to check out this website for more information and tips about business cards, the best place to find online business card printing.


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11
Jul
2010

GetConnected – Tech Look – Neat Receipts Scanner

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Episode 6 – Segment 9 GetConnected hosts Mike Agerbo and Yolande Lougheed have fun with the Neat Receipts receipt scanner. Keep all of your receipts and business cards organized with this functional little scanner.

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02
Jul
2010

Take a Look at My (MOO) Card

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VEDA 14! Thanks YouTube and MOO for the rad business cards. What to do with them?! Get your own MOO cards! moo.com Blogged on MOO www.moo.com Be my friend on here: www.facebook.com www.twitter.com

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19
Jun
2010

How To Look For Free Business Card Templates

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Among the most effective marketing tools that you can use to promote a small business entity are business cards. In fact, most start up businesses would always have stacks of these prints and are using them as a form of introduction to potential and future clients. These prints will usually have the vital information of a business such as business name, address and contact information. But most importantly, these prints are also now being used in advertising or marketing certain products or brands.

For your business card prints to be effective, they should have great design and clear marketing message. This is where a talented graphic designer would come in handy. If you’re a know-how when it comes to designing print materials, there is no need for you to spend another portion of your budget to pay someone to design our prints. On the other hand, if you don’t know anything about design and can’t afford to pay a graphic artist, you still have another option – free business card templates. You can find lots of them online but if you don’t know how or where to start looking, here are few tips.

The first thing that you should do is to know what type and design of business card is best for your business and the products or services that you offer. You also need to think about your target audience or the people who will receive your cards. If your business is about trendy fashion apparels for teens, then your cards should sport a vibrant and cool design. Your prints should reflect the quality and value that you offer along with your product line.

When it comes to the question of where to look for these free business card templates, there are thousands of sources that you can visit online. Graphic design websites and forums usually offer free templates and designs. There are also those websites that aim to help small business in marketing that aggregates templates for various print materials including business cards. But the best place to look for free templates for your business cards is from online printing companies. They have various free templates that you can edit and use according to your needs.

It’s easy to look for free templates online since most websites have them arranged in categories. For example, if you need business cards for your dental clinic, you can browse templates that are designed for dentists.

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12
May
2010

How can I easily add gloss to a business card, at home, and still have it look professional?

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I am creating Purpose and Passion Cards, and would like to cut costs by doing the cards at home.

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04
May
2010

What’s the most effective way to look for a job?

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I miss the days when you could just walk into an office and the job was yours. I still think going into the building of a company is the best way, but it seems like when you do that, they won’t let you speak to their manager, and they/the receptionist immediately tell you to fill out an application on line. If you fill out an application on line, then you are just another number, not a face with a name, and you will be overlooked along with the other 100 people that filled out an application on line! Also, when I do it online, I usually notice that they want to know if you found their application through Monster.com, Career Builders.com, Jobs.com, etc. which means their applications are on several different web cites, meaning that your chance of getting that job is slim to none since everyone and their mama are filling them out, so instead of 100, make it 1000 or more; especially in this economy! One company I stopped in (that WAS hiring) even told me they weren’t aloud to give out their own business card with the web cite on it so that I COULD fill out the application on line!? I had to search for the web cite for an hour before I found it, and when I tried to call them the next week to check up with them, they told me that they weren’t even the location that was hiring and they couldn’t give me the number for it either b/c they weren’t aloud to, and they didn’t accept job calls anyway, and she was also snappy and short with me about it! This is so frustrating! It’s like whether I go in personally, or fill out applications online, I still won’t get a job! I’m starting to feel a little hopeless. Even the gas stations and McDonalds make you go online! What am I supposed to do??
By the way, recruiters need not answer this question, (and I know who you are; it’s absurdly obvious!). The last thing I want to hear about is some get rich quick scam, so please do not waste my time or send me your web cites. To all others, thanks for your help and keep it coming!!

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04
May
2010

What’s the most effective way to look for a job?

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I miss the days when you could just walk into an office and the job was yours. I still think going into the building of a company is the best way, but it seems like when you do that, they won’t let you speak to their manager, and they/the receptionist immediately tell you to fill out an application on line. If you fill out an application on line, then you are just another number, not a face with a name, and you will be overlooked along with the other 100 people that filled out an application on line! Also, when I do it online, I usually notice that they want to know if you found their application through Monster.com, Career Builders.com, Jobs.com, etc. which means their applications are on several different web cites, meaning that your chance of getting that job is slim to none since everyone and their mama are filling them out, so instead of 100, make it 1000 or more; especially in this economy! One company I stopped in (that WAS hiring) even told me they weren’t aloud to give out their own business card with the web cite on it so that I COULD fill out the application on line!? I had to search for the web cite for an hour before I found it, and when I tried to call them the next week to check up with them, they told me that they weren’t even the location that was hiring and they couldn’t give me the number for it either b/c they weren’t aloud to, and they didn’t accept job calls anyway, and she was also snappy and short with me about it! This is so frustrating! It’s like whether I go in personally, or fill out applications online, I still won’t get a job! I’m starting to feel a little hopeless. Even the gas stations and McDonalds make you go online! What am I supposed to do??
By the way, recruiters need not answer this question, (and I know who you are; it’s absurdly obvious!). The last thing I want to hear about is some get rich quick scam, so please do not waste my time or send me your web cites. To all others, thanks for your help and keep it coming!!

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04
May
2010

What’s the most effective way to look for a job?

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I miss the days when you could just walk into an office and the job was yours. I still think going into the building of a company is the best way, but it seems like when you do that, they won’t let you speak to their manager, and they/the receptionist immediately tell you to fill out an application on line. If you fill out an application on line, then you are just another number, not a face with a name, and you will be overlooked along with the other 100 people that filled out an application on line! Also, when I do it online, I usually notice that they want to know if you found their application through Monster.com, Career Builders.com, Jobs.com, etc. which means their applications are on several different web cites, meaning that your chance of getting that job is slim to none since everyone and their mama are filling them out, so instead of 100, make it 1000 or more; especially in this economy! One company I stopped in (that WAS hiring) even told me they weren’t aloud to give out their own business card with the web cite on it so that I COULD fill out the application on line!? I had to search for the web cite for an hour before I found it, and when I tried to call them the next week to check up with them, they told me that they weren’t even the location that was hiring and they couldn’t give me the number for it either b/c they weren’t aloud to, and they didn’t accept job calls anyway, and she was also snappy and short with me about it! This is so frustrating! It’s like whether I go in personally, or fill out applications online, I still won’t get a job! I’m starting to feel a little hopeless. Even the gas stations and McDonalds make you go online! What am I supposed to do??
By the way, recruiters need not answer this question, (and I know who you are; it’s absurdly obvious!). The last thing I want to hear about is some get rich quick scam, so please do not waste my time or send me your web cites. To all others, thanks for your help and keep it coming!!

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