7 Tips for making your business card a memorable one!!

As a designer I would like to pass on some tips in making your business card look appealing and catchy.

Business cards are an essential way to show your blog or online shop. Don’t negletct this fact. Of course you can use an online business, like vistaprint.com but if you have already created your blog logo or shop logo, you better make sure to keep the same house style. In this case you could easily design it yourself.

Here are 7 tips to make your business card a memorable one.... after the jump:

1. Use standard dimensions:           

_8.5cm x 5.5cm (3.35inch x 2.17 inch), in Europe this is the most common one as it has the same size as a credit card and can easily fit in someone’s purse.

_ or 9cm x 5cm (3.54inch x 1.97inch)

2. Add your logo and work in the same atmosphere / colors as your online blog or shop, to create a strong brand identity

3. Accompany your logo with a short tagline

A tagline comes in handy if your logo is not expressing clearly what you are doing or selling.

Like this next time someone takes out your card, the slogan will help people to remember what you sell or blog about.

  

4. Do not forget to Include your blog /website address and your email address

Do add one email address relevant to your blog or online shop.

The same for phone numbers, add just one to make things more clear for everyone.

5. Make your card readable Use simple fonts and font sizes that are big enough to be easily readable without using a magnifying glass. Be sure the type color stands out against the background of the card, too. Your goal isn't to produce a work of art. It's to produce a business card that clearly communicates what you do and how to reach you.

6. Have your business cards printed on good card-stock.

The best of course is to let it print professionally but if this is not the case make sure your print quality is high enough and you are using proper card paper, to express quality in every sense of the word.

7. Why not add a QR code?

This last tip is not a must but it could show you are up-to-date with the latest technologies and trends. You could use the back of your business card to integrate a QR code from your shop or blog. So many people, worldwide,  are using smartphones, a QR code might facilitate the initial access to your shop or blog without typing in your URL.

I have found this website where you type your blog’s or shop’s URL and it will give you a QR code that you can easily download and integrate at the back of your business card.

http://qrcode.littleidiot.be/

Check it out:  

Good luck!!!

Alex

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FREE Giveaway!! I have passed the 50!!! -:)

No, no, no, this is not my age, but as some of you might know I have opened my Etsy shop 2 months ago and I have been working hard to stock up my shop and I have now reached 50 items with which I am very pleased.

I have to admit, Etsy seems such an easy place to start your business when you are designer and want to show your creations to the world. Indeed it is easy to start but it is not so easy to get found as the customer gets overwhelmed with other amazing products on this site.

I will keep you informed about my endeavors on the Etsy platform. At the moment it is all still exciting in the hope it will pick up one day soon.  :-)

HOW TO ENTER:

Well, to celebrate I have reached 50 items I would like to offer to one blogger a FREE HEADBAND with FREE SHIPPING, from my headband section in my shop. A headband of his/her choice. Leave a comment here, and tell me what is your favorite fashion accessory!!!!
Make sure I can contact you, if you are the winner, by leaving an email, website etc. (the winner will be chosen randomly). You can leave a comment from now till January 23rd and the winner will be announced on January 24th 2013. GOOD LUCK!!!



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Dear Diary...How Do You Like My Underwear?

Well folks we knew this type of underwear was out there, it was just a matter of time before He found it. If the real Vajazzle costs too much, guess you can always go with the underwear, not sure its the same sexy affect, but hey so is life. Guess these are humorous underwear, not original or overly sexy, but still good for a small ha ha.
-He

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The Most Disturbing FbyHe Post Ever...

Browsing through Etsy the other day and came across these Congratulations Mrs.... its a Girl Cranberry fingerless gloves and almost lost it. Are these not the most repulsive things ever made? He gives a lot of people who can hand make stuff, more power to them, He is not gonna even start to try and sew these type of things together, but then again maybe the person who made these should put down the sewing machine as well. Not a fan of these, who would be, but the Etsy designer has a lot more fingerless gloves to choose from, unfortunately the ones featured above are the most stomach churning.
-He

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