Before You Start
What business cards can do for your business?
Business cards are very important as a marketing advertising tool. Business cards contain the design that reflects the image of your corporation and your activities.
Business cards are a long lasting advertisement and enable your clients to find you and remind your customers about your services at any time. Just open your wallet and find out how long people’s business cards are kept in your wallet. Some are kept for weeks, months even years, this is what business cards are for.
Business Card Wording
The space on your business card should be used wisely and correctly. So don’t waste the wording or design. Don’t make your business card ineffective and costly through lack of design or proper thought.
The best advice about business cards for unknown corporations and brands is to mention the services the business provides. When we look at a business card in our wallet we often forget why we got the card and from whom and what services the company provided. When we no longer recall why we took a business card from someone the card often ends up in the trash.
That is why it is so important to have image on your business card that accurately reflects the type of services you offer. It is the most important idea to help people to memorize what is your services are about.
Information that should be on the business card:
- Company name
- Services provided
- Company logo
- Name
- Position
- Telephone
- Fax
- Cell
- Website
- P.O.Box
- Address
Most businesses only use the front of the business card. A business card is used for information and marketing as well. Has your business received special awards? Do you grant special promotions to first-time buyers? Find pertinent information to place on the back of your business card.
Business Cards Sizes
First of all you must be sure your business card size is not greater than 90 mm x 55 mm as this is the maximum size to fit most wallets and most business card holders otherwise the card ends up in the trash.
The recommended sizes for business cards are: 90mmx55 mm, 90mmx50 mm, 80mmx55 mm, 80mmx50 mm, 80mmx40 mm, 70mmx40 mm.
Business Cards Designing
If you chose to design your own business card in full color print you should consider the following ideas:
- Size your work space on the design program with the sizes mentioned above.
- Resolution must be at 300 Pixels/Inch or 480 pixels/cm.
- Color mode must be set to CMYK, 8 bit color from the conception of the work.
- Borders must be at least ¼ inch.
- Save your work as PSD format "photoshop" or Tiff and compress it then email it to us.
*CMYK are the standard colors for printing, RGB is digital color view for computer or TV.
*300 dpi required for quality printing resolution.
Business Card Types
Only business card is play ground, mean its available to go in multi colors options, multi printing option, edges cutting option and shape look options.
From this point we offer business card types solution to chose from what to match your business.
Standard business card: This is regular basic business card that not contain any designs or creative idea or eye attractive factors.
Nonstandard business card : which mean its go for every thing that is not standard as in business card unusual shape and edges, very creative design, business card material, printing methods, colors and fold types.
Picture business card : As study show that human memorize pictures more than text by 70% here a place for picture business card that can contain related picture to your business or your personal picture.
Multi purpose business card: business cards with calendar on the back side we don't believe its still good idea as multi purpose business card as ruler business card! ask us to go ahead for designing your business card and we will come with something wow to you.