Your business card is often the first impression a potential client has with your company. The business card design and message will ultimately determine whether it gets thrown in the trash or filed for contact later.
Stop for a second, find your wallet and pull out your business card – take a good look at it, think about how it looks from a potential client’s perspective. But then again what makes a good business card?
Business card design has been a recent hot topic on the Free Business Tips Forum, with member’s business cards being viewed and critiqued by other members.
The Free Business tips forum has recently hit a new milestone with its 200th member being registered on Friday morning. With the growth and activity of the forum it is an excellent place to discuss your small business needs with other people in the same boat as you.
One of the most interesting threads lately for me has been the discussion of how to use promotional pens to benefit a website design business. Although the question was targeted at the designers on the forum, the creative ideas that came in could be used to improve the promotion of any business. Steve Gray came up with probably my favourite suggestion, when he said:
“Its all about the relationship, so use creative ways to use the pen to build the relationship. connect your business card to it on a string and make up a caption you would say when delivering it.”
“When you’ve got an idea for a website write it down, then call Me.”
“Pens are useful, then again so is a well designed website…”
The forum has been such a great tool for me to network with other small business owners, to feed off their knowledge to improve my business. If you are not already a member of the forum we would love to see you join!
Author Information:
Thomas Sinfield is the founder of the website design agency WebPros, based on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. WebPros provides small to medium businesses with professional websites, with a focus on quality and highest level of customer service and support.
