Be Noticed! by:Florie Lyn Masarate

With business cards, that is

With business cards, that is. They are one of the most powerful weapons in marketing your business or company is through the use of your business cards.

Many people have not been using their cards effectively in making them achieve some results and sales to their site and business. With the many people using their business cards as a marketing tool nowadays, there is no guarantee that yours is the ones that they will notice.

How do you make them stand out and be the important tool that they are?

Use full color printing. Full color printing was expensive before but not anymore. With the many printing companies offering full color printing, you can already an inexpensive printer that give high quality prints. Prices now have dropped because of the abundance and stiff competitions.

Have a tagline. This is a one-sentence benefit statement. Just pretend that you are writing an ad for a newspaper or a billboard. Sine you only have a limited space to write your tag on, think of something that can describe best what you want to say. This will likely catch the attention of the ones reading your cards.

Put a picture on your cards. Studies have shown that people have the tendency to keep business cards with a photo on it. It could be a picture of you, your products. Better if it's a combination of them both. Putting on a picture is highly recommended because they get attention.

Do not use business card templates. There are many websites offering already-made business card designs that are called templates. The problem with using them is that many people may have used them already. Thus, using them on yours will make your business cards appear just like everyone else's. So much for standing out.

Let a professional do the designs. It will take a lot of time if you will be designing your card yourself. And chances are, you would not be happy at the results. Leave the designing to the professionals and let them do their work. You do your part in selling the product and service.

Try to follow these tips and see the change in the result it will give you. Sometimes trying out different styles and techniques, even though risky, can bring more positive than negative results.

Try to find the ones which will work out for you and make the most of what business cards can do.

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About the author

Florie Lyn Masarate got the flair for reading and writing when she got her first subscription of the school newsletter in kindergarten. She had her first article published on that same newsletter in the third grade.

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