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Business Cards for Photographers
Put yourself in the shoes of your potential client. You’ve met her while at an art gallery opening. You’re comparing the paint splatters on the abstract piece in front of you to the expressive splotches made by the late Jackson Pollack. It turns out that your conversation partner is also an artist, but she hasn’t been able to gain much exposure because she has yet to put together a really professional portfolio. You, an accomplished photographer, reach for your business card at just the right moment, telling ...
Spring Break Flyers That Grab Attention
You’re walking up the beach and suddenly you see throngs of stumbling people wearing ripped clothing and screaming unintelligibly. You wonder whether you’ve just stumbled upon the Zombie Apocalypse, until you realize the almost-as-scary truth: It’s spring break again.
In Miami Beach (South Beach) and Panama City, Florida, and in California hotspots like Los Angeles and San Francisco, college kids will soon be finding the beach and losing their minds for uninterrupted party vacations that range from a few days ...
Online Printing Company Launches Total Blog Redesign
World-wide, February 21, 2013 --- At EliteFlyers.com the online printing company, one of our main aims is to support businesses as they evolve and grow. We do this by supplying them with superior printed marketing materials to announce exciting changes and initiatives they make. Like our valued customers, we too are constantly improving so that we may better serve our clients and the global community in an ever-growing number of ways. And this week, that means we are giving our useful and popular blog a ...
Use Miami’s Ultra Music Festival to Your Business’s Advantage
Business owners who have experienced Ultra Music Festival week in the past may be tempted to roll their eyes thinking about the droves of teens, young adults, and crazy grown party people who will be in town for the events, but it’s an undeniable fact that these electronic music-loving tourists will be dropping mad loot in our city during the two weekends it will occupy this year. That’s right: the fest this year is double the music, double the fun. The first party weekend starts Friday, March 15 and spans ...
Foil Stamping Vs. Full-Color Foil Printing
There are numerous specialty printing techniques available in today’s innovative print world. Each one was developed for the purpose of giving printing customers design options that would set their finished customized print products apart. To make each process more useful and marketable, print companies also strive to make these techniques cost-effective while still maintaining a high level of quality. Competition among print companies has driven this innovation further and faster, to the point where customers ...
CMYK vs RGB Color
If you weren’t born in the year 2000 or later and acronym-overloads tend to make your head spin, you may be interested in a breakdown of two popular abbreviated terms in the printing world: CMYK and RGB.
Both CMYK and RGB are acronyms that stand for modes of color use in design and in printing. CMYK stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black (the people who came up with the acronym used “K” instead of “B” for black to avoid confusion with the “B” for blue in RGB), whereas RGB represents Red, Green, and ...
How Postcards Can Help Realtors
Just get your real estate license? Congratulations, so did just about everyone else we know! We’re just kidding --- real estate can be a very profitable field to work in, but, as you undoubtedly know, having a license is not a guarantee to overnight success. Real estate is one of those fields where you make your own destiny, and while we can’t predict exactly what that destiny will look like, we can guarantee you one thing: If you don’t make any noise about yourself and let people know you’re the new realty ...
Design Valentine’s Day Business Cards and Flyers They’ll LOVE
Whether you look to Valentine’s Day as a once-a-year opportunity to celebrate romance, or you think of it as a nagging reminder of the loneliness of the world, there is no debate about one thing – it’s definitely an excellent opportunity to make money. From the five-year-old looking to wow his kindergarten classmates with the very best candies and cardboard Valentine’s Day cards, to the shy guy-next-door desperate to finally make his affections known, everyone is eager to fork over their hard-earned salary (or ...
Find a Printer
Anyone who knows how to touch a computer keyboard has the capacity to find a good printer these days. There are a host of print companies at your disposal, whether you live in Miami Beach, Florida or Juno, Alaska. Albernett, Iowa? Yes, we have you covered too, even though your population is only 548 (547 after little Susy-Ann Miller goes off to college next week!). No, in this wonderful age of the internet, there is a printer ready to serve you wherever you are, at the push of a button.
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Tips for Banner Design and Printing
Unless you’re trying to run some secretive underground nightclub, your business needs some kind of marking to let potential guests know it’s there. In choosing how to broadcast your name to the public, there are a few different options. You can have a custom sign painted or printed. These can cost a pretty penny, and they’re often very heavy and immobile – they’ll generally be affixed to the wall on the outside of your establishment. This is great if you have a big business that’s completely stationary. But if ...
Foil Stamped Business Cards with Silk Lamination
It doesn’t matter how high your IQ is. Everyone – smart, dumb, young, and old – likes shiny things. As humans, our eyes just gravitate toward light, and there’s no exception when it comes to business cards that have a little flash.
Foil stamped business cards are quite literally flashy. The foil stamping process is completely different from metallic ink printing, and the innovative procedure makes it much more affordable as a premium business card printing option.
In fact, foil stamping doesn’t use any ink ...
Event Flyer Printing
So you’re having an event, and you’re so excited about it, you want to shout it from the rooftops. But no matter how excited you are, trust us, there is no worse way to attract people to your party than to shout from a roof like a deranged lunatic. Instead, consider a tried and true method of letting people know you’re having a shindig. No, we don’t mean that you should become a wandering singing minstrel. Just print a flyer for chrissake!
If printing an event flyer sounds like a good idea to you, you will be ...
