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Postcards and EDDM Marketing Boost Your Small Business
LOL, BRB, LMAO, and now EDDM… WTF? Don’t be alarmed that there’s now another acronym creeping into mainstream vocabulary. EDDM is as simple to understand as any of the above-mentioned abbreviations. Well, kind of. It stands for “Every Door Direct Mail,” and it’s a relatively new service from the United States Postal Service that allows you to hit everyone in a certain zip code with a marketing mailer for your business at a reduced per-piece postage cost. EDDM is an excellent choice for some small businesses ...
Linen Business Cards Bring a Touch of Sophistication – Cheap!
Linen is one of the signature fabrics of Elite Flyer’s hometown – Miami Beach, Florida. We may now operate on a global scale, but we still cling to our South Florida roots, and our choice to offer linen business cards may have something to do with that.
South Beach is known for its sleek style and impeccable taste when it comes to fashion, and linen, with its naturally luxurious appearance – fits right into this hip beachy groove. Somewhat casual, totally stylish, eye-catching, and tasteful, linen is one of ...
Silver or Gold Foil Stamped Business Cards
In some ways, humans are not much more evolved than flies. For one, both people and bugs are attracted to shiny objects. Take Elite Flyers' foil stamping process for example. It doesn't matter if you're a Harvard-educated lawyer or a teenage girl who loves scribbling "I heart One Direction" on your spiral-bound notebooks; shiny foil-stamped business cards are bound to capture and hold your attention more effectively than plain paper business cards any day of the week.
Foil stamping is pretty much exactly what ...
How to Make the Most of Your Online Printing Company
When it comes to printing business cards, flyers, booklets, or even magazines, there are a ton of options out there, and many of them are relatively low-cost. This is because most of the larger online printing companies have wised up and are using the same gang-run print process that their competitors are using. This gang-run process means that an online printing company can run several jobs on the same machine at the same time, minimizing waste, time, and resources (like ink) so they can offer customers an ...
How to Use Stickers for Inexpensive Promotion
Next to eye-catching T-shirts, hot sticker designs are probably the most coveted marketing item you can create – especially if you’re trying to draw attention to your band, venue, art, or charitable cause. The great advantage stickers have over clothing is that they cost about 1/90th of the price to produce. But what makes for a good sticker design? What ventures go well with sticker promotion? Here are some ideas to get you started.
Small and simple vinyl stickers
Next time you’re cruising around, ...
Silk Laminated Business Cards – the Tuxedo of the Business Card World
When you want to make a great impression at a party, one surefire way is to drape yourself in luxurious fabrics like velvet, linen, cashmere, or best of all, silk. Silk is known for its delicate and smooth texture, its sophisticated, half matte, half shiny appearance, its cool, natural feel against the skin, and its luxurious appeal. This simple fabric does so much to add elegance and style to your body. Imagine if you could bring that same effortless style and class to other aspects of your life… like, for ...
6 Tips for Printing Custom Letterheads
There’s a big difference between writing business correspondence on a plain piece of paper and putting your words on stationery that’s anchored by your business’s official logo and info. There’s an air of authenticity you can achieve with official stationery that’s simply lacking on unadorned 8.5x11. It may seem silly, but it’s inarguably true. Letterheads make correspondence seem more legit, whether you’re a doctor, a florist, or a salesman.
Almost every professional can agree on this point, and many ...
Night Club Flyer Printing with EliteFlyers.com
At Elite Flyers, our high quality flyer printing is what gave us our name. We started out catering to the many party promoters on Miami Beach who needed flyers printed to advertise special nightclub events on South Beach’s ever-hopping club scene. Printing these nightclub flyers soon brought us to produce many other custom-printed products, but we still pride ourselves on printing the most affordable, superior-quality flyers on the market. Our loyal flyer-printing customers in the world of nightlife and beyond ...
Unique Business Cards
Having a business card in itself does not make you unique. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t use your business card design as an opportunity to stand out from the crowd. And thanks to innovative and affordable unique business card design options, you can now get a lot more creative than simply setting your name and title to the right of the card instead of the center or the left. Here we’ll look at several of Elite Flyers’ unique business card offerings and some
suggestions for making them work for you and ...
5 Business Card Design Ideas
A stand-out business card can capture people’s attention long enough to inspire them to actually call you. There are no stats available on responses to cool business cards vs. lame business cards, but as pros in the printing business, we constantly get feedback from clients who see a higher response rate when they put more thought and creativity into their business card design.
Here are a few easy-to-do design ideas to get you started on improving your card design.
1. Print the design on the front of your ...
Use Basic Color Theory to Make Your Business Card Pop
Not everyone is a born Picasso or Rembrandt, but everyone CAN learn basic artistic principles that can enhance the appearance of any design project. Here, we’ll talk about how you can use basic knowledge of the color wheel to make your business card more appealing to the eye, more likely to attract its recipient’s sustained attention, and therefore more likely to be an effective call to action.
Complementary Colors
Complementary colors are colors that are direct opposites of one another. A pair of ...
How Important Is Your Website? We Ask One Picky Consumer.
Any idiot who owns a computer can answer this question with confidence. The correct response is: It’s mega-important! According to Google research, 81 percent of people say they look online before they purchase goods or services. If you haven’t put much time into making your website informative, attractive, and user-friendly, one of two things will happen when customers are shopping online for a good or service you offer.
They won’t find you. If your site has not been search engine optimized, chances ...
