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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 ...
Make Your Personal Facebook Page Work for Your Business
Along with ordering your brand new business cards, one of the first steps in starting a new business is creating a successful Facebook business page. Many business owners have seen the power of manning a successful FB page – more clients, higher Google ranking, and more buzz, all at no cost. When you’re just getting started, this might mean that you have to work on TWO Facebook pages – your business page and your personal page. I mean, who is more likely to support your business than your friends? Here’s some ...
How to Lose Weight at Work
The average workplace is a breeding ground for F.I.P.s – that’s “fatties in progress.” You’re sitting all day, often doing monotonous tasks that leave you plenty of time to daydream about – and act on – cravings for sugary, fatty foods. Oftentimes, well-meaning, roly-poly co-workers will bring in boxes of pastries loaded with white flour, white sugar, and tons of shortening, making it oh-so-easy to eat the foods you know you should never go near.
Why is it important to stay slim? Other than the obvious ...
Bring Class Back to the Club with These Promotion Tips
“Yo, you goin’ out tonight?” says the typical club promoter, scouring the sands of South Beach looking for pretty ladies to fill up space in club X, Y, or Z. He hands his targets sweaty, wrinkled flyers which they promptly shove under their towels or beach chairs as they wait for the promoter to stop blocking their sun.
We don’t have any statistics on how effective this kind of marketing is, but we have our suspicions. The presentation is far from sexy… in fact, the word “desperate” seems more apt. No one ...
6 Tips for Gaining More Clients
At the risk of sounding like Sally Struthers, we’re going to say it anyway: “Do you want to make more money? Sure, we all do.” If you’re an individual or small business who offers a product or service, you may sometimes get frustrated about an inconsistent stream of clients, but there are things you can do to build your customer base, grow your business, and of course increase your profits. Here are six methods that really work.
Always Be Growing
Some service professionals can get so wrapped up in ...
Choosing a Printer
Okay, we’re printers, so of course we think you should choose us for all your printing needs. But we’re also real people who like to be helpful, so we want to offer up some truly useful advice that will fill you with confidence when you’re choosing a printer from among the million or so companies competing for your business today.
Decide what you need from your printer.
Is your objective simply to get a stack of functional business cards, without consideration for quality? Do you want a high impact ...
3-D Business Cards Are All the Rage
In recent years, 3-D movies have proven themselves to be far from a resurrected fad. It’s now clear that the technology has earned lasting love and has even become the preferred way to watch movies, not just for kids but for adults, too. The latest superhero movies and end-of-the-world films are obvious forums for displaying the technology, but now even arthouse and indie films are putting the technique to work. Audiences are intrigued by 3-D, and some companies have figured out ways to bring 3-D optics to ...
How to Edit Your Own Flyers and Business Cards
We run a printing company, so every month we receive hundreds of business card and flyer designs that range from outrageous to extremely conservative. But whether your design includes a flaming skull holograph or a clean white background with a Times New Roman font, one element of all print projects is universally important: Correctness.
That means correct grammar, style, and spelling. We can’t tell you how many designs we get where the client has paid the utmost attention to detail on the graphic design of ...
Networking Opportunities in Your Hometown
Seeing as we’re in the business card business, we often have conversations with customers about how their companies are doing. We’re always happy to hear about ventures that are flourishing, but we always pay special attention when clients are having trouble as well. One common complaint goes something like this:
“We’ve got such a great service in place. I just wish we could reach more of the right people.”
Businesses often try to do this by directly sending out emails or social networking communications ...
Give a Great “Elevator Pitch” to Go with Your Business Card
“Concise.” It’s arguably one of the greatest words in the English language. Its definition is “expressing or covering much in few words.” That’s a beautiful thing.
And it’s what you should strive for when you make the elevator pitch that should accompany your handing out your business card. An elevator pitch should take no longer than an elevator ride – somewhere around 30 seconds. That’s all you should need in order to tell an interested party what it is that you do, and why you’re great at it. Whew! Here’s ...
Beyond the Internet: How to Broaden Your Business’ Reach in the Real World
There are a million ways to drive more people to your business’s website. But in our experience, some of the most important business connections stem from real-life, in-person interactions with other human beings… not cold, hard-wired machines. Here are some tips for actively improving your chances of making headway in business through your daily interactions.
1. Talk about work all the time
We know, this may sound horrible. There is nothing worse than people who drone on about boring projects they’re ...
Developing a Successful Business Card Speech
If you want people to actually act on your card, you’re going to have to talk to them while you give it out. Yes, this applies even if you have a gorgeous foil-stamped card or a thought-provoking see-thru plastic card.
We know. Giving a speech is typically a stressful event for everyone. Self-promotion is also often uncomfortable for many people. So business card speeches, which combine the two, can be even more of a challenge. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Use our handy tips to simplify the process of ...
