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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Custom Print Calendars
Custom print calendars are the perfect excuse for your company to hold a bikini contest or get cozy with the hunks at the local fire department; you can fill your calendar with pics of smokin’ hot women or men and sell them for charitable causes or just give them out as promo items. You can also decorate each month with children’s art for a more PG-13 custom calendar.
But let’s back up and talk about the basics here. Elite Flyers’ wall calendars are the size of a standard sheet of paper and are printed on ...
Wrist Band Printing
Elite Flyers is based in Miami, a known party city that has a disproportionately high need for wristbands. Many of the hottest clubs and festivals on the scene utilize custom-printed wristbands as a means of identifying people who have paid an entry fee – or people who have reached the legal drinking age – and people who haven’t. We’ve helped countless businesses make use of this simple tool, and we’ve learned a few things about successful wristband printing and use, and we’re going to share this useful ...
Print Booklets for Fun and Profit
Creative people have a great outlet for expression in custom printed booklets. Citizen journalists, creative writers, visual artists, and experts wishing to share their unique knowledge can all make use of booklets for personal or profitable endeavors.
Elite Flyers’ booklets come in two sizes – 8.5”x11”, or full-page size, and 5.5”x8” half-page size. You can choose a page count from 8 to 32, in increments of four, for either size. The print stock is also customizable. One hundred-pound dull book stock is a ...
Five Free Resources for Business Card Design
We can’t all be graphic designers, but even the least tech-savvy among us has at his or her fingertips the resources necessary to design a simple and effective business card. Thanks to the magic of the interweb and people a lot more into computers than we are, it’s now easy to get all the tools necessary to design a great business card and send it to the printers on the cheap. Here are a few key resources to help you get the job done.
Free business card maker and ...
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 ...
What Colors Mean in Your Business Cards and More
Choosing colors for your business cards and other marketing materials should not be an arbitrary process. Color does more than any other design element in creating a mood or effect in the materials you present to the world as reflections of your business or yourself.
So what colors should you incorporate in your designs? Well, it depends on your intention. Let’s take a look at some common colors and the messages they send to your potential audience.
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Yellow:
Happiness (think the ...
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 ...
Five Unusual Promo Items to Boost Your Biz
It’s a universal truth: people love free stuff. People even get excited about stuff they would never buy if you offer it to them for free. Look at the success of huge corporations like Costco. And what’s the first thing customers of the superstore will mention when you bring up the company name? That’s right: the free samples that are always circulating around the place. People get excited by generosity, and this fuels repeat business.
So what does this mean to you? Chances are, your company isn’t Costco, and ...
Four Things Every Good Logo Must Be and Do
In this economy, where traditional jobs are harder and harder to come by, more and more people are turning to entrepreneurship as a means of generating income. This can be both frightening and exciting, but you can maximize your fun as a business owner by seeking advice from people who have traveled the road before you. YouTube videos can help you design a simple website, entrepreneurial blogs can help you pack your page with useful SEO words, and affordable software programs can help you manage your finances. ...
