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| laurenperry99 | Posted – 5/12/2007 10:40:36 PM | show profile | email poster If you need a biz card I'm a former creative director at a magazine, doing some freelance work of my own. If anyone is interested in getting a unique business card designed for a fair price, give me a shout: shinylightdesigns@yahoo.com |
| bsterner | Posted – 5/14/2007 11:38:26 AM | show profile | email poster business cards Patronize a local print shop if possible instead of an Internet-based vendor. A local printer can provide advice after seeing 1000s of b-cards. Cards are all about social interaction, so let it begin with the print order. Who knows, the conversation may wend to customers who could use your services. |
| bsterner | Posted – 5/14/2007 11:38:35 AM | show profile | email poster business cards Patronize a local print shop if possible instead of an Internet-based vendor. A local printer can provide advice after seeing 1000s of b-cards. Cards are all about social interaction, so let it begin with the print order. Who knows, the conversation may wend to customers who could use your services. |
| writesonwater | Posted – 5/14/2007 11:46:56 AM | show profile | email poster I generally patronize local businesses wherever possible, but generally local printers job out the raised cards many people are used to or the full-color ones I like, and hike up their prices accordingly. Additionally, at Vistaprint or Overnight prints, to name a few, I can take the time and design the card I want, whereas a local printer does not want me looking over their shoulder while a card gets designed. They are often looking to provide as standard a service as possible, to minimize time and maximize profit. At Kinko's, when I was a graphic designer there, we did two things: jobbed-out raised print cards -- which we just charged the customer 2x as much for as might be expected, as any printer will do -- and ones we designed for them and ran on cardstock. The trouble with the ones we designed was the cutting process, putting them 12-up and then making a series of cuts that made it virtually impossible to get them perfectly centered. Cutting was generally the Achilles heel there, but trying to cut 12 little cards out of a stack of 8.5x11 cardstock? Vicious. I myself, as a business person, later designed my own 12-up card, using the copy-step-repeat formula they use, and took it in to Kinkos for printing and cutting. It had to be run twice, and still wasn't exactly perfect. For a quick fix, it had to do. |
| ninian.reid | Posted – 5/14/2007 1:13:07 PM | show profile The Pitfalls Of High Visibility Business cards can be a real pain. Use them judiciously and only give out your business e-mail address. Alternatively , say goodbye to home life. My best contacts over the years got back to me with a number scribbled down on the back of a utility bill or some such scrap of unwanted paper. |
| writesonwater | Posted – 5/14/2007 1:47:59 PM | show profile | email poster And you can always get THEIR business card or number or call them. When I worked at Kinko's I had the most exclusive hotel in town call and ask for business cards to be hustled up for a famous guest who was staying there to make a movie, a sort of comp for that person who hadn't requested them. I walked the project through myself - the hotel logo, not too large, the name of the actor, discreet 10 pt. italics, the hotel's number and addy. Cream stock, as I recall. I knew two things perfectly well: anyone who had a legitimate in to the actor would have his contact info/agent/manager, whatever; and that the hotel was hoping that he might use the calling card in any way and give the hotel added exposure and cachet. Darned if we didn't have to rerun them twice because of trouble cutting them! I hand delivered them myself -- to the concierge ... However, if you're at the point in your career where you can't yet say "Don't call us, we'll call you" and you'd love to have your phone ring more often for business/assignments, a card is a necessary evil ;) I see cards people produce on their own printers all the time -- generally fine for a home plumbing business, but very often you can tell they're homemade (not always). Cutting's always a b**ch. |
| ManhattanMatt | Posted – 5/14/2007 2:33:24 PM | show profile My two cents ... ...if I may plug the local stationers in NYC. There are plenty of places in the high teens and low 20s between 5th and 7th Avenues that do amazingly creative and original work. Yes, the Vistaprints and other Internet-based companies will save you some money, but if YOU are your BUSINESS, for the cost of couple extra movie tickets you can have cards made that will REALLY make an impression, like a decorator's card made to look and feel like shag carpeting, or a musician's card made from clear plastic that looks like a piece of an old vinyl record. |
| kristindiva | Posted – 5/20/2007 1:42:21 PM | show profile | email poster Local NYC business card/stationery? Can anyone recommend a good shop here that could design and print a good quality business card? I'm new to Manhattan and want to make a very good first impression with my business card. Thanks! |
| biztips | Posted – 5/20/2007 3:17:19 PM | show profile | email poster Here are Business Card Printer Reviews - current 5/07 Hi, first post! I'm a Business Card Expert and author of "Business Card Breakthroughs". I just released a review of online business card printers to my ezine subscribers - read it at http://www.businesscarddesign.com/business-card-printer-reviews.html. I do NOT recommend Vistaprint - there's a link on that page explaining why - and I also explain who my favorite online printer is, and why. My site also has business card taglines on it... http://www.businesscarddesign.com/taglines.html Diana Ratliff http://www.BusinessCardDesign.com http://www.Bizbooklets.com http://www.BizCardGuru.com |
