I was reminded this weekend of something important: Always have your business cards on you.
My husband and I were going to a holiday party at the house of one of our friends. The last thing I thought would come up was business, so it never even occurred to make sure I had business cards on me. Plus, between the two of us, one of us usually had a card or so on hand.
So boy were we caught off guard when the host was telling some friends about our business, and they were asking about the website and the URL, and we realized we didn’t have a business card to give them! We hope that they remembered the name, but let’s face it, it was 11pm on a Saturday night, so who knows if they will remember!
If we had the business cards on us, we might have gotten a whole bunch of new people to stop by and join the site! The fact that we had many business cards just sitting in our house (less than 10 minutes away) only made it worse.
So I just want to remind everyone, especially during this holiday season where you will probably see more people then usual, always make sure you have your business cards on you! Don’t have any you say? There are 2 quick ways to get them.
The first is to use Vistaprint. They offer 250 free business cards, you just have to pay shipping.
The great part about them is you can easily make a very professional looking business card in under 5 minutes. You can choose from many different designs, and write whatever you would like in the text.
The only negative (if it bothers you) is that on the back of the card, it does say Vistaprint.com on it. Truthfully though, who cares? For free business cards, I don’t mind if it has their website in small print on the back on my business cards. Plus, not many people look at the back – and if they do, they’ll just know where I got the cards.
I have business cards from them, and really like them. They look like they were professionally designed, and I am proud to give them out to advertise my business. Plus, 250 cards is a lot, so you will always have them when you need them!
If you want more control over your card though, and want to design every little part, you can always go to Staples/Office Depot/Etc and buy blank business cards. You can then go home, find some software to design your own, and print them out. This is great if you want to do something that is a little different, and if you want to have your business cards that day!
No matter how you get them though, just make sure you always have a few with you. You never know when it will come up and you could get new business, just because you had your card on you!
