Comments on: How to Brand Your Business Card | Creating an Extraordinary Business Card

By: Maren Kate

Maren Kate — Sun, 02 May 2010 02:49:29 +0000

I agree I just made new ones again to spice things up!

By: thecoolestcool

thecoolestcool — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:07:08 +0000

I was sitting around the bar with another local entrepreneur this week discussing the importance of business cards. He's been in the business much longer than I have but was very impressed when I pulled out my card. I was determined, when designing it that it wouldn't be something that people just threw away. I designed the card so it was see through and was a card worth talking about. To my surprise, he had the same philosophy when design his cards! They were made out of wood with a gold/foiled typography on the front and back.

I think its extremely important to come up with a solid design for your card! When I receive paper cards I typically take down the info and put it in my contact book. However, when I come across a card that is special – It goes on my bulletin board.

By: Maren Kate

Maren Kate — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:54:27 +0000

I love it because it looks like an air freshener and you can hang it from your car!

By: Nimit kashyap

Nimit kashyap — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:07:26 +0000

good designs, specially the green one

By: Tanner @LifeDestiny.net

Tanner @LifeDestiny.net — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:14:06 +0000

I did not get them yet, I just placed a sample order at Moo.com to see how they look just to test it out first.

By: Maren Kate

Maren Kate — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:42:03 +0000

What are your new ones like Tanner? I've gotten some great ideas from the comments alone on this blog post so I'll have to be re-doing mine soon too!

By: Maren Kate

Maren Kate — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:41:09 +0000

Boy that is an AWESOME idea!! I am going to have to give that some serious thought because I can see it in my mind & I love the idea… very, very unique.

By: Maren Kate

Maren Kate — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:40:23 +0000

Yep good point… it is very dependent on your over all marketing strategy.

Cheers!

By: Tanner @LifeDestiny.net

Tanner @LifeDestiny.net — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:26:33 +0000

You beat me to it Maren! I was going to write a post on awesome business cards since I just ordered some and ran into a ton of really unique and “stand outish” type cards.

By: Abe

Abe — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:53:46 +0000

the www.meatcards.com hyperlink on the post is dead.

By: jasonclegg

jasonclegg — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:51:55 +0000

Cool post. Love the photos.

I would suggest just goint with what works — nice, glossy business cards with a real polish. The key is having an excellent logo designed to use on all of your marketing materials, not just the cards.

-Jason Clegg

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:53:54 +0000

Maren Kate,

I like the first one. It really stands out. I don't have business cards of my own and really haven't gotten any to be perfectly honest.

Wouldn't it be a cool idea to have the greatest tweet you ever sent on the front of your business card as your slogan or something? Just a thought.

By: Maren Kate

Maren Kate — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:32:33 +0000

Maybe your right… but I will tell you one thing, in my biz.. building websites and having businesses sign thousand dollar & up contracts for social media marketing campaigns… clients REALLY like that one on one, personal touch. I think maybe you are right, but maybe, just maybe business cards are one of the last hold outs from a crumbling print world that will last. Personally if someone gave me any of the cards above, or a meatcard, I would keep it… put it on my desk… look at it over and over and probably eventually contact that person, if only to say “Wow, great business card”. But I may also be relying too much on the biz card thing… I tend to get OCD about stuff and not rest till its “perfect”

By: Nick Johnson

Nick Johnson — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:16:25 +0000

Greg & Scott, what are you two scumbags doing here taking up my commenting space Exactly how did you guys learn of Maren anyways?

By: strugglinginvestor

strugglinginvestor — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:53:32 +0000

I've got the hardest time coming up with a good business card that doesn't look like everyone elses. My question is, in the end does it really matter? There are so many ways to find a person you need these days (twitter, facebook, etc..) that If I need someone for a particular purpose I'll just post a quick message to my network and get a recommendation. I never think about looking through my collection of business cards.

Also if someone is important and I'm going to want to remember them I put their info into my gmail contacts with a description of who they are.

I personally think business cards are out dated. Maybe that is just me.

By: Maren Kate

Maren Kate — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:07:02 +0000

haha! Yeah but the rest of the card is U-G-L-Y that is the problem! I do find it good to include my twitter handle on my cards though.. people tend to notice since it isn't as mainstream as adding your email or something else.

By: Maren Kate

Maren Kate — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:06:17 +0000

That is a good idea.. you usually only see that on real estate broker cards, but it would be cool to figure out something funky & use a picture of yourself with it. Thanks!

By: gregharris66720

gregharris66720 — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:09:21 +0000

I like business cards that have a picture on them. It helps to keep the name with the face. Also if you are going to an event or summit have the location you gave it to them at on it somewhere. I find it helps people remember you better.

By: Nick Johnson

Nick Johnson — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:40:16 +0000

I like the one who included their twitter info on it. Hmmmmmm, I wonder who's that is