Business Card Design Tips: How To Make Your Card Professional
Business Card Design tips to create that perfect card! From formatting to finishing, the basics to getting started with creating your card!
Your business is booming and things are looking up after so much hard work at getting started. On the go, you’re having small conversations with people about your life and eventually, the topic of business will come up. Chances are, you’ve been asked about your services and for a piece of paper with your name on it so the interested patrons can remember for later. You reach into your briefcase to find a pen, but there isn’t one. You scrounge the coffee shop you’re at for a piece of paper, but can’t seem to find anything besides the receipt you were just given.
You don’t want to be that person who has to write your email address and website on a Starbucks coffee cup.
You want to be the person who has a flawless business card design, who gets comments on the texture, the cardstock, and of course, the marvelous design of the font your company’s name will be in. A business card is not just a piece of paper, it’s your ticket to being remembered in a drawer full of other business cards.
So how can you can make yourself stand out on a business card? The below business card design tips are tailored to make your business and your personal message stand out against the crowd.
THE BASICS

Starting with the basics, you want to make sure that your business card is formatted to include bleed. This means that the printer will have plenty of space to cut your business card without any text or images being cut off. There is nothing worse than your own company name not being included on the whole card. How is that going to look when a potential client types your name into a search engine and you don’t pop up?
Designing your business card in CMYK optimizes your chances of your business card really standing out. This enables the printer to print your business card to its full colour potential with vibrancy and accuracy. Colours will show up how they should regardless of which printer it is printed on, and you are likely to not have any issues with the colour being far from what you imagined it.
THE PRESENTATION – Who are You?

Make sure that you’re leaving enough space to write any type of service that you’re wanting to highlight underneath as well as your contact information. No one should have to squint to see an email address, so keep that in mind before you load your business card with so much text that there isn’t room for much else. Keep it simple and classy with the intention that people are going to skim your card for the contact information first.
FINISHING





Next time you talk about your business at a coffee shop, you don’t have to look for a pen and paper, you’ll have a brilliantly designed card that represents you instead of your Chai Tea Latte.
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