Comments on: Business Cards. Trust me – you need them.

By: Designing a good business card

Designing a good business card — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:00:14 +0000

[...] Having a business card is important. You can design your own on-line, but if you do, make sure you create a card that reflects well on your business, and offers the information your clients need. [...]

By: Jennifer Gniadecki

Jennifer Gniadecki — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 16:07:16 +0000

I think the most innovative use of the back of a business card if you are just dying to use the blank space is to actually put the word Notes: and then have the back of the card lined like an index card.

Ultimately I think that you have to purpose the back of your card in some way. On my card there is only a logo on the front…leaving me white space to write on. The back of the card has contact information, a smaller logo, the tagline, and a list of services to get someone’s mind going.

I love these ideas, Shannon. It’s amazing, isn’t it, how little you really have to change in order to stand out from the crowd.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:48:57 +0000

Those are some good ideas. however a blank space on the back is not always wasted. It can often be used to write an additional note related to the conversation at hand or if information on the card is gone out of date since they were printed.

Also one may want to consider other uses for “business cards” other than “business.” I wrote a post a few days ago on my blog about other uses for the traditional business card including a social networking card, blog card, special event card, graduate card, etc. The article is at;

http://www.spinningsilkmultimedia.com/do-you-have-more-than-one-type-of-business-card/