The Relation Between You and Your Business Card


by Colleen Davis - Date: 2008-11-20 - Word Count: 471 Share This!

Business cards can be a very personal kind of marketing, and can act as an extension of yourself in a way most other marketing isn't capable of achieving.

Even if you work for a large company you can still be designing your own business card, which means that your card is going to be a reflection of you and your tastes. With the rise in custom business cards this becomes even more pressing of a concern and a bigger presence in the marketplace. The less personality your card contains the less personality people might start to attribute to you, and that can kill a lot of future sales.


This connection between yourself and your business card is only made more significant by the fact that you are very likely to actually be there when handing out your cards. You will be personally placing that card into a person's hand, and when they first see your card it might even be after a conversation they just had with you.


This means your business card will be affected by what you've been saying and what impression a person has of you. If your business card is particularly plain or boring and they were expecting something a little more interesting, it might harm their impression of you.


On the reverse side of things if you hand them a very interesting custom business card I can bet you the first thing they'll do is look right back up at you, their opinion of you now altered by the card you gave them.


This is the power of strong color business cards when put to good use. You affect your card and your card affects you. Each can help make up for something lacking in the other, but only to an extent. If your card is particularly poorly put together you might very well lose a sale no matter how good of an impression you just made.


Your goal needs to be to make sure that both you and your full color business cards are up to the task and good at grabbing attention. You want to wow people with your first interaction and first impression on them, only to then surprise them again by giving them a very unique business card they've never seen before.


This helps you to build upon your first good impression and leave them walking away impressed by what they saw. If you can accomplish that than you can be certain that they're going to be that much more likely to call you up later. If nothing else you've ensured that when they look at your card in the future, they'll remember who it gave it to them, which is a very nice thing. The first step towards accomplishing this is understanding just how important the business card can be.




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