What’s Your Preference?

Gina9942 · #1 (**permalink**) 08-23-2010, 08:17 PM

I am attaching my business card. Any thoughts on it? I haven't had it printed yet, I probably should add my email address, but other than that what do you think?

TIA!!

BuddhaPi · #2 (**permalink**) 08-23-2010, 08:30 PM

email is a must, a physical address can go a long way to show legitimacy of your business, but I thinnk thats more of a personal thing with me, If I visit sites that down shown an address I don't do business with them as a general rule... The card looks nice IMHO

Gina9942 · #3 (**permalink**) 08-23-2010, 08:40 PM

I am going to add the email address, I don't have a physical studio, but I can put my home address. Thanks for pointing that out, I appreciate the feedback.

JohnT · #4 (**permalink**) 08-23-2010, 08:53 PM

I can surmise you specialize in Portrait photograpy just by your business card. Nicely done.

Gina9942 · #5 (**permalink**) 08-23-2010, 08:55 PM

Yay! lol I tried to put a sampling of children, babies, maternity, family and also show that I do on location, as seen by the family beach. I didn't want to make the card too wordy.

NicoleScraps · #6 (**permalink**) 08-23-2010, 08:58 PM

Maybe if not your physical address, you could put your general location, so if someone finds your card, they will know if you are local to them or not. It is a great card though.

May I ask where you plan to have these printed? I designed a new card for my husband's business and need to find a good printer.

Gina9942 · #7 (**permalink**) 08-23-2010, 09:12 PM

Thank you!! I have it matching my website, which for now is a work in progress.

I haven't really looked into printing places yet, when I find some place I will let you know. This is the first time I am getting business cards printed. I might print the first batch on my home printer, just for a test. I have a really really good printer, then I am going to go from there.

BigVinnie · #8 (**permalink**) 08-23-2010, 09:17 PM

I have a local printer that I get mine done. Full color, coated, printing on the back for a lot less than I found online. PM me if you want contact info.

I also ran across moo.com I guy I met last week gave me his card that had been done there. Decent work except they have their own little ad printed on the back. On the plus side you can get them done with your cards each having different images on them. I thought that was kinda cool.

GadgetRick · #9 (**permalink**) 08-23-2010, 09:29 PM

Gotta have your email address on there. Physical address doesn't matter so much these days. Besides, you've got your website url on there, email is a must.

Other than that I kinda like it. Different but it tells what you do.

prabbit237 · #10 (**permalink**) 08-23-2010, 10:24 PM

This is just my thoughts on the website name itself.

Many people make the "mistake" of running their website name together and not realizing how it may look at a glance. I figure yer business is "Toad Stool Designs" and not "Toads Tool Designs" but yet that's how I read it at first. You might want to consider registering toad-stool-designs.com and having that as yer main address (you can have them both aliased to the one website.)

But just think about the website experts-exchange.com (a website devoted to answering questions about computer issues.) They used to go by expertsexchange.com. Must have been based out of Sweden (everyone over about 40 knows that the Swedes were well known for being the "Expert Sex Change" folks.