{"id":1476,"date":"2006-07-07T15:57:28","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T10:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2006\/07\/create-a-great-business-card-everlasting-first-impressions\/"},"modified":"2019-08-19T14:23:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T08:53:17","slug":"create-a-great-business-card-everlasting-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2006\/07\/create-a-great-business-card-everlasting-first-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Create a Great Business Card : Everlasting First Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you give a <strong>business card<\/strong> to someone, it is a <strong>long lasting impression<\/strong> you pass on, which the person may file, keep long enough to call you back after years.<\/p>\n<p>Scobleizer gives some excellent advice on Business card best practices and helps you design a better, more effective business card. I picked up some nice ideas from there &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;My last ones at Microsoft, for instance, were imprinted with my info in <strong>braille<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nNow that is a new one I never thought of. Disabled friendly cards with accessibility features for the blind.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;One of mine were made out of a <strong>rubbery <\/strong>material&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nThe first feel of a crisp business card definitely makes a good impression. The more unique the material, the more surprising the effect.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Don&#8217;t make non-standard <strong>sizes or shapes<\/strong>&#8220;<\/em><br \/>\nThe single best advice I say. Most people file away business cards for future reference. Standard sizes fit all forms of business card storage filers. Oversized non fitting business cards usually land in the bin (unless a scissors is around).<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;If you do business in two countries, include both <strong>languages<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\nI think it will be a well appreciated gesture for your foreign business contact, shows your nice gesture and should break the ice on your first meeting.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Triple check for <strong>typos<\/strong>&#8220;<\/em><br \/>\nToby mentions this in his comments there. I feel Typos are the single best way to spoil your first impression and show your careless attitude.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Be Different<\/strong> (include the awe element) and <strong>be Googleable<\/strong> (let them find more about you &#8211; better that by getting your own domain name and a professional looking personal website.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you give a business card to someone, it is a long lasting impression you pass on, which the person&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}