Business Cards Land

Last Friday we gave you the little treat of a video that taught you a magic trick that could just impress your potential clients or customers while you give them your business card.  Let’s face it, when it comes to handing out your business card, you’re giving a piece of yourself away and you want to impress the people you’re giving it to.  What better way to do that than a brief, interesting and memorable trick.

This Friday, since it’s most likely nice out and you’re ready to start your weekend, we have another video that will teach you to do another, easier, and arguably COOLER business card trick that will be wowing the people around you and making you stand out in their minds from that point forward.  You went to all that trouble to make and design a unique business card, don’t waste the opportunity to give it away by just handing it over.  Follow the steps in this video and watch how people respond!

Trust us, try this trick out, and leave us some comments to let us know how it went when you did it!  Have a great weekend and we’ll see you bright and early Monday Morning!

How To Give Your Business Card – Click here for another funny movie.

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So this week we’ve basically learned how to use all these great business cards you have lying around to your advantage and help you build up a great new network of friends, family, and potential clients.  The thing is, you still want to have an unforgettable business card so when you DO use them to network, everyone seeing them, remembers them…and you.

So, for this fine Friday, we’re going to throw at you the 4 things you should always remember in your quest to making your business cards not only unique, but unforgettable.  You keep these ideas in mind when designing your cards at OvernightPrints.com and you’ll be amazed how great the results you’ll see are.

1. Stacking Up – How do people react to your card compared to all of the other cards you’ve been given, have seen or have kept.  Which have you kept, and why?
2. Standing Out – Colors, Pictures and different color backgrounds always stand out.  Make yours stand out and it will be remembered.
3. Creative Enhancement – Mess with size, shape, color, layout, pop-outs.  Whatever you need to do to make yours unique and not boring.
4. Implementation – This goes back to what we talked about Monday and Wednesday…actually getting those cards out there!

There you have it.  You follow those 4 steps, and combine them with the strategies from Monday and Wednesday and you’ll be shocked, amazed, and pleasantly surprised with just how far your network will expand, and how much business will pick up.  Stay with it, and for now, get to work on those creative cards!

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It’s Wednesday, which means you’re officially halfway to the much coveted weekend!  Monday, if you remember, we went over the first 5 ways to use your unique and creative business cards to help network and broaden the sphere of people that know about, and want to utilize your services.

Today, we’re going to cover the 2nd half of that great list, and give you even more great ways to network with those great little business cards you worked so hard to create.  Remember, the first step is to create a great business card, so head over to OvernightPrints.com and get started with a design that people won’t be soon forgetting.  Again, check out the full article for more in-depth reasoning, but for now, here is a paraphrasing of the second half of the great tips to use your cards to network:

1. Maximize every “per chance” meeting. You never know when you might meet someone who can help you. Family or friends social events could produce unexpected encounters with people. Don’t discount those events.
2. Place yourself at the right place at the right time. Have you been to a job fair or business conference and been disappointed with the networking results’ Turn the tables around. Consider volunteering to help out at the job fair or other types of events.
3. Use “In Your Face” follow up. Did you ever have a job interview or meeting with a recruiter, potential client or employer and wonder why they never called you back’ ‘Out of sight, out of mind’ is the operative phrase to remember.
4. Use promotions to promote YOU, Inc. Newspapers often have stories of people being promoted to high levels in different organizations’ This is an opportunity for you.
5. Brand yourself with a slogan. Print a slogan on your business card that answers the question ‘Why should I hire you’ Or “What makes you different from everyone else’” A catchy phrase or slogan insures people ALWAYS associate a company name with their product or services.

There you have it!  I am certain you found something in there that can help you get over any current business plateau you might find yourself on.  Start spreading the word about yourself, watch what returns you will see!

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Given that so many business cards are barely glanced at, thrown away, or casually crammed into a cluttered desk drawer , a tip like this one is pure gold.

However, this tactic is not for the easily embarrassed – the shy – or anyone with an “I’m only networking because the boss tells me to” attitude.  It takes a certain amount of self-confidence and a smidgeon of showmanship to carry it off.

Are you ready?  It’s really very simple.  It costs you absolutely nothing.  All you need is a business card.

Drum roll, please…

The next time you give someone your business card – make a presentation out of it, and hand it to them with BOTH HANDS!

It’s all about attitude.  If you treat your card like so much scrap paper or as if the business card exchange isn’t very important, odds are that your counterpart won’t attach much importance to it, either.

If, instead, you treat your business card as if it contains extremely valuable information (and it does, right?), your counterpart is likely to attach value to it as well.

When you hand your business card to someone with both hands, you’re subtly conveying that this isn’t an ordinary card.  This card is different.  This card is worth a look.  (And believe me; the recipient WILL look at a card that’s given out this way.)  This card is worth keeping.

For even more impact, take a moment to make sure the card is face up and turned so the recipient can read it.  Then hand it sloooowwwwly to the other person.  Don’t worry about looking awkward or hurrying this part – the whole point is to make a production out of the business card presentation.

It may feel a bit awkward.  I still have a rather sheepish grin on my face when I do it.  Sometimes I explain this little business card tactic, too.  It’s a great conversation starter.

Try it!

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