What is your best advice about business cards?

I am thinking of starting a small side business and am going to be printing some business cards. Actually will be having them printed probably but I was going to go with cream background and a daisy on the corner and then my information. This will be for a at home transcription service. I think it is quite fun and tasteful

What is your best advice about business cards?
The "free" VistaPrint cards are if you agree to have their logo on the back of them. The stock is light and cheap and the registration (placement of the text and images relative to the edges of the card) is horrible. There also seems to be some issues with extra credit card charges appearing on people's bills for some kind of "rewards" program.





Never ever ever.








My best advice for you is to take your cards somewhere other than a big-box store, who tend to only carry Domtar in 65-pound cover stock, which isn't heavy enough for business cards although they insist that it is. You want 80-lb/12-point or heavier. Twelve-point stock coated on two sides, for a slight sheen finish, is a good stock for cards.





If your daisy is going to be white, a print shop with a good digital colour machine can print a cream background and leave the daisy white, which will make it really pop off the page. Ask for some test prints to make sure the cream solid doesn't look mottled (it shouldn't, but different equipment produces different results), and if you don't love it, find somewhere else.





I'm going on and on about this because it's so important to have a card you're proud of. Your business and your design sound great.
Reply:Hello my friend,





Business cards are definitely the way to go.





I know what it like to start a business, you have to watch your expenses.





Try this site:


http://www.vistaprint.com/





You can get 250 free business cards to get you started.





You only have to pay shipping and handling.





This should get you off to a great start.





Good luck.





I hope this helps.





Ollie G


http://www.df4u2.com
Reply:Sounds cute. Spend the extra money to have them professionally done (not printed on your home printer). Cards printed on ink jet look totally sloppy -- not the kind of image your trying to portray for your business.
Reply:sounds good