What do your business cards look like?

photoguy6405 wrote in post #12799995
Anyone else think that we sometimes overthink business cards?

I'm sure some people do! I sure don't have the time or patience to at the moment.

How is this for a simple card? Has anyone else not included a telephone number? These are proof prints and will be worked on more when I have the time to get a large run printed.

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SaxonIV wrote in post #12832065
I'm sure some people do! I sure don't have the time or patience to at the moment.

How is this for a simple card? Has anyone else not included a telephone number? These are proof prints and will be worked on more when I have the time to get a large run printed.

I don't list my phone number either, just website and e-mail.

SaxonIV wrote in post #12832065
I'm sure some people do! I sure don't have the time or patience to at the moment.

How is this for a simple card? Has anyone else not included a telephone number? These are proof prints and will be worked on more when I have the time to get a large run printed.

To me using a Gmail and a Smugmug account says amateur to me.

Hikin Mike wrote in post #12832977
To me using a Gmail and a Smugmug account says amateur to me.

I don't know if I see at as totally amateur, but pay the $10 for the domain, set up gmail on the domain and forward the domain to smugmug.
There's really no excuse not to.

Hikin Mike wrote in post #12832977
To me using a Gmail and a Smugmug account says amateur to me.

If the person is an amateur (or small time person just wanting to sell a print here and there), is that necessarily a bad thing?

Yeah, domain names are cheap, but setting up forwarding and all that stuff can be a pain in the rear end for someone who isn't experienced doing such things and really isn't that into it.

kfreels wrote in post #12826838
I think that most people will assume that if your business card looks like crap, you probably have poor artistic taste.

There's a difference between looking like crap vs looking good and looking good vs pulling out all the stops and using exotic materials and stuff that takes a great deal of time and costs quite a bit more money. I was talking about the latter.

photoguy6405 wrote in post #12833710
If the person is an amateur (or small time person just wanting to sell a print here and there), is that necessarily a bad thing?

Yeah, domain names are cheap, but setting up forwarding and all that stuff can be a pain in the rear end for someone who isn't experienced doing such things and really isn't that into it.

If you buy the domain from google, email just works and smugmug has instructions. If you buy the domain from SmugMug (which sells for GoDaddy) that's set up and you can get Google's instructions to work with GoDaddy.

If you have no clue what you're doing, it probably still won't take more than an hour.
Or you could probably find someone to help you/do it for you locally pretty easily.

photoguy6405 wrote in post #12833731
There's a difference between looking like crap vs looking good and looking good vs pulling out all the stops and using exotic materials and stuff that takes a great deal of time and costs quite a bit more money. I was talking about the latter.

I certainly agree. My take on the question was whether a thread about what everyone's business cards look like is worth getting involved in. I can be a bit dense sometimes.

So yeah, exotic materials and such is probably overkill. But then I paid $20 for 100 cards on a linen cardstock front and back and spent about an hour making the card up which I think is perfectly reasonable.

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photoguy6405 wrote in post #12833710
If the person is an amateur (or small time person just wanting to sell a print here and there), is that necessarily a bad thing?

Yeah, domain names are cheap, but setting up forwarding and all that stuff can be a pain in the rear end for someone who isn't experienced doing such things and really isn't that into it.

Considering I've set up everything so far, I'm not inexperienced. We will be getting a domain name, but waiting out until we launch the site officially. For now it's not been a priority really. Thanks for the suggestions.


So no actual feedback on the card itself? That's what I'm really looking for help with.

SaxonIV wrote in post #12834424
Considering I've set up everything so far, I'm not inexperienced. We will be getting a domain name, but waiting out until we launch the site officially. For now it's not been a priority really. Thanks for the suggestions.

Just an FYI - the number on my card is simply a free google voice account. That way I can have a dedicated voicemail, voicemail messages transcribed to text, and I can have the calls sent to my cell without having to give my cell out to people.

kfreels wrote in post #12834456
Just an FYI - the number on my card is simply a free google voice account. That way I can have a dedicated voicemail, voicemail messages transcribed to text, and I can have the calls sent to my cell without having to give my cell out to people.

I do this too.
I have an android phone so my contact list is all integrated too.
If the caller is on my contact list they get my regular voicemail greeting. If they're unknown they get my business voicemail. Unfortunately there's no way to set it up that the google number gets one greeting and my number gets another, but this gets it close.

some very nice designs here

here's mine

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I like it! It's different

CanonGrl01 wrote in post #12837204
I like it! It's different

Agreed!

kfreels wrote in post #12834384
I certainly agree. My take on the question was whether a thread about what everyone's business cards look like is worth getting involved in. I can be a bit dense sometimes.

So yeah, exotic materials and such is probably overkill. But then I paid $20 for 100 cards on a linen cardstock front and back and spent about an hour making the card up which I think is perfectly reasonable.

when i see people holding the camera with the shutter on the bottom of the camera like that it drives me nuts. in my opinion a photo like that appears like a mirror shot (may or may not be) but feels out of place on a business card. samples on the other side are good though.