Business Cards
Business Cards
Working these days usually means talking to a lot of people, trying to sell them something or trying to buy something from other business persons. It would be impossible to remember everyone’s name and phone number. Writing the information in your agenda would lead to spending minutes every time you intend to call someone. Therefore business men use business cards. Every meeting includes a business card exchange, cards that contain the giver’s name, his position in the company, at least one phone number, other contact information (fax number, email address), website and the street address. Additionally it can include bank account and tax code.
Business cards can sometimes be simple, black text on white stock or the reverse combination, white text on black colored stock Considering that today digital printing is used to print the design of a business card, costs have become affordable for almost everyone to use multicolor cards. The design of a business card can be the image of the company, an unique design could be the sign of an important company. A business card can also contain raised text, obtained using a plastic powder over the ink in a high temperature chamber.
To print the cards more quickly printers use an offset method, similar to “fingerprinting”. A card is not very well dried so the next one gets the needed colors of the previous one’s surface. This process is also known as Aqueous Coatings. Another quite new concept of business card is the CD card. These cards can contain data up to 100Mb, but the concept is not very wide spread. The materials can also differ from the consecrated paper: metal, wood, rubber, plastic, pvc and other materials can be used for designing special business cards.
If your looking for a design to use on your business cards you can find thousands of free designs or pay designer to create a personalized one.
Some of these sites are:
BusinessCards.com
CardsMadeEasy.com
AllBusinessCards.com
ClickBusunessCards.com
Business.com
Business.com
Business.com was founded in 1999 as a search engine with the purpose to become a leader in displaying all kind of businesses and corporations information. It is a business-to-business search engine, therefore if your business’s target is another business then you’ve come to the right place, if the target is the consumer then the results will not be exactly what you’re looking for. Being a search engine means the site allows you to search for the right business partners just like any other search engine, but more precise and with better results. You can also use it as a business directory as you can browse through categories and subcategories until you get to your target.
The listings belong to one of the three options available: Featured (or Premium), Sponsored and Standard. The featured listings start at $40 cents per click and are available only for US businesses, no start-up cost. The listings are shown above the natural search results. The sponsored listings start at $20 cents per click and a minimum $25 start-up cost. The listings are displayed right next to the natural search results. The standard listings are shown in alphabetical order and the cost is as low as 99$ per year.
With over 400 000 listings and covering over 65000 industries you can rest assured you won’t leave the site unsatisfied. Busines.com is also a pay per click advertising network and it is running smoothly as we have over 40 million unique business users and thousands of advertisers every month. In 2006 the company launched work.com, a site dedicated to informing and helping others through the so called “How to Guides”. At this moment the site provides more than 3000 such guides, all written by business experts.