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Business Cards and Exercise Services

admin — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:45:35 +0000

Design Ideas for Professional yet Fun-looking Yoga Calling Cards

Exercise means bendable, stretchable, and able; and as a yogi, being a living example of health and fitness to yoga students is a must. To make you more credible, designing your own yoga business cards uniquely into one that fully defines your business and lifestyle will gain your target students’ trust.

Moving away from the traditional design strategies used in businesses will make you be more flexible in your ability to express what Yoga is all about. Since the nature of your work revolves around flexibility of the body, designing can be bendable and stretchable too.

1. Wrap around: With more options nowadays with business cards printing, designs can be printed on both sides and with different stocks. Try explaining what Yoga is all about by using a Yoga position that wraps from the front part to the back. Through this, recipients will already know that your class can be a way to train students to become flexible and disciplined in mind and body.

2. People Text: You can also explain the nature of your business by using the different Yoga positions for spelling out your name and business. This style will be fun to look at and your recipients can also have a preview of what’s in store when enrolled in your class.

3. People Design: Since Yoga originated from India, you can use the different positions in very small sizes to build famous Indian designs and prints. This way, just by looking at your business card, your receivers can learn a thing or two about the History of this certain exercise and do a little research on their own, which generates interest from your target students.

4. Informational Design: Explaining the introductory part of every Yoga class such as the chakras and the mantras can be a good design idea for the back part. Since the stages are very colorful, only a few tweaking on the design is needed.

Promoting what you do for a living can be best expressed when elements that come from your service are included in your materials like personal business cards.

By: Kristine

Before you Print, Improve your Business Cards

admin — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:01:50 +0000

Strategies and Ideas on How to Improve your Standard, Traditional Calling Cards

Professional business cards are needed for your business since these prints are one of the important tools that can get yourself known in the industry. As you go for business card printing, especially online, you can find templates that fit your line of business; and to be unique with your identity, tweaking the elements of the design and structure can help a lot in transforming the layout into your own.

If you observe a template, very basic structures are given such as the name, telephone number, the photo, and the background. As you edit online, you are given the liberty to play around with these items to fit your own profession’s personality. With a few concepts on how to build custom-made and personalized business cards, just a little knowledge and tips are needed.

1. Background: The background of your template usually consists of a simple linear layout that covers about ¼ of your business card. First thing you can do is to change the color into what your main logo or company consists of. If the background design is a curvy swipe, you can straighten the lines and have the strip fill up half of your card with a fade out effect. Blend in contrasting colors along the shaded area; you can use jagged lines for a serious line of work, or a blend of swirls for creative services.

2. Enlarge name: Make yourself the star of the business card; aside from your business, you are promoting yourself to represent the work. With fonts, simple and bold is still ideal, but there are some instances when more sophisticated or groovy letter shapes are needed. For example, for a jeweler, script can better represent femininity and luxury; for a preschool teacher, fat and rounded fonts seem friendlier and child-like. The positioning of your name is not really important, what should be taken note of is making the size bigger, with the right font color to blend with your background.

3. Take design risks, play with colors: With online design tools, you have clip art choices for graphics. Take the risk in playing around with the shapes, connect them together, and come up with different patterns that can make up a design. Also, with the colors, blending can be easy if you start with just two contrasting colors to work on. As you go along, you can add two or more that you think suits your whole design, look, and business of course.

4. Use the back: Take advantage of using the full color printing on both sides feature. Planning a draft layout first on a piece of paper can help you come up with a nice and logical concept for your back design. Always think to leave space for a photo and a short tagline. Also, a fully-colored background at the back is better if you have a plain front, or vice versa.

Styling your business card requires taking risks, imagination, and basic knowledge on how to highlight and weigh what elements are to be focused on. With a cool, catchy, and personalized design, your potential clients will remember you and your business just the way you planned.

By: Kristine

Best Business Cards Design

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:54:40 +0000

What Do You Think A Business Card Is For?

The use of business cards, or calling cards as they were more popularly known, is still widely prevalent today, even in this age of electronic communications. Technologies of instant communications such as Bluetooth and infrared connectivity are easier and much handier ways of sending and receiving data and information, including those contained in a business card. Yet people —and particularly businessmen— still carry around small stacks of business cards, giving them away at every chance they get and at the slightest provocation. Don’t ever tell a businessman you’ll call and he will give you his card, faster than you can say “Jack Robinson”, whoever he is, regardless of whether he has given you one earlier.

This only proves business cards still play a vital role in business or even everyday life, because even those not in business, such as students, have calling cards in their names. Why so? A number of reasons have been advanced as to the business card’s functions, and they range from as a source of personal pride to a business tool.

The functions of a business card

As a business advertising tool. A business card will normally contain the owner’s name, form or list of business or service rendered, phone or contact number/s, and some sort of catchphrase or slogan for the business. In this way the holder will immediately see in the card if the card owner is the appropriate solution to his immediate needs. So actually the card acts as a kind of ’sleeper’ or inactive advertising for the owner, accessed when needed.

As a social link. Many people accept other people’s business cards and promptly forget both the card and the person right afterwards. Then the card is remembered when the holder needs to contact the card owner socially, and so the card is dredged up from the dustbin of ‘where-did-I-place-it’ questions. Or, you may not care what the guy sells, but he is so hunky…

As a travelling reference. If you know a friend who requires his boat engine serviced and you bump into someone who does that, you may wish to request his card to pass to your friend, who might later pass it on to another with similar needs. Without the card, neither potential customer will remember the boat engine service provider when the service is required. With it, the card owner may well capture a whole boating association.

As a personal affectation. It is simply classy to give away business cards, even if the owner has no business. It gives the owner a feeling of ’superiority’ -for lack of a more appropriate term-over others. It is also a lot easier to just hand a receptionist, say, your business card instead of explaining who you are.

So, the card

Different people have different uses for a business card and if you think one reason is enough, then you’re wrong. A business card does all of the above, and often, more.

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