If you’ve been feeling the pinch of the economic downturn and don’t have much for a marketing budget or you are just looking for a cost-effective marketing tool, give business cards another look.  They still work BTW!
A really effective marketing strategy is word of mouth, and the absolute most powerful resource to help with that is your business cards.

Business cards can only cost pennies per card and yet they can give you an amazing bang for your buck.  You do have to hand them out though to get that bang! 
When handing them out realize that your card is one of the first impressions your prospects will have of you and your service, so make sure they are presentable: Clean, not folded, not bent, etc…
Now when designing them, make sure you make them readable.  I’ve seen business cards where the background colour so overwhelmed the rest of the card, I couldn’t even read the contact info.  How useless is that!

Hope this helps!

Now go give out some business cards.

Have a great day!
Mark

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