You’ve probably seen a vertical business card. Although they aren’t nearly as common in the basic templates of most online printers, but they do indeed exist.  As the name indicates, vertical business cards have the length shorter than the width and the content layed out accordingly. It’s kind of like flipping from portrait to landscape with paper.

So why would you consider doing vertical business cards?

Good question!

There are some good benefits that you may be interested in:

Distinction

It looks like a more premium business card, but many printers offer vertical at nearly the same price as normal horizontal layout business cards.  So you get premium look with economy pricing: always a nice bonus!

Wow Factor

It has that instant difference which will capture peoples attention.  Not many people have vertical business cards so yours can be much more memorable.

New Options

With the business card dimensions reversed you open a new world of image and layout options: longer images, sidebars, etc…

More leads

With the already mentioned wow factor you will definitely get more people seeing your card and this translates into more reading it as well.  And if it is a well designed business card, it will effectively capture more leads.

So next time you’re in the market, consider vertical business cards.

Hope this helps and have a great day!
Mark

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