So yesterday I spent 10 hours working on business cards. It was a horrible day, as I had vastly underestimated the time and mental energy required to complete the task on my own. Or maybe I'm just a perfectionist. Regardless, I should have started sooner (I have a presentation this Thursday that I needed the cards for) or looked into hiring a professional. Fortunately, I was able to eventually track down a good template online, create my cards (after much trial and error and fiddling around), and send them off for rush shipping (the latter, of course, costing me extra, which only infuriated me more. Yes, I think I learned my lesson on this one).
So, I have a few questions for everyone:
1) Do you make your own business cards or do you hire the work out?
2) Do you prefer business cards or bookmarks? Which do you think is more effective in marketing yourself?
I thought that the bookmarks would be better, since they're functional and might be less likely to get tossed aside, but I scoured the internet for a bookmark template and couldn't find anything. So I went into Publisher and created my own 2" x 6" page, but I'm not very familiar with bookmarks, and I struggled trying to design it. Eventually, I gave up and settled on creating business cards instead. So, on that note . . .
3) Do you know of any websites that have bookmark templates? Something that sparks ideas for where to put the photo(s), text, etc.
Thanks, everyone! I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
So, I have a few questions for everyone:
1) Do you make your own business cards or do you hire the work out?
2) Do you prefer business cards or bookmarks? Which do you think is more effective in marketing yourself?
I thought that the bookmarks would be better, since they're functional and might be less likely to get tossed aside, but I scoured the internet for a bookmark template and couldn't find anything. So I went into Publisher and created my own 2" x 6" page, but I'm not very familiar with bookmarks, and I struggled trying to design it. Eventually, I gave up and settled on creating business cards instead. So, on that note . . .
3) Do you know of any websites that have bookmark templates? Something that sparks ideas for where to put the photo(s), text, etc.
Thanks, everyone! I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
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