A blogger’s calling card

Phase one of my grand scheme to take over the world (my friends thought I was joking) via the triple threat of web design, photography, and blogging: MAKE BUSINESS CARDS.

If I had a dollar for every time someone has asked me where my website was and I either went scrambling for a scrap of paper and a pen or just tried to explain how to spell Lylium (”It’s like ‘lily’, but, uh… spelled wrong.”), then I might have had enough to pay for these business cards. Lol.

I have been thinking about doing this for quite awhile, but I finally up and had them printed because I do not want to be empty-handed if I talk to anyone about Lylium at WebVisions this week. And, hey! Nothing makes a good first impression like a card with a HUGE PICTURE OF YOUR FACE on it.

You may also notice that I made the judicious decision to leave any actually USEFUL information off of the card… so that potential web or photography clients can’t call me or email me… but they can sure come read my blog! D’oh. No, that really was on purpose. I would like to be able to hand this out to anyone, without worrying about the unseemly widespread knowledge of my phone number. There’s plenty of space on the back to add my number if I need to—so I guess I’ll still be diving for that pen after all.

Logistics, for those interested: Based on the recommendation of Flickr photographer Bradley Spitzer (whose business card, which clearly inspired mine, can be viewed here), I ordered my business cards from OvernightPrints.com. Their prices seemed pretty affordable, although honestly I did not do a lot of comparison shopping (shame on me). But I am thrilled with the cards. They are nice and substantial feeling, the glossy UV coating (a free option I chose) looks really slick, and the cards were trimmed right where they said they would be (meaning that my text precariously centered between the edge of the photo and the edge of the card really is centered there).

My only beef about the whole process is the fact that the cards arrived one business day later than originally expected—today, rather than Friday. That turned out to be okay, but it’s a good thing I didn’t order them a day or two later. So if you decide to order your own cards, I would recommend not waiting until the last minute like I did. But it worked out okay.

I got 250 of these puppies printed. I will be disappointed if half of them aren’t gone by the end of this conference.

… Just kidding.

(Psst? What’s that? You want one of my cards? Well, drop me a line and I’ll see what I can do.)

(Psst? What’s that? You want me to design you a business card? That sounds good too. Write to me and we can talk about it.)

Posted on Monday, July 17th, 2006 at 10:40 pm.
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