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Business Cards & Flyers

Posted by Marc Ollerenshaw on August 14, 2016 at 10:45am in Marketing
Hi everyone,We are currently in the process of designing our business cards and flyers and have hit a wall with the Business Cards and looking for some advice.Our Flyers are fully designed and ready to print however we are unsure what to include on the Business Cards and whether they should be single or double sided?Any thoughts would be great, we are trying to create a "brand" by using the same backgrounds on all platforms ie website, flyers, social media accounts etc... The problem is we think the background on the cards may look too much so do we go for a superstar design which will still include our logo?Thanks in advance
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    Andrew Watts August 14, 2016 at 1:09pm

    Mine have logo with web url on the rear, and contact info on the front, all consistent with logos and brand styles and colours. Biz cards should be quality material and simple to read IMO.

    BTW, Marc, to get the most out your info requests you should join the BOG.

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      Robbie > Andrew Watts August 14, 2016 at 1:17pm

      I'm currently getting mine updated.

      Flyers, biz cards, contact forms ect all getting done by a graphic designer at the moment.

      Night and day difference  to what I had knocked up myself in the past.

      Biz cards are small so IMO, logo on one side and all your info on the other.

      For printing I use route one, very good value for printing.

      • Marc Ollerenshaw > Robbie August 14, 2016 at 1:27pm
        Great thanks for that Robbie!
        We was thinking the same with logo, website and phone on one side and details of everything else on the other.
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    Geoffrey King August 14, 2016 at 9:21pm

    A great tool for designing, with large Free element and well priced paid parts is Canva, this is what I did for my Twitter header, just playing around

    3314741921?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024this software is quite good for producing a whole range of digital and conventional media / stationery

    https://about.canva.com/

    we got our business cards done with https://www.moo.com/uk/  which we both found to be exceptionally easy to use, with their very clear instructions and options, for instance my partner had 3 different backgrounds, allowing clients to choose which one they prefer

    • Marc Ollerenshaw > Geoffrey King August 14, 2016 at 10:16pm
      Hi Geoffrey,
      We have a design software called Fireworks CS6 which I purchased (£200) to do all our design work ie website, flyers, business cards and social media photos and it works really well (my profile pic created with it and so was our logo) so we don't really need anywhere to make them just advice on what to put on there etc
    • Marc Ollerenshaw > Geoffrey King August 14, 2016 at 10:18pm
      Click here to see our flyer that I designed on the software

      https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8YcKtSxQlYiSXRlcjQyOXJwX1k

      Let me know your thoughts
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        Geoffrey King > Marc Ollerenshaw August 14, 2016 at 10:30pm

        gonna say this big PROOF READ it

        what is 'timer decking'

        • Marc Ollerenshaw > Geoffrey King August 14, 2016 at 10:34pm
          Thanks god you both spotted that! Thank you! I'll get it sorted in the morning haha, they are being sent to print tomorrow afternoon as well so you saved us a costly mistake!
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            Geoffrey King > Marc Ollerenshaw August 14, 2016 at 10:50pm

            I would defo NOT put grass cutting from £10, it lowers peoples expectations of you

            and I mentioned proof reading, clearly you must talk very fast up there but I think you'd struggle with your 70+ word sentences on your website home page

            • Marc Ollerenshaw > Geoffrey King August 14, 2016 at 10:55pm
              Hi Geoffrey,
              I will be removing the grass cutting price in the morning.

              In regards to our website it is still a work in progress and isn't completely finalised, once we are finished I will instruct my wife (the smart writer) to proof read it and correct any mistakes.

              Thanks for all your input on the flyer and the website guys! This sure is a brilliant way of helping others!
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