One Traditional way to promote yourself and get your name 'out there' locally or nationally is by Visual Promotional Ideas. This blog post is designed to provide some teaching and help on how you can do that, and give you our experience and learning so you get more effective material.
Here is a link for you to get them at the least cost and most variety for YOUR choice - Business Cards and other stationery ideas including T-Shirts etc.
http://tinyurl.com/marknlouisebizmarketing
How to design your cards or choose a design:-
Here are some examples of business cards made up for several companies. These cards are pertinent to each distributor they were made up for.
' Tree of Life' and 'Rowling in Success' sell other complimentary products at local markets (NOT their company products) so their business card is designed to provide ‘sell information’ which they might not have time to cover if they have a wee chat about ‘other things they do or other things that might help people’.
The Beauty card is for a SISEL distributor who is in the beauty industry.
The company logo card is designed for when you have spoken to someone for business.
The Hand card is designed for product or health interested people.
The green leaf card was designed for impact and remembering and easy to find.
The jumping card is for a health business but designed for impact and easy to find and easy to remember
The horse card to appeal to horse lovers and horse industry for products for horses.
From the same website you can also get other business tools that you can create as the need arises - here are some examples of what we have created and used effectively.
Return Address Labels for envelopes etc
Promo Caps
Promo T Shirts
Make sure you have good quality company logos to put on your card - here are some examples of logos of the fgb companies (photos following).
All of the above were printed FREE OF CHARGE and the only cost we had was postage.
This company has offers ALL THE TIME and it is just a matter of waiting for the special you want to come up before ordering. Often the Business cards and Premium Business cards are FREE. Sometimes you can get all business cards for free AND glossy print for free!
We have used this company to create business cards for 8 years and they have been 100% reliable so we don’t hesitate to recommend them. We have recommended over the last 8 years to many many people and did not understand or utilise the ‘Refer a Friend’ benefit. We still don’t understand it BUT do have a ‘Refer a Friend’ number and if you open an account (FREE) with this referral number we will get a discount (not sure) but you still get the goodies for the same price (i.e. not any more) so thank you in advance for linking with us :)
HOW TO:
Here is our link: http://tinyurl.com/marknlouisebizmarketing
If you want to use Vista Print then you will need to open an account. If you open an account then change your account to YOUR COUNTRY.
Once your account is opened you can refer people too if you wish. Sign into your account and in the ‘My Account’ section and at the bottom in the blue bar click on the ‘Refer a Friend’ tab and go to the ‘Refer a Friend’ page. Follow the steps and they will email your link to you. Then you can use this same email for your contacts but just put in YOUR link rather than ours – that is if you wish, otherwise just leave as it and forward it so your friends etc when they need this wonderful service can benefit from it.
Some Tricks we have learnt!
Decide the PURPOSE of the item you want (e.g. a business card for business, or health or products or all three) and then it will be easier to come up with ideas.
Double check typing and spelling. Once ordered – it’s yours! They don’t check spelling or typing at all.
Only order what you NEED and don’t get side tracked into the ‘add on sales’ (that they are sssoooo good at) – unless you actually NEED them!
Only get SLOW postage because it is heaps cheaper and the few days extra is nothing to wait.
If you want free cards, order your free quantity and the compare the ‘add on sale offer for extra quantity’ against how many cards you need verses the cost of extra postage for the next 250 purchase – sometimes it is cheaper to get the extra 250 and sometimes it is not.
You can order several free items in the same order as long as they are different free offers (or different content on the cards I think). If you try and order 2 of the same special with the same info they will show a charge for the second one. If that is the case just order the second lot as separate postage order.
We hope this has been of benefit to you and will post further blog items like this soon. Thanks for clicking on our link to get the business tools.
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Live Long and Prosper, Mark and Louise
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