Monday, October 3, 2011

20 Unique ways freelancers can use business cards to find new design clients















Business cards are important for designers to have. They sum up what services/products you offer and how somebody can contact you on a small piece of paper. However, most designers don’t take advantage of their usefulness. They usually sit at home or in their pocket, never in the hands of somebody else.
Don’t let them go to waste by using these unique ways to distribute your business cards and gain more clients. (If you have any to add, we’d love to hear your ideas!)
1.     Leave a business card on a mirror in a bathroom
2.     Include your business card with your tip at a restaurant
3.     Have your family and friends carry your business cards on them
4.     Put a few business cards on community bulletin boards
5.     Leave your business card in books pertaining to your business
6.     Have your business card be your email signature
7.     Leave a few business cards on coffee shop tables
8.     Include a business card in everything you mail out
9.     Place your business card in public phone books where your industry is listed
10.  If you travel, leave a business card at the hotel before you leave
11.  Buy a creative business card holder and display them at a local business
12.  Use them as a name tag at social events
13.  Leave a business card in public newspapers
14.  Use your business card as discount or coupon for your service/product
15.  Give extra business cards to your prospective client
16.  Give a business card to your taxi driver
17.  Leave a business card in an interesting place on the bus
18.  Give a business card to each of your professors
19.  Leave a few business cards at a public library
20.  Leave them in the keyboards of computers at a computer store

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