How to Create Business Cards for Personal Trades

Creating business cards for your personal trades is a simple way to demonstrate the professionalism of your service or product. Personal trade business cards reflect the product or service to be rendered and contact information. There are a myriad of ways to communicate this message through your creativity and the use of marketing.

Things You'll Need

• Computer
• Your contact and business information
• Print shop or a printer and business card paper

Instructions

1. Decide what information you want on the card. Traditionally, the information present on a business card is your name, company name, and contact information.
   You can make general business cards that do not specify a certain individuals name.

2. Decide what size and shape to make your business card. You could use the traditional rectangle, a square or any shape that the print shop or printer paper has to offer.

3. Organize your information in a manner that is pleasing to the eye and easy to read. Since a business card is so small try not to have excessive information on one side of the card, take advantage of the back of the card. And remember the value of white space (i.e.blank space on the card, it is more pleasing to the eye for something to be orderly and symmetrical than busy and overloaded)

4. Print your business cards by using a computer program or by sending your design to a print shop. Print shop clerks will be able to give advice and help you in your decision making process.

Tips & Warnings

• Business cards should reflect very clearly what your business is. Show your business card design to a friend who is unaware of your business concept to see if your design translates your message.

• When ordering business cards from a print shop typically the more you purchase, the price per card lowers. Keep in mind a realistic quantity to avoid overspending on business cards that will go unused.