How to Buy Cheap Business Cards
Everyone knows that running a business can be expensive and businesses of all sizes are always looking for ways to cut costs. Business cards can be a costly line item. Paying a print shop hundreds of dollars for 1,000 cards, although essential, seems excessive. Small business owners, entrepreneurs and just everyday people in general want to know where to get inexpensive business cards. Luckily, there are places to go for cheap business card printing.
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Call local print shops and ask how much they charge for 1,000 business cards. This will give you a barometer, so you can see how much you are or are not saving by using other means of printing. Make sure you are comparing apples to apples, so to speak. Are you shopping for single-sided black and white or double-sided full-color business cards? There can be a big difference in price.
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Decide if you are willing to print your business cards at home. By using Microsoft Word and some blank business card stock, you can literally print up your business cards at home. The best part about printing at home is that you can print as you go; if you need 50 cards, you can print them up and always come back for more later.
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Consider ordering business cards online. Vistaprint.com is a very popular business card source and actually offers free business cards. These business cards do come with a catch however--on the back of each card you will see Vistaprint's name and logo.
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Tips & Warnings
Ordering plain white business cards and only using one or two colors can greatly decrease the cost of printing. If you don't select a glossy coating or a multicolored logo, you should be able to get a pretty fair price.
