How to make a business card free, in about ten minutes
A walk through the free card maker: the details you type once, the design you pick, and the print file and digital card you leave with.
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Straight answers about visiting cards and business cards: making one, printing one, and the digital card that sits behind the QR code. Written from the product itself.
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Making a card
The free maker, the builder and what each one is for.
Visiting card maker: sizes and words for India and the Gulf
What a visiting card is called, the sizes that are normal in India and the Gulf, and the details people there expect to see on one.
Read it →Business card maker or builder: which one you want
The maker is a form that gives you a card in minutes. The builder is the full tool. Here is which to open, and how to move between them.
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Digital cards
The card that lives on a link and opens on a phone.
Share your business card without asking anyone for an app
Six ways to hand over a digital card so the other person has to do nothing unusual, and the one thing that makes people scan a code.
Read it →Paper card or digital business card, and what each does best
An honest comparison of a printed card and a digital business card, where each one wins, and why most people end up carrying both.
Read it →Digital visiting card: how it works and who it suits
What a digital visiting card is, how it is handed over in South Asia and the Gulf, and the trades where it earns its place fastest.
Read it →What is a digital business card, in plain words
A digital business card is a web page at your own address that opens on any phone with nothing to install. Here is what is on one and how it is shared.
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Printing
Getting a design onto paper, at a printer or at home.
Printers for business cards: what to send a local shop
How to choose between a home printer, a local print shop and an online press, what to ask each one, and the file that makes the job easy.
Read it →Business card print file: bleed, crop marks and a proper PDF
The five things a print shop asks for, why each one exists, and how to hand over a file that comes back the first time without questions.
Read it →How to print business cards at home and cut them straight
The paper, the printer settings and the cutting method that make home printed cards look bought rather than made, plus when to stop and use a printer.
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Cheap and free
What a card really costs, and what you can get for nothing.
Free business cards: what is genuinely free and what is not
Which parts of making, printing and sharing a card cost nothing, where the money starts, and how to tell a free offer from a trial in disguise.
Read it →Cheap business cards: what you are really paying for
Where the money goes on a printed card, which savings are free and which ones show, and how to spend less without handing over something flimsy.
Read it →Business card prices over a whole year, counted honestly
The costs people count, the ones they forget, and why the reprint is usually the largest line. A way to work out your own number.
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QR codes and NFC
The codes and taps that bring a paper card back to a screen.
Putting a QR code on a business card so it actually scans
Size, contrast, placement and what the code should point at, plus the two mistakes that make a printed code fail in somebody hand.
Read it →NFC business cards explained, and when a QR code is better
How a tap card works, what it costs you in practice, where it fails, and why most people get more out of a printed code than out of a chip.
Read it →How to track business card scans and see what brought work
Set up one tracked link per place you hand your card out, then read the counts honestly. What a scan means, what it does not, and what to change.
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Sizes and files
Millimetres, inches, bleed and the file a printer asks for.
Business card bleed and the safe area, in plain terms
What bleed and the safe area are, why a guillotine makes both necessary, and the five mistakes that produce a box of cards with clipped words.
Read it →Business card sizes in mm and inches, country by country
The four sizes that cover most of the world, what each one is in millimetres, inches and pixels, and how to pick the right one for your cards.
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By trade
What goes on a card in one line of work rather than another.
Real estate business cards: what an agent card has to do
An agent card is kept for months before it is used. What to print, what to put behind the code, and the mistakes that make a card get thrown away.
Read it →Business cards for small business owners in the trades
What an electrician, plumber or builder should put on a card, what to leave off, and the one thing that turns a card into a phone call.
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Your own card takes a few minutes
The maker needs no account. The digital card and its print files come from the same details you type once.