So you want a new business card but you either:
1. Don't know how to design one yourself
2. Don't know anyone that you can get to design the business card for you
3. Don't have the time or money to get a graphic designer to design one for you
Well All is not lost my friend, these days if you didn't already know you can quite easily design your business card online, yes online.
There are a few advantages to designing your business cards online as opposed to paying a graphic designer to design one for you.
Advantages:
1. You really don't need to know anything about graphic design programs to design yourself a great business card online. In fact a lot of the sites out there that offer online business card templates are so easy to use all you really need to know how use is a keyboard and you can get a great business card printed.
2. You don't need anything except the information you are going to be putting on the business card with most of the sites out there, some of the sites use business card templates that you can upload a background picture to so for these sites you will need an image for the background but most of the business card templates out there don't even require this.
3. The most obvious of the advantages of using an online business card template is the price: you save all the money you would have had to pay a graphic designer to design your new business card and this is something we can all agree is a plus.
4.Time, time matters and without a doubt you will save time using and online business card template. Most of the online templates simply require you to select the business card template you wish to use then simply type in your details and add it to cart and your done. There are some online systems out there that take on average 3 minutes or so and your done and once again i think we can all agree this is a plus as well.
But like all things online business card templates are evenly weighed with disadvantages as well. And these include:
Disadvantages:
1.You save time using and online business card template but the end design although a lot of them are great is not specifically designed for you. Now a lot of the time this really doesn't matter so long as the card looks great and is readable but for some business's this just isn't enough. For example a photographer shouldn't use an online business card template unless it is a system where you can upload your own image.
2. Using an online business card template with a company you have never used before runs the risk of the card being substantially low resolution ( which seems to happen a bit with online print systems ) so you could get an unusable card back, but this isnt every time but i have heard it does happen . So try to get some word of mouth from someone before going ahead with your business card at a new printer.
In the end your going to save time and money with and online business card template design but you don't get a product that's taylored for your company and as i said sometimes this is ok while other times its not, this is something you will need to work out. Good luck
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