Nothing screams amateur more than a cluttered business card, or as I see it, a miniature billboard. Although effective business cards need to provide three key pieces of information:
1. What your business is about
2. Your position
3. Your contact information.
It's best to keep your card simple and focused while providing enough information about you, and your business.
With today's means of communication, there are too many to list on your business card. Listing all of them will clutter you business card and dilute the effectiveness of it.
Imagine listing the following on your card:
Facebook profile
LinkedIn profile
Websites
Blogs
E-mail addresses
Instant messenger
Cell phone number
Office number
FaxAll this information, on a business card would be a mess, and it wouldn't fit unless you put some information on the back of the card.
So here's a way to keep your business card clean and professional looking, while having the necessary contact information.
Print your phone number and a means of contact for example:
A special contact website e.g: www.yourname.com (domains are cheap enough that can have one for the purpose of someone contacting you. You don't want to uses a long URL like your main website's contact page e.g. http://www.YourSite.com/contact-us.hmtl because, typing in a log URL is tedious, and it looks awful on a business card.
So with your own contact page you can put all the contact information you need and you can update it anytime with needing to change your business cards.
If you don't want to register a domain name, and create a contact page then use your permanent e-mail address, and include all your contact information in your sig file.
Whatever you choose, you'll have provided all the information someone needs to contact you, and your business card is clean and professional.
One of my personal cards reads:
Acey Gaspard
www.aceygaspard.com
That's it, simple and unlclutterd
That's The Way I See It!
Acey Gaspard
A Touch of Business.com
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