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Get it together! Your marketing materials are important.

admin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:26:28 +0000

As a small business owner, your time and resources are limited. However, your marketing strategy should be a top priority. One of the easiest ways to covey professionalism is to have your marketing materials complement each other.

Your business cards, address labels, letterhead, envelopes, postcards, and pens do not need to march exactly. However, they should complement each other. Once you perfect your logo, decide what products you need most. Be sure to include all relevant contact information in the design , so it will be at your clients’ fingertips. The colors and themes should mesh nicely, and all your marketing materials should go with each other if they were combined in a package.

Having custom marketing materials is important, but it isn’t difficult to accomplish. For example, Vistaprint is a great resource for small businesses. Vistaprint makes it simple to design marketing materials. Simply upload your own creation, browse online galleries, or work with creative services to find the perfect design for your business. Vistaprint also offers free business cards, pens, and more. All you pay is shipping!

Customize your marketing materials today!

Holiday cards as a marketing tool

admin — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:13:57 +0000

Whoever said that businesses can’t send out holiday cards? As a small business owner, you value your customers and their families. The holidays are the perfect time to show them how much you appreciate their business. Create custom holiday cards to celebrate the season. Upload your own work of art or browse through hundreds of designs online. Inside the card, include a warm message along with a business card or special offer coupon. Try creating matching envelopes or address labels too! Show your appreciation to your customers this holiday season. You’re sure to keep them coming back!

Use Personalized Address Labels for Your Children’s Belongings

admin — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:25:43 +0000

Can I safely use personalized address labels on my child’s belongings?

You love putting address labels on your items to identify them, but you’re a bit hesitant to have your child’s full name and address on all of his or her belongings. However, your child has a very long name and writing it over and over on all of those notebooks, toys and other belongings is getting old fast. Isn’t there a way to use personalized address labels for your child’s things that doesn’t endanger his or her safety?

Personalized means just that. With customization tools, you can type more than the suggested address information on each line of the address label. “This toy belongs to:” replaces “The Smith Family” on line one and your childs name takes the place of the address information on line two. If you would like to put a phone number on the label, you can easily fit this information on the third line. If not, you may want to use this line to add another gentle reminder to light-fingered friends, such as “please return.”

To further protect your child from predators, think about where you are applying the new custom address labels. For example, a label adhered to the inside of a backpack or the inside flap of a book cover can only be read by someone who has truly found a lost belonging, while labels on the outside of the items are too easy for people who are just walking past to read.

Don’t Forget to Proofread Your Family Address Labels

admin — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:25:09 +0000

Do I really need to proofread my family address labels?

You type your information into the handy customization tool and quickly initial the space that says you are happy with the online label’s appearance. After all, there is no sense spending a lot of time going back over the information you typed in. You know how to spell your name and you’ve lived at the same address for four years. Now, all you have to do is sit back and wait for your new family address labels to arrive. Finally, the labels are here and they don’t look like cheap address labels at all. They’re gorgeous! You take a closer look and see that your last name is now Smiht. You transposed the “t” and the “h” and didn’t even realize it.

Proofreading may seem like a big waste of time, especially when you are typing something like your name, but it is so easy to transpose letters when you are in a hurry.

Look over the entire text and then go through it backwards. Sometimes, our brains automatically correct what we’re seeing on the page and we miss a word that is spelled incorrectly.
Ask someone else to take a quick look, too. He or she may notice an error that you missed.
Only initial the proof after you’ve really done a thorough review of the information you’ve typed in.