As you admire your new business design one last time before you initial Vistaprint’s online proof, take the time to ask yourself one very important question. If you were a stranger viewing that business card, would you know what your business was about? Often, the surprising answer is a resounding “No,” because business owners tend to try to create catchy memorable names for their companies, which don’t always give potential customers a concrete idea of what the business actually is.

If your business has a memorable name that doesn’t definitely tell people what services or goods you offer, now is the time to make a simple change that will let them know. You don’t even have to file paperwork for a new doing business as company name for this modification. Just create a tagline to go below the business name on the card that states exactly what you do. If you own Jane Doe’s Happy Tails, the tagline should state that it is a dog grooming service, a pet sitting service, or a company that sells artificial tails. If you are running John Doe’s A Cut Above, use a tagline to let people know whether you specialize in manicured lawns or perfectly groomed hair.

You have the sad and challenging task of designing funeral announcements for your loved one. How do you manage this overwhelming task when you are feeling so bewildered and grief stricken? It actually is simple to create a basic funeral announcement with VistaPrint’s step by step design options. To make a funeral announcement that shows your love and clearly tells recipients how to come pay their respects, you should:

 

• Select one of the designs that were specifically created for funeral announcements. This reminds you to include all the necessary information, such as where the viewing is being held.
• Consider personalizing announcements with a few photos of special memories. Seeing those better times remembered is so special for friends and family. It also encourages funeral guests to reminisce about similar memories they have. Creating an announcement with photos is as simple as choosing a design that includes an option to upload pictures and following a few quick and easy directions.
• Add additional information, such as a phone number for people to call if they get lost, using the advanced editing button. This option enables you to add more text boxes or rearrange the standard layout to meet your design needs.

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.