What should be a business card

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

Today there are a huge number of ways to present yourself, your team or company. So, you can create a website that will tell in all colors about the advantages of a particular team or person, you can stick ads on the pillars in the old way and tell about yourself in this way. But an ordinary business card can briefly, concisely and compactly present a person, his skills or a company in a completely unique way.

What is this

First, it's worth understanding the concepts. The term "visiting card" is of foreign origin, but despite this, it has perfectly taken root in the post-Soviet space. This is one way of self-representation of a person or his company. A business card contains a concise set of the most important information a potential client might need.

Standards

Making yourself a business card is easy and hard at the same time. It will not be difficult for anyone to simply come to the agency and order the right amount of these pieces of paper. But, wanting to get a quality product, you need to think through all the details. So, a business card has a standardsize - 5x9 cm. By the way, all card holders and card holders are designed to this standard. And on this small piece of paper, you need to try to fit as much useful information as possible, as well as a company logo or a photo of a person. In our country, most business cards are double-sided, but European business etiquette does not allow this. It is believed that the reverse side of a business card should be clean so that a person, if necessary, can write down the necessary or important, in his opinion, information.

Types of business cards

Wishing to make business cards for yourself, you should understand that there are several types of them. First of all, it is a personal business card that gives information about a particular person. Mandatory in such a business card are the full name and contact details of the person - phone number, website. Home address or job title can be optional. This document may also display a family crest or photo of the person, but this is also optional.

The next type of business cards is business. These are the most common business cards, because at business meetings or negotiations, it is impossible to briefly leave information about your company in a different way. It indicates the full name and contact details of the person who runs the company or enterprise, as well as the name of the company and logo.

Corporate business cards - the last type - most often double-sided, they are used mainly at presentations as advertising. The provided text should contain as complete information as possible about the company, contactdata, even a map is desirable.

Design

Personal business cards, as well as, for example, a family business card, do not have a strictly approved form and can have any design. Here you can decorate it however you like. But it is worth remembering the main rule that such documents should not be oversaturated with colors, because the main thing here is information that is important to the client. The business card of a team or enterprise should correspond to a certain style that is characteristic of the company. These business cards are strict, the least colorful and the most informative.