Vistaprint Calendar - Early Bird Catches the Worm

I know you are probably busy shopping and thinking about the holidays, but you should also plan for getting your business off to a good start in 2008 by ordering marketing materials from Vistaprint.com in December so that you can distribute in December and January.

Remember that the early bird catches the worm. Every year I receive a few calendars in the mail and I always keep a few calendars in convenient places around the house next to the phone, on the refrigerator, on a desk, etc. I appreciate the free calendars and remember the businesses that send them to me. However, once all of my “calendar spots” are taken by free calendars and calendar magnets, I throw away any new calendars I receive. So it is important to be a little early rather than a little late with your business marketing materials and calendars.

It makes the difference between spending a year in a potential customer’s home versus being tossed directly into the waste basket and wasting your marketing efforts. So check out Vistaprint.com today and pick out that perfect calendar to promote your business for all of 2008.

Make it Personal this Holiday with Vistaprint

Rather than simply sending your business customers a plain holiday card this season, try something different to show that you cared enough to personalize the gift.

First, make a personalized photo card with a picture of you and your staff. I always like to associate a face to a name and it helps my customers relate to me as a real person. Real estate agents do a great job of getting their name and face out in the community and you should consider doing so as well for the benefit of your business.

Next, make personalized note cards and notepads with the name of the recipient. Since my customers can use these personalize note cards for their everyday usage, they enjoy the token personalized business gift and remember me because I include a matching or coordinating sticky note pad that includes my business name and contact information.

So the customer sees my face on the card, receives a personalized notepad for themselves, and keeps a sticky pad with my name on his/her desk.

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Holiday Photo Cards

With the holiday season just around the corner, now is the time to plan and order that perfect holiday photo so that you can mail cards out to family and friends in early December.

And Vistaprint.com makes it easy and fun with a wide selection of photo and collage cards so that you can upload or insert your favorite pictures. And with a little planning, you can make a fun photo for everyone to enjoy.

I always keep personalized photo cards every year and throw away generic regular cards. And the cuter the photo, the better, and the more likely I am to remember the sender. A few years ago I received a snowman holiday card from my nephew BJ at the beach where he stood next to a sand snowman with a scarf, hat, carrot nose and button eyes and mouth with the greeting “Christmas in Los Angeles.” It was an adorable, memorable, but yet simple idea that my sister executed with a little forethought and planning.

And with Vistaprint’s help, you can make that perfect memory to share with others.

Vistaprint.com Free Stuff

When your business is starting up or cash flow is tight, saving a few dollars and taking advantage of free business items helps overcome the inertia and excuses.

“Free” business cards and other “free” office and marketing materials like rubber stamps, sticky notes, return address labels, magnets and postcards help you control limited expenses, Vistaprint.com is just right for your budget with many free items to choose from (with payment of shipping and handling).

And someday when your business is prospering, Vistaprint.com offers many premium items to choose from to market and promote your growing business.

Where do all the free t-shirts go?

T-shirts are one of those items that you never have enough of. I love receiving free t-shirts. Although I do actually buy some t-shirts myself, I get most of my t-shirts for free from various company sponsored events. I know that company branded t-shirts are free advertising for the company, but I wear the t-shirts out around town as I run errands, go to the gym and other places where I want to be casual. The funny thing is that I rarely (if ever) see someone wearing the same t-shirt as me (or even one of my other t-shirts at home). It makes me wonder – where do all of the free t-shirts go?

High-quality t-shirts from VistaPrint.com are a great way to market your business or send as a gift. They have 24 great designs for you to add your company name to. You can get a free one today and pay only for shipping and handling. If you like the free one, then you can make more to give away to customers and friends and you will get free advertising.

Try it today! I’m sure you can fit one more t-shirt into your t-shirt drawer. And if you like the free t-shirt, you may have discovered a new opportunity to market your business.

Customized Note Pads

I use VistaPrint for holiday calendars for my family, and personalized note pads for my employees and anyone else I need to give a personal, affordable gift too.

At that point I realized that everyone would like and appreciate VistaPrint’s customized printed gifts, so I made different gifts for employees and family members. However, one thing to remember is to make all of the gifts different - and Vista Print makes it easy to do so by adding customized touches with many options to choose from to make the gift just right. For each employee and family member, I use different colors, font styles, emblems, etc. so that each gift includes the personality and favorite colors of the recipients.

Everyone really enjoys the cards because they are customized with their names, initials, pictures and other personal touches which makes everyone feel as though I cared enough to think about their gift, to make it different from others and to order it in advance (so that they know that they were not a last minute gift certificate or transfer gift).

The customized note pads, calendars, and other stationary products have become so popular that recipients have asked me where I purchased them.

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Simple Happiness from Customized Note Cards

Since I was a child, I always enjoyed pencil boxes, stationary and customized paper products, which is why I started by purchasing customized VistaPrint note cards for myself and spouse. I actually enjoy just looking at the cards (because they are so pretty) and think about my childhood when I found such happiness and satisfaction in the simplest items such as pencil boxes and stationary.

My husband enjoys using the cards to send personal notes to family and friends and uses the personalized note cards to send “thank you” notes and other generic notes whenever he is too lazy to actual go out a buy an event specific card. After a few weeks, my husband admitted to me that the customized VistaPrint note cards were really thoughtful and useful gifts and he asked me to show him how to make personalized items so that he could give them to others. Coming from him, imitation was the greatest form of flattery and the highest compliment of all.

Here is a link to get 10 free note cards from Vistaprint.com.

Vistaprint.com's Free Business Cards

When my small business was just starting out, I discovered the free business cards offered by VistaPrint. Although I was a little skeptical at first of anything that claimed to be “free,” I thought to myself, if I only pay for shipping, I’ll try the “free” business cards to see the quality for myself. And since my small internet business was just starting out, “free printing” was just the right price to fit my budget. I really could not afford to purchase business cards “in bulk” as was necessary from the office supply chain stores, and the smaller local office suppliers were too expensive for my small quantities.

VistaPrint’s technologies are fully automated, which allows for lower costs even at smaller quantities, which mean that VistaPrint customers like me benefit from lower prices while still getting higher quality printing. I have found that VistaPrint offers a great customer experience without the hassle of expensive designers. CouponB.com has a list of their free products including the business cards.