Create Your Business Cards Using Online Templates

Even if your business is based primarily through the Internet, you need professional business cards if you want to make a good impression. Business cards are portable, which means that you can take them wherever you go, and they frequently fall into the hands, pockets, briefcases and desk drawers of your target customer.

The bad thing about producing business cards is that they can get expensive. If you hire a professional graphic designer to create business cards for your company, you're looking at a minimum charge of $500. After that, you can hire a professional printing company to print your cards, which can add hundreds of dollars to the bill, depending on how many you want.

A great alternative, however, is to use online templates to create business cards. Some of these services are free, while others cost a nominal fee, but either way you save money. Not only do you gain access to a pre-prepared template, but you don't have to print a minimum number of cards that you might never use. If you run out, you can simply print a new batch when you're ready.

Using online templates to creative business cards might not produce the fancy results you would find with a professional graphic artist, but many of the templates you find online are surprisingly attractive. You can upload photos, logos and other information to customize your card, and with some Internet sources, you can manipulate the images using Photoshop, Corel, MS Word or the Gimp.

After trying out more than twelve Web sites that provide templates for business cards, I've narrowed my list of favorites down to the top four.

Free Business Card Templates

Although this Web site is unnecessarily cluttered with advertisements, the business card templates you can find far exceed much of the competition. You can select from multiple card designs in seventeen categories, with separate lists for corporate and textured cards. The graphics are professionally rendered, and it gives you the freedom to place your text wherever you think it should go.