By: Chelsea Nicole
Submitted: 2011-12-12 20:19:29 | Word Count: 633
Did you know that business cards are a prime alternative tool for holiday marketing? That is right! All you need is a new customized design for your business cards primed for holiday marketing. Once you have that, you can then produce and use them in very specific ways this holiday season to get extra marketing and networking done. Let me explain to you exactly how this all works.
1. Holiday business card marketing – The process of holiday business card marketing is very simple. Armed with a fresh new batch of business cards with holiday themes, you can give out your business cards to the key people that you will most likely be meeting and marketing to. You can also have a provision to actually distributing them at random to people, but here is the main list that you should give out to.
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a. Give them to new acquaintances – Once you join those parties and family gatherings, you will no doubt meet new people. This can be something a bit close to home as your sister's new boyfriend, or it can be a bit far off such as your neighbour's gardener. These new acquaintances are great targets for your business card. Since you will be establishing a kind of initial relationship with them, your business cards are great for introducing yourself and getting some extra holiday marketing.
b. Give them away while travelling – Many people travel much in the holiday season. If you are one of these people, you have the chance to do some extra business card marketing on the side. By giving out your cards to some friendly strangers in the plane, or even the staff at checkout lines, stewards, clerks and secretaries you can spread the word about you and your marketing message. You will be exposing yourself to extra opportunities by doing this.
c. Give them anew to past and present friends/colleagues – Of course, there is no doubt that you will be meeting your present and present friends and colleagues this holiday season. When this happens, it is a good idea to present them with your newly refurbished business card. This helps you give out your new contact information of course, along with doing some subtle marketing on the side as well.
2. Print new fresher business cards – As was touched on above, you will want to print newer fresher business cards for holiday marketing. It must be vivid and vibrant like the season, and of course its main designs should match and be on competitive terms with other contemporary printed designs for marketing. This helps you gain attention as people will recognize that you are something new when compared to the typical business cards and marketing prints they see these days. So try to always get newer fresher designs to do business card marketing this holiday season.
3. Update your contact information – Finally, along with those new designs, DO NOT FORGET to update your contact information. Typically you will probably have updated one of your phone numbers and even your email addresses, Make sure that you change this for your business cards so that people will contact the correct number.
Along with that, you will want to add in fresh new contact schemes such as your official social network fan page in Facebook for example, or of course your twitter account. The more avenues for contacting you, the better for your business card marketing.
So? Why don't you try out some of these moves in holiday business card marketing? It will be a shame not to try it as this will give you some more extra opportunities and marketing avenues in this prime commercial holiday season.
