30 Effective Business Card Marketing Tips

When it comes to marketing, sometimes all it takes is a little creative thinking to get a much larger return on your investment. There are many incredible ways to use your business cards besides just keeping them in your wallet and below is a great list of effective business card marketing tips. You will be amazed at how far a few thousand business cards can go when they are placed in the right location and given to the right people.

Many of the business card promotion tips below can be adjusted to fit any product or service. All you have to do is know your target audience, know your own business and think creatively! We hope this list will inspire you to make the most of your business cards.

Business Card Marketing Tips

1. Ask or pay local restaurants to let you place business cards near the checkout counter
2. Find other local businesses related to your product or service and leave cards at the counter
3. Stick some of your business cards on college campus bulletin boards
4. Create a viral video or photo that include your business card or create viral business card design
5. Pay college students to hand out business cards on different local campuses
6. Search for other public bulletin boards to leave your business cards on
7. Place business cards in doors or mail boxes of local homes
8. Partner with hotels to leave your cards in the hotel rooms of new residents
9. Mail your business cards along with other direct mail pieces to a targeted mailing list
10. Hire people to hand out business cards in high traffic areas such as in a city
11. Give your cards out to family and friends so they can give them away when needed
12. Network with other local business owners and exchange business cards
13. Offer people a finders fee and give them business cards to pass out
14. Hold a lottery with the lottery numbers printed on your business cards
15. Print business cards as mini holiday greeting cards
16. Mail business cards with promo codes that customers need to bring in to get a discount
17. Create a street team and give members business cards and other promotion items to hand out
18. Leave your business cards in public transportation such as on bus or train seats
19. Don’t forget to leave cards at the bus stops and train stations before you hop on
20. Get taxi drivers and companies to place a small holder with your business cards on the divider window of their cabs or on the seats
21. Staple a business card to any invoice or estimates you send out
22. Many neighborhoods have welcome wagons to greet new residents – see if you can include business cards for your service
23. Apartment buildings often give new renters welcome sheets with a list of recommended services – get on that list and print out cards for them to give away
24. Upload your business card design to online design galleries such as cardobserver.com
25. Post your business card design on classifieds such as craigslist.org
26. Make sure everyone who works for you has standard or personalized business cards – personal cards can boost employee morale
27. Give away business cards with every product you ship
28. Attend community events, network there and hand out business cards
29. Contact shopping centers and work out a deal so you can leave business cards on car windshields
30. Partner with real estate agents and agencies to get your business cards to new home buyers

Have you thought of any more creative business card marketing tips? Please post them in the comments below so we can expand this list!

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