1. Hire a professional design firm / freelancer
   Where you go, when you have to repair your car?
   To professional car repair services! That's right.
   Always use professional services from the people who are best in it. Knowledge and experience come with time so invest your money on the professionals who do the best and are experienced in the designing field. They will cost you a few dollars but gives you 100% satisfaction of mind and business. Business growth demands creativity and the right design approach to showcase the brand to the world.


2. Business card Shape
   Due to printing enhancements, traditional credit card shaped business cards has gone through many creative changes. Businesses are not restricted to rectangle shapes and they are trying modern extremely creative designs in different sizes and shapes possible to present their business identity. But be very careful in choosing the right business card shape for your business it can make or break the client impression towards your business. Sometimes innovations can harm the brand imagery, if not sure which size or design to choose to go for traditional rectangle style business cards.


3. Provide correct Information
   Always think about what exactly you want to put in your business card. Proofread the information provided in the business card before the final approval of printing. Due to small font sizes their remains a fair chance of human error. Check your company name, personal name, contact information email address that everything is good. One misspells in email- id can give you big customer loss, the message will bounce and all your efforts to bring the business will be useless.


4. Readability standards
   Avoid clutter by keeping only the necessary information on your business card. Strike the balance between text, visuals and suitable positions where the company logo, address, email, names will come. Be wise in choosing text size, not less than 8 points on any condition or the readability issues will come.


5. Typography
   Choose the font which is clear and readable, avoid choosing fancy fonts. Stay in harmony with your website fonts or choose something like Arial, Serif like fonts. We know that with modern typography great creative standards can be achieved but shabby fonts and text effects can create a bad experience for the client.


6. Material choice
   You will get a vast amount of printing material choices from online or offline service providers. Plain, transparent, plastic, glossy, shiny, glittery whatever your choice is you will get that kind of material for your business card. But always think about your business offerings before choosing the card material as glittery card material can suit to fashion business but not to technology guys. Choose the card material as per your budget and designs.


7. Printing advancements
   Technological advancements have taken the printing of business cards to new levels. Forget the plain simple boring colors now printers are giving you choices of Embossing, Letter pressing, UV coatings, Laser Cutouts, Special colors. Create a lasting impression on your next client with these creative stylings and ask your printer for the best.


8. Final printing
   It is the most important and final part of the business card finalization process. Proofread again and give a final check to text, color, font, and logo. Most importantly put the markings of a safe area, trim area and bleed area in the business card design. Mostly printers advise leaving a 3mm bleed area with the same background color as the business card.

In printing, bleed is printing that goes beyond the edge of where the sheet will be trimmed. In other words, the bleed is the area to be trimmed off. The bleed is the part on the side of a document that gives the printer a small amount of space to account for movement of the paper, and design inconsistencies.