Magic Business Card Design

Business Card Layout

In January 2014 we briefly discussed business cards as they relate to getting people to your website in Magic Business Cards. The following month, February 2014, we discussed the website sign up form in a little bit more depth with Magical Uses for AWeber. What we didn’t discuss, however, is the actual business card itself.

Many of you have an eye for design. I do not. I’m currently training myself to have that eye, but it’s not there yet. I’m good at programming, creating and performing magic. I let other people do the stuff I don’t know how to do.

Hire a Designer for 5 Bucks!

I hire out all of my stuff that I don’t know how to do. For example, the banner for this website. I had some else design it. I gave him the text, tagline and some images of cards and my face. Oh and I gave him $5 bucks. He did the rest.

Yep $5 bucks. If you haven’t already heard of Fiverr, it’s about time you did. Fiverr is a community of people who will do just about anything for only $5 bucks. You’d be surprised the kind of talent you’ll find out there for such a small price. You guessed it; there are business card designers. Give them the details and a fiverr, and you’ll have a killer business card layout in a few days. Submit that to a website like Vista Print and for a few bucks more you’ve got a sweet set of very inexpensive business cards and/or letterhead, logos; you name it; it’s on Fiverr.

Beware of Bunnies

As I mentioned, I’m not the brightest layout guy. However, there are few things to watch out for. Bunnies, top hats, magic wands, capes, stars, swooshes . . . all things you should avoid. So make sure you tell your Fiverr guy not to use any of those elements.

Fiverr Users

I’ve used a few Fiverr users in the past for layout and design. However, my favorite so far has been Design2Thrive. He’s designed every banner I’ve got on all my sites that use banners.

However, it’s very easy to find solid talent on Fiverr by looking at the ratings. I just spent less than a minute and found Samina99

who has over 900 ratings and they’re all 100% positive ratings. You can see samples of his work on his profile page.