If your business card is dull & boring and you are looking for a way to spruce it up then look no further here are some easy ways to make your business card look more appealing.

1. Induce some colour, there is nothing worse than a plain black & white business card
2. Include a picture, ever heard the saying a picture says a thousand words? well a well placed image can let your potential client exactly what you do by just looking at your business card
3. Unclutter your card, i cant tell you how many times i have been given a business card with all the information squeezed together, your business card should point out exactly what you do just by glancing at it.

Choosing what to put on your business card purely depends on the type of business you run, if you run a large mail order business you may want to include your order number, personal phone number, website & address however if you run an online company you may want to just put your email address, website address & phone number. We personally recommend you have at least all this information on your business card(s)

1. Your Name
2. Business Name / Website Address
3. Telephone Number
4. What your Business does.
5. Country
6. Address

if you don’t already have a company logo then putting one on your business card is a great place to start, it will make your card stand out and if your logo is good enough people will actually like it. Below is a quick way to make a business card logo with Adobe.

1. Write your business initials or business name
2. Choose a suitable colour (not black or white)
3. Go to Actions Panel
4. Choose your text layer and then play the action cast shadow
5. There you have it a simple logo

After our first set of business card templates we have decided to offer some more generic business cards that you can basically fill in your name & contact information, these business card templates will work fine for most businesses and are very easy to use.
http://www.businesscardland.com/home/free-templates.html

I would not recommend making your own business card unless you have a firm idea in place and think you can pull it off and are talented with photoshop or another graphic design program, try to source out designers who can put your thoughts into art, there are literally thousands of good business card designers on the net and they will design you a cracking card for as little as $10 right upto $1000, but price doesn’t always mean quality, here are some ways to find the right designer for your business card:

1. Hold a competition on a large webmaster forum, these sites can be very active and contain some very talented designers simply put together your ideas for the business card announce a cash prize and watch the designers put in their entries and choose the best one, this way you can pick from multiple designs for the price of one, if you have a high cash prize the chances are you will get more entrants.

2. Search Forums/Sites for recommendations, the Internet is a wealth of knowledge and if you are looking for a business card design then you should use this to your advantage, people always like to recommend good designers & designers always show off their latest works of art.

3. When you find the right designer always ask them to do more than one mock up of your idea, tell them you want to see the design in different colors and fonts, this way you can mix and match the ones you like and give the designer a better idea of exactly what you want.