Professional Business Cards,

This is for any scrappers that do not have business cards and cannot see spending $ 30. or more on business cards, especially if your just starting out or only doing it part time. Just go to Walm*rt and in the office section there is a large envelope of Avery do it yourself business cards. # 28371. I think there's 100 to the pack, enough to get you started. Just go to Office Supplies: Office Products, Labels & More | Avery and download a nice logo and use a Microsoft Office template to make up your professional looking cards. They only cost around $3.59 per hundred, they are perforated, and you can also print on the backside if needed. It's a fairly cheap way to get your "business" started. I'm sure all the experts are gonna recommend V*staPrint, ya, the cards can be free but they'll hose you on the shipping!!!

Edit*- And they are changeable in what your doing, what you accept etc. You can put a nice catchy logo on them also.

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

This is for any scrappers that do not have business cards and cannot see spending $ 30. or more on business cards, especially if your just starting out or only doing it part time. Just go to Walm*rt and in the office section there is a large envelope of Avery do it yourself business cards. # 28371. Just go to www.avery.com and download a nice logo and use a Microsoft Office template to make up your professional looking cards. They only cost around $3.59 per hundred, and you can also print on the backside if needed. It's a fairly cheap way to get your business started. I'm sure all the experts are gonna recommend V*staPrint, ya, the cards can be free but they'll hose you on the shipping!!!

I have used these for years and think they're great. I only do a sheet or two at a time in case I want to change something, also print a sample on a regular sheet of paper and hold it up to the card stock to make sure everything is aligned properly before printing the final.

Might work for the average joe, but for me, I lost money on making my own. Just in INK alone!

I use FedEx Office. 1,000 double sided, up to 4 colors, uv coat for roughly $60. To me, it is not bad at all.

This is for any scrappers that do not have business cards and cannot see spending $ 30. or more on business cards, especially if your just starting out or only doing it part time.

George, reread my first post, that is exactly why I posted this. Not everyone can justify $60.00 or maybe more, I know I can't. I really don't see anything wrong with my cards, their colorful, informative of what I'm doing and cheap!!!

I use FedEx Office. 1,000 double sided, up to 4 colors, uv coat for roughly $60.

PS; My point exactly! Thank you,,,

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

George, reread my first post, that is exactly why I posted this. Not everyone can justify $60.00 or maybe more, I know I can't. I really don't see anything wrong with my cards, their colorful, informative of what I'm doing and cheap!!!

PS; My point exactly! Thank you,,,

You put your replies in the wrong areas, fyi.

Also, I wasn't stating that you MUST use fedex. I was stating what I use. To me, it is cheaper then me buying bundle $30 packs of ink. 1,000 lasts me quite a while.

Terry, they look good to me, but what do I know?? I'm just a lowly scrapper! LOL

Originally Posted by GeorgeB

Might work for the average joe, but for me, I lost money on making my own.Just in INK alone!

If being an average Joe sets me apart from you then I'm changing my name to KZJoe.

I don't see why you all take so easy defense on what I say. The stuff I say, is what WORKS for me. Nothing more, nothing less.

Same reason, you all offer up your opinions. If it works for you, to buy business cards at Wal Mart, Target, Staples, or wherever and print your own, then great.

To me, it didn't work out for me like that. It was to costly for me, so I decided to go with Fedex Office, spend roughly $60 and have 1,000 that will last me a good while.

Originally Posted by Bobby

@ geroge, in his original thread he said "especially if your just starting out, ... Or part time" the point of the thread was to offer a useful tip to someone who is not in the position, or doesn't have the desire to spend $50 -$60 +, there is no need to argue his point just because printing your own cards doesn't work for you.

And I know it has been mentioned before, but you joined this forum less than a month ago, and have IMO flooded it with useless posts, almost 300 in just a couple weeks and you ain't added any useful info. You have either been disagreeing with some ones opinion, or reposting information as your own tips for "newbies"

No offense but I have a hard time believing you as being knowledgeable in any are of scrapping or recycling. I could be mistakin but weren't you the one who asked what a gaylord was just about a week or two ago?

And honestly, please don't take offense, I could be wrong.. its been known to happen. I'm just tryin to let you know that some if the things you post/ the way you word things is really damaging any credibility you may have had, at least to myself anyway.

I was merely stating what I have done to save money long term. He is/was looking a cheap solution. If you look at long term, versus short term, it is very affordable, especially considering the cost of ink anymore.

I bought my current cards almost a year ago, and I still haven't gone through half of them, and I am always out.

There is plenty of ways to come up with $60 real quick.

When I started out, I did the same thing..bought cards from walmart, and ink. Next thing I knew, ink was outrageous, and the cards were good, but if they got wet, they were ruined, could tear easily, if you put them anywhere but your dash board, they could bend and tear easily, and so on.

I also made my suggestion, because if he chose to have a company do it for him, FedEX is the CHEAPEST. I called so many printing companies and it was all over $150 upwards of $300.

And no one was arguing. Simply giving out an idea, and a cheap method in the long run of doing business cards. Plain and simple, and yet everyone wants to see so many other things.

I don't disagree with anyone. Again, I just state my own experience or the experience of others near me that I know personally.

No one asked you to believe me. I am not here for some popularity contest or to make a gazillion friends. I simply did a search for a scrap metal forum in the hopes of finding better ways to make money than how I already am doing scrapping, and I have found a ton of information.

Also, I apologize since apparently I didn't know that a prerequisite to scrapping was knowing what a gaylord box is. Not like people at my scrap yard yell out the name 24/7.

That is why people ask questions, when they don't know something.

Again, I am not looking to gain credibility here. I was looking for information to make more money on my business, and I keep finding it here and there.

You, Kris Kringle, and thefatman, can all have your opinion of me, good or bad, as well as anyone else for that matter. Doesn't really bother me in the least.

Originally Posted by Kris Kringle

Thank You Bobby you have said it nicer then me. I have told a few others about his schemes. I have yet to see anything that has been posted that is a Orginal thought or Experience in the 285+ posts that has been posted Just a Rehash of Information that has been previously Posted by others on this Forum. Reminds me of that Cartoon Character Curious George.

And what schemes exactly would that be?

Also, this is a scrap metal forum, bases on 1 subject, and 1 subject only. It is not like other forums on the net that have more than 1 subject, so yes, a majority of the time, you will get the same type of information from everyone. We are all in the same industry, all from different parts of the country, and all have our own way of doing things.

If none of you like what I have to say, there is what is called a report post button, next to the thanks button.