Digital Business Cards is basically the same as traditional business cards – they're made and exchanged over the Internet rather than traditional paper print. A good advantage of digital business cards above traditional ones is they enable making your contacts more interactive and therefore embed various features and functions into your card. Below are some points to consider when choosing a digital business card template.
The first thing you'll need to think about is whether to go with a paid service, or if you want to try and do it yourself. If you want to go with the latter, be prepared to search for a good quality digital business card maker (you can easily find this by doing a quick search on Google). You could save quite a bit of money by doing this yourself, although you may also have to sacrifice some quality. This is mainly because it's quite easy to accidentally damage or even erase your valuable digital business cards, so it's always better to be safe than sorry.
You can get a lot of useful information online nowadays, but that doesn't mean you should ignore printed material. Unfortunately, many businesses still use printed business cards to promote themselves. Why? Well, in theory, it's cheaper. However, in practice, many businesses aren't too keen on printed materials, as they seem to lack the ‘wow' factor that digital business cards do. That's not to say there aren't great looking printed business cards, as there is a lot of excellent quality business cards on the market, and these often come with a high price tag.
So what's the difference between digital business cards and traditional ones? Firstly, digital business cards don't use the traditional oval-card shape. Instead, they use an oblong shape that is slightly bigger and which has been designed in such a way as to incorporate the use of some very effective QR codes. The QR codes are small bars or rectangles which when scanned turn them into readable information, such as your website domain name or a contact email address.
QR codes are incredibly easy to use, and the really great thing is that they're already in use in lots of digital business cards. The reason for this is simply to provide quick access to your contact details. It's a well known fact that most people want to have access to contact details, whether that's through a phone call, a post or an email. As such, it's incredibly important to have access to these details quick and easy. And with a QR code, you can have access to these details in a matter of seconds.
Therefore, if you want to make a good impression, you really need to think about investing in some great quality digital business cards. I've seen some examples on the internet which look absolutely beautiful. They have an excellent design, and they're really effective at providing you with quick access to your contact details and other vital information. Best of all, they're really inexpensive, so are great value. So there's no excuse for you not to get some of these lovely little things.
