Hell all, I am wondering the best place to get cars made, i will be joining west usa realty and need some cards who do you recomend for nice full color cards?
thanks
steven

I get my cards from OvernightPrints.com

Cheap and great quality.

Overnight Prints is very good and I have also used Pelican Print. Both very good, fast, and inexpensive.

Try your local print store. I got my cards there and very happy. I paid $70 for 1,000 card, which are like cardboard. Very high quality. They never bend and you can write on them.

I use very few cards as my main business is with corporate REO clients that I never meet in person. I do use a few for the buyers that call on my listings and in general don't work with other buyers. What few I need are very basic, generated on my computer in a MS Word program, and printed on Avery (or equal) blanks that snap apart in standard card size.

Try Vistaprint (on line). I have used them for years. I use my cards all the time and am always restocking my supply. The results are obvious when I see people searching for me on the internet.

I used to use a company that would do 2 sided, full color with rounded edges and extra thick so they stuck out, but i dont remember who it was, its been a few years. anyone have a good inexpensive company you know of that meets those?

overnightprints.com does two sided, thick glossy - I ordered ones with rounded edges once but didn't like them (the rounded edges). The die cutter was "off" or something.

I like the regular double sided ones though, with a nice glossy uv coating.

Use the same Company as the Brokerage that you are joining. They will have all of the artwork and matching inks to do the best job in a short time frame and cheap. You can search for a better deal later when; but don't waste your time now on this nickel and dime stuff when you know you'll be getting the correct (final) product altered many times in the beginning.

I didn't like the job my brokerage's company did! The guy took it upon himself to "fix" my photo - I submitted a black and white photo with soft focus and gentle tones. He boosted the contrast incredibly to "sharpen the image" as somehow, he figured I didn't WANT a soft focus...by boosting the contrast so much, he turned my lovely soft photo into a newspaper quality mug shot, with my hair as black as the background - thus I look like a stark white face with no hair, floating in blackness.

The thing that got me was - he didn't ASK if I wanted this, he didn't send me a proof for my approval, he just printed up 1000 business cards like that.

Everyone can make mistakes but the fact that he altered what I gave him without permission or consulting me was enough for me to say BAH! Go local? Not a chance - at least when I submit something to OvernightPrints.com I will get what I submit.

Grrrr

WELL Perky, I know you didn't pay for those Scary Cards, did you ? ? ?

Steven Davis hasn't finished taking classes in preparation for the Arizona Exam yet; so I think he can take his time and settle on a Broker first, and THEN see if he likes the Printer who has that Firm's Logos, Artwork, Correct Phone Numbers, Address, etc.

Step by step; inch by inch.

I do recall someone having Business Cards printed up that had the Phone Number wrong and did not notice for 3 weeks after she started using them.

I use a local printer. My brokerage has a printer, but, I do not like their cards. I found a card that I liked and gave it to the printer and came out with my card. My first printing was a little higher than most, but the reprints are cheap. I just email them now and order cards. They fax over a proof, I approve it and they show up at my office with a bill.

I would suggest though that you get a proof of any card you order and have your broker approve the proof as well. Their are certain things that have to be on the card to comply with regulations.

No, I didn't pay for them - the brokerage did (my first set is paid by the brokerage) I used them until I could get my good ones ordered (which interestingly enough, don't have my picture on at all - I went totally different and used a beautiful landscape shot of the Delaware River - I get a LOT of comments on the card, and it does stand out from all the other identical cards.)

Now I use these crappy cards, what ones I have left, when I have to leave cards behind at listings or give a card at a security gate to get into a community.

I am a fuss pot - sort of. I'm very easy to please, as long as things are done the way I want them.

Given the average life of a business card, which I don't perceive to be very long, and the fact that most of clients being AMs for REOs across the country which I never meet in person, I have a relatively low budget card. At this point the typical 1000 purchase would be a life time supply. I use a few for the prospective buyers that look at my listings (and don't spend time showing other listings as I decline to be involved in buyer agency) and sometimes include them with letters to clients and vendors.

Very basic: On the front my name in the same script typeface I use on my signs and other printed materials; regular text for address, e-mail and 'phone/fax numbers. Name in red, all else in blue, on white background. Back side is plain text in black on white showing my professional affiliations (including both ML services) and the fact that I am a HUD certified broker for selling those properties. I print them 20 or 30 at a time as needed on Avery (or equal) prescored blanks.

Call me cheap if you want to, I think of it as thrifty!