Making Your Real Estate Business Cards

As with any type of business, you need a quick and easy way to share your contact information with someone if you want to talk further with them or they want to contact you again. Though there are many new ways that you can reconnect with someone after an initial meeting, business cards are still one of the best ways to give someone all of your contact information at once. They can then contact you when they need you through whatever means works best for them. If you sell homes, you want to make your real estate business cards effective and attractive. You don't want to hand out anything less.

One of the most important parts of the real estate business cards you want to make is going to be the picture you use of yourself. Though most business cards do not include pictures, those in real estate often use their own face as a marketing technique. This works well in this business for many reasons. You want a good, clear picture of your face. You want to smile. Have a simple, uncluttered background (one color is best) and a smile on your face. You do not have to have these professionally done, though that is not a bad idea.

You want to have a simple layout for your real estate business cards, but that can be hard when you have to include a picture. You want to size your picture so that your face is recognizable but does not take up any more of the card than you can afford to give up. This is what makes laying out these cards a bit hard. Experiment with your layout until you come up with something that is functional but that leaves you enough space to add the rest of your information, and there is going to be more to include than there use to be.

The contact information that you want to include on your real estate business cards is going to be up to you, but you want to give people as many ways to reach you as you can. The days of just including a telephone number are long over. You should also include your email address. If you do not have an account for just business communications you should set up one. Also include your business phone, cell phone, and any online way to reach you such as a web site or professional network link. Everyone is more comfortable with one way of communication so if you give them options they can use the one they like the best.

Printing out your cards on your own is certainly an option that you can explore. You can do your own real estate business cards at home if you have a good program to lay them out and a quality printer. You can also find many great companies online that can print these up for you for a very reasonable price. Look around for the best deal and see if you find a web site for a local company that can hook you up with a great deal. You won't have to pay for shipping that way, and your order will be available much more quickly.