Vistaprint

This is a really useful offer which gives you professional colour printing and a great way of handing out your details to prospective contacts.

Vistaprint have been offering print services for some time now and supply around 8 million customers world-wide.  They offer a number of free printing products, you only pay for postage and sales tax. They do this because they think that once you see the quality of their printing, you will come back and pay for the next job. We did!

With the free business cards, if you choose the basic option you have 42 designs to select from and can add a reasonable amount of text.  Once you have signed up to their mailing list, they offer you extra incentives. Ours was 250 free cards using ALL their templates. We just missed out on their offer of 500 free cards so, stay on top of it, have text and images ready to go and next time they get in touch with you - get an even better deal.

As a test we had 250 yellow-green cards printed, using one of their templates. You just fill in your details, select if you want anything on the back (at an extra charge) and then pay online.  We selected the cheapest (longest time) postage and they actually arrived quicker than expected. So, we only paid for postage and local sales tax (VAT).  Actually, we did buy an extra note pad with our design on it - such a good deal - couldn't resist it - as we didn't have to pay any extra postage!!

Vistaprint seem OK about you doing this more than once - we know several organisations who have! They also offer other free products such as postcards, T-shirts, pens, magnets, etc.  They will keep sending you e-mails with 'brilliant, just for you, offers' which might be exactly what you are looking for, but you can always change your newsletter preferences and select one e-mail a week.

On the whole, an offer well worth considering if you need a few smart cards.

You can design and order your cards online and pay, instantly, with credit card, debit card or PayPal.