Are Free Business Cards Really Free?
by Brandon Hopkins
Published on this site: February 28th, 2006 - See
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You have probably seen advertisements for "Free Business
Cards" someone online. How could they possibly afford
to give away freebusiness cards without making someone, somewhere
pay?
It is a good question, and one I wanted to know myself. I
choose a company that offered so called "Free Business
Cards" and began to browse their website.
I first noticed that they didn't just have the free business
cards offer, but they also sold upgrades to the free package.
Is that how they make their money? Only off of the upgrades?
This particular company also sold magnetic business cards,
plastic business cards, metal business cards, and other types
of business cards. In addition to the business cards, they
also sold company letterhead, custom printed envelopes, and
other types of office stationery.
The free business cards offer was beginning to make a
little more sense.
I would guess that the percentage of people taking the free
business cards are mainly business people. Those people probably
also need envelopes, letterhead and other office stationery.
Maybe they make their money on the upsell.
But are they really free?
I decided that I should go ahead and order some of these
free business cards. This way I would know for sure whether
or not the business cards are really free.
I decided which company I would order from then went to the
order section
The first thing I had to do was design my business card.
After my design I got to the order section, are they really
free after all the work i did?
When I got to the final checkout, there were many options,
more upgrades available. I chose not to get additional cards.
Then I had to choose not to have my free business cards laminated.
After all of this, I found out that "Free Business Cards"
are really free!
Brandon Hopkins is the owner of http://www.Business-Cards-Free.com.
In this article he ordered his free business cards from VistaPrint
http://c.azjmp.com/az/ch.php?f=625&i=11681) who offers
the best free business cards. Brandon Hopkins can be contacted
through his website at
http://www.business-cards-free.com
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