This week’s Micro Business Roundup features tips for successful out-of-the-box thinking, how to win customers for life, why posture might be the key to your success, and more. How to Pave the Way for Innovative Thinking — How can (or do) you encourage on-the-job innovative thinking? Here are a few tips from Open Forum. 3 [...]

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Tips Thursday: Seasonal Demand in Small Business

by Jason Keith on May 31, 2012

Since we celebrated Memorial Day on Monday and kicked off summer, the team started discussing how micro businesses experience seasonal demand and how they account for it. For this edition of Micro Business Tips Thursday, we asked our Facebook community if their business relied on seasonal demand. Our favorite response came from Roger Taylor. Roger says, [...]

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As a small business owner, you might think that an internship program isn’t something you should consider for your company. Why not? Many businesses, both big and small, can benefit from having an intern (or two) in the office. With summer around the corner, and graduations happening every weekend, here are five reasons to think [...]

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Find your business card personality! Browse fresh designs like the ones featured above by going to www.vistaprint.com/MyPersonality And to embed this image on your site, just click here.

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Building a Brand for Your Small Business

by Guest on May 25, 2012

This post was written by Lynne O’Connor, Senior Director of Client & Brand Strategy at Vistaprint. There is a lot of buzz about branding, and while it might seem to be the domain of large corporations, small businesses can harness the power of branding too. The fundamental principles are essentially the same whether you’re a [...]

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The Benefits of Business Cards

by Jason Keith on May 24, 2012

In honor of National Small Business Week, this week’s Facebook and blog posts have all centered around the first step to building a small business — business cards! For this edition of Micro Business Tips Thursday, we asked our Facebook community what they thought the biggest benefit to using business cards was, and we received [...]

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Must-Have Tips for Business Card Design

by Guest on May 23, 2012

This post was written by Keith Manning, a creative director at Vistaprint. 1. Start with a great logo. Logos have the near-impossible task of simultaneously saying everything and nothing about your business. Good logos depict a particular business attribute or industry commonality — like a tree for a landscaper, or scissors for a hair stylist. [...]

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31 Creative Uses For Business Cards [INFOGRAPHIC]

by Jason Keith on May 22, 2012

Ever think there were over 30 creative uses for business cards? Check out this fun graphic for inspiration! Click here for code to embed this image on your site.

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Business Cards: Essential For Small Businesses

by Jason Keith on May 21, 2012

In honor of National Small Business Week, we sat down with Don LeBlanc, Chief Marketing Officer of Vistaprint’s North American Business Unit, and asked him a few questions about business cards, and why they’re essential for small businesses. Here, he offers some valuable marketing insight: Why is building a brand via print and digital products [...]

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MBR: Cheers, to Tax Freedom Day?

by Jason Keith May 18, 2012

As the weather turns warmer, we are getting ready for summer which means BBQ’s, ice cream and the beach are on our minds. This week we have a variety of articles that peeked our interest, let’s call them a fruit salad of news. Hope you have a great weekend, and here is this week’s edition [...]

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