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Depends on what you want: 1-2 colors, full (4) colors, are you paying someone to design, or will you upload the design yourself, etc. If you are sensitive/picky about color quality (e.g., you are doing heavily designed or photo card), you will want the color of your finished goods to closely match what you saw on screen, then go with someone who offers digital printing. The color mgmt of offset printers varies by shop and the equipment. IMHO, HP Indigo digital presses appear to have the best color mgmt thus far. http://www.moo.com (as you can guess they use HP Indigo) http://www.123print.com/Business-Cards http://www.overnightprints.com/businesscards

These are the ones I've checked out: 48 Hour Print - http://www.48hourprint.com/ Vista Print - http://www.vistaprint.com/ (not to be confused w/ Windows Vista And another creative site I'd recommend checking out is http://www.moo.com/ -- they've got a lot of creative sort of cards. Not necessarily great for business cards, but can work well as thank-you notes and things of that nature.

I highly recommend Moo cards -- they do small runs for relatively cheap, and let you customize the backs with photos or any design you want! http://www.moo.com/

I designed my own using http://www.moo.com. They've got a quick tool for making simple font/color/text choices, which were enough to meet my simple needs. The best part though, is that they'll print however many designs you want, evenly distributed across however many cards you order, at no additional cost. This has led to me a/b testing my card designs:) I order cards 50 at a time, and order 3 or 4 variations. Then, when people ask for my card, I tell them that I'm a/b testing my cards, pull out a couple, and let them choose the design they like the most. It's a great conversation point, a good way to talk about my love for user testing, and I'm gradually honing in on a design people seem to like (I'm on my third batch). P.s. If you're a hacker (or someone else) that hasn't haven't ordered personal business cards, you should. I can't believe how many I ended up giving out, and how much easier it makes making business connections when I meet people. Well worth the 30 minutes and $27. I wish I'd done it a year sooner.

Amazon gift cards - in their local currency - is a fairly easy one. Depending on your relationship with them, a subscription to an online learning platform like Pluralsight. Voucher codes for professional services like Moo are also useful https://www.moo.com/uk/gifts/cards/ $84 would pay for a year of GitHub Pro - but I don't know if you can buy it on someone else's behalf. What a great question though!

Build your network and nurture it. Then, after a while it will come along nicely. I run my business in the field of chemical properties, fluid phase equilibria, so really a niche market, but every year, I send a card to all my contacts in the field (100+ cards) and I try to write a personal note for each person. I takes time, but it now a kind of tradition I do not want to break (started for 2008). On the back of the card, I have a link to a summary of my year and what is coming next. 80% of my contracts are coming after such card. Front of my 2015 card: http://ceondo.com/media/files/img/2015-small.jpg I use Moo to print the cards, quality is great and service excellent. This is a referral link, just remove the /share... if you do not want to follow the referral. http://www.moo.com/share/28nw8g

Take a look at Moo - they've a nice API too. http://www.moo.com/

It doesn't fit in a Rolodex, because it doesn't belong in a Rolodex! (http://youtube.com/watch?v=4YBxeDN4tbk) I use plain, white, unlaminated business cards from Moo (http://www.moo.com), because they're cheap and they're easy to write on. These business cards are much prettier than my own, but I write extra information on business cards and that'd be impossible on most of these. Maybe they're memorable enough that I wouldn't have to write on them.

Good idea for business cards like this. Could leverage multi-design printing such as Moo's Printfinity[0] (allows for a different design on every card). [0] - https://www.moo.com/uk/about/printfinity.html

on a guess, possibly this : https://www.moo.com/us/ (site for post, business and everything cards)