Business cards

[Goya]

I'm in the process of getting a few business cards made up & wondered what people here put on theirs with regards to job role & business address.

I'm not sure I want to put down consultant, seems to be a derided word. I'm thinking of not putting a job role on the cards.

Business address - don't really want my home address listed (partly as I'm in the process of moving). I could put another address down (partner's business address), or again, just leave it off (although perhaps there's going to be a lot of white space now!).

What do you lot do?

[thunderlizard]

It's pretty fashionable not to have a job title on a business card now. Mine says 'Consultant' though. Business address on mine is our actual office address, but if you haven't got one you can use a virtual office. Having no physical office at all would probably make you look a bit feckless.
Other than that, our corporate logo along the top and some vendor cert logos down the side.

[ratewhore]

thunderlizard is right. I have no title on the card and pay a ton a month for a virtual office.

A good company to get your cards from is www.streetcards.co.uk. I seem to remember I paid less than a tenner for 25 cards and I just get another 25 when I need them...

[Pondlife]

http://www.vistaprint.co.uk

250 cards for less than a tenner. For that price, if they're crap you can bin them but mine were ok.

Edit: Oh but I'd add their email address to your spam list afterwards otherwise you get invited to reorder stuff daily.

[Mustang]

When I set up my company, I took out a PO Box at the local sorting office. It's only £50 a year (charged to the Co) and I put that on my business cards and put it on my cards and compliments slips. All Co mail goes there except from my accountant who sends it to home.

My registered company address is my accountants office so that all tax correspondance goes directly to him.

For an extra £50 the Post Office will deliver the PO box contents to your home but I go and pick it up. The local sorting office are great and I usually buy stamps and all other postage issues (recorded delivery etc) from them directly. Saves me having to queue up in the Post Office with all the pensioners collecting their money!!

[TheMonkey]

I don't have business cards and I use my home address.

Never harmed me (Apart from the director from one contract gig appeared on my door one day begging me to renew).

[Goya]

Thanks, I think I'll go with no job role & will use my wife's business address.

I was also thinking of using an 0870 number & sticking this one the cards. Any recommendations for where to get one? I normally use flextel, but they don't seem to route 0870 numbers to mobiles.

[Lucifer Box]

4tel have sorted me out. No complaints from me.

[TheMonkey]

I'd go 0845 - You lose about 10%-15% of callers by having an 0870. I have an 0845 to my land line where my dispatcher dispatches work to me (between sexual favours).

[oraclesmith]

I got some cracking 0844 numbers from 4tel for my Plan B project. About £5 each.