Avie Paper Products

I meet a lot of people who have websites or shops on sites like Etsy and DaWanda but they do not have a business card. Let's all work together to change this okay? Maybe indie artists and designers feel uncomfortable passing them around but really it's how we can maintain contact with those we meet on the street. Don't be shy! It's okay to be proud of your business and to share what you're doing that makes your little heart sing and beat extra hard!

I think women tend to hold back a little sometimes, don't you? Maybe the idea is that? offering a business card comes across as desperate or aggressive perhaps? Do you think that this is the case? I don't believe so. I think people want to know who we are and how they can reach us after the conversation if they need to. Most of us are so forgetful and busy that cards actually help us to remember prior conversations. Many times I've had great conversations with people and days later wished I could remember their name but because they didn't give me a business card and my memory failed me, I was unable to get in contact with them.

When I spoke at the DaWanda blogging event a few weeks back in Berlin, lots of people asked me how to offer a business card in conversation without coming across a bit arrogant or pushy. I advised that you can simply hand someone your card after an introduction is made and say, "If you'd like to stay in touch or reach me online, here's my card", and that's pretty much it. I find only about 40% of those I'm meeting in Germany who run a small business online have an actual business card. Many at the DaWanda event did not have a card and I wish they had because I met so many that I would have loved to have looked up online now.

Don't have business cards... Now to get to the real meat of this post. How to change that for $15 or less! :)

Meet Avis Wampler who runs Avie, a small paper goods company. Avis wrote to me last week to introduce her paper shop but I noticed that she contacted all the blogs so everyone wrote about her at once. I thought since she must have gotten hit with a lot of orders and traffic that I'd wait a week and blog about her today. Time to share her with the decor8 audience. :)

What I like about Avie's shop is that she creates quick and easy calling cards that you can hand out to those who ask you where they can find you or the things that you make online.

No name, no mailing address, no phone number, no problem... Just your website. Once there, people can find all the rest of that information anyway. If you don't have a business card this is your chance for only $15. Remember if you don't talk about (and share) what you do no one else will, right?

She also stocks cards that have more information on them like the Bright Type Calling Cards and the Birdie Cards. I like how crisp and clean they are.

There are also pretty 2009 calendars if you aren't currently looking for business cards and graphic notepads... Too cute. Avie we love your shop!

(images from avie)

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