Business card design tips and contest

[julesjones]

No, not from me. One of the other members of Broad Universe has a blog post this weekend about business card design for writers. It's a useful little post that's worth looking at.

It's also a nice example of viral marketing, because her day job is graphic design and she's offering a business card design to one person who posts a comment to her blog post. She's *also* offering a free download of her forthcoming book -- but not to the person who wins the business card design. She's asking people to link to her post; and if the winner of the design offer has done so, then someone who commented on *their* linking post gets the download. In other words, if I win the card design, someone who comments on this post gets the download. Now that is a cunning bit of marketing.

Comments

[doire]

At last, someone else who collects bookmarks but uses whatever come to hand to hold a place in a book.

I remember one piece of fan fiction, not solely because one character, despite being a teacher, used a dagger as a bookmark, but it is a small detail that sticks.

[julesjones]

The last item I used as a bookmark was in fact a book promo "postcard" printed at business card size, one for anghara's The Secrets of Jin Shei. It was on top of the little pile of bookmarks that lives on the bookcase, so it came readily to hand. I've been thinking that I'd like to get something like that done for one or two of my books, because it's the sort of thing that's easy for people to carry in a handbag or wallet to use as a bookmark.

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

I'll use anything as a bookmark. Papers, daggers, the cat's tail...though I admit that last one is strictly temporary.

[julesjones]

*Very* temporary with Captain Mal, I should have thought. :-)