Question about Business Cards

[TheWorks]

Is it good idea to put your home phone number on it?

Like this:

718-555-1010 (home)
212-555-1100 (cell)


^^^ Does that look right?


And how about putting my home address on the business card? does it matter?

I dont have an office. I have small business and i'm going through the first steps.

[businesgoonline]

sure, if you want your prospect to contact you via phone, otherwise email address would be sufficient.

About home address, do you really want people to visit you at your home? Are you selling something that people have to collect it from you? Are you running a showroom? It is all depends on your business needs, if you do not require this, i suggest you not to include home address in the BC, just in case....

Simon

[pacificfame]

Go get a toll free number at kall8 for like $2 a month. Kall8 800 Numbers & Toll Free Number Services

The number will be directed to the number you choose. This way when you are getting a business call, on your cell phone, you will know by the toll free number appearing on the caller id.

Also, I would not recommend putting your home address on your business card. I know some who have done this, but you can usually tell the difference between a residential address and a commercial address. Plus, do you really want people to have your home address?

[TheWorks]

sure, if you want your prospect to contact you via phone, otherwise email address would be sufficient.

About home address, do you really want people to visit you at your home? Are you selling something that people have to collect it from you? Are you running a showroom? It is all depends on your business needs, if you do not require this, i suggest you not to include home address in the BC, just in case....

Simon

Go get a toll free number at kall8 for like $2 a month. Kall8 800 Numbers & Toll Free Number Services

The number will be directed to the number you choose. This way when you are getting a business call, on your cell phone, you will know by the toll free number appearing on the caller id.

Also, I would not recommend putting your home address on your business card. I know some who have done this, but you can usually tell the difference between a residential address and a commercial address. Plus, do you really want people to have your home address?

I dont have an office/business location yet. And i'm not expecting visits from the people I give my card to.

I see it as a small/quick resume.

[businesgoonline]

why dont you consider to setup a website and putting up the url of the site in the BC. I think it would be better representing your business.

Simon

[k-rod]

sounds good as long as you want them to call both phones

[JBSurfs]

Better yet, get a google number. It's free if you can get an invite, then you can set it to any number you want it to forward to. Then if you have something where people call all day, you can set the hours for it to go to voice mail or switch to another phone if needed.

[leonyu]

I personally have 2 sets of name cards, one set with home phone# and the other without.

[fanguide]

On my business cards, which is printed by my wife. Has my address
cell and home phone # Email and website info.

[LingerieLady]

If i had a business run from home, i'd honestly only put my cell phone number on the card. That would then be my business number, and i can mute it if it's necessary.. haha.
I wouldn't want random people calling me constantly at home, while i am having quality time with my man..

Business number and email should be sufficient.

Luckily I have a retail location. I actually only have my store number and store address on my card. This is where customers can call me or leave a message.
If i'm not there, and it's urgent, my employees will give them my cell number, or let me know, and i'll call them right away from my cell.

My suppliers, security company, shippers and banks, i believe, are some of the few people who got my home number from the start..

This works for me.. I don't need the whole city knowing where i live and where they can reach me 24/7.

[DerekS]

I recommend just putting one phone number on the card. It will keep it simple and make sure that your leads/messages are consolidated into one voice mailbox.

You can also get an efax number, which will forward to an email address. I use MyFax, which runs about $12/quarter. You really can't argue with that price!

[SmoothEntrepreneur]

I work out of home too, and I have my cell phone and home address on the card, but my contacts don't know the address is residential or commercial. The address is more for sending mail, not for visits. As long as you have an address, phone number and email address you will be fine. But be careful about leaving any of those three out because it could make you look less legitimate.

[LingerieLady]

As long as you have an address, phone number and email address you will be fine. But be careful about leaving any of those three out because it could make you look less legitimate.

SmoothEntrepeneur makes a good point!
Is there room in your budget to maybe get a P.O. box?

[SmoothEntrepreneur]

Also, when some entrepreneurs first start out they are worried about admitting to clients and networks that they work out of home, when in reality many people do it. I know you should put on a little 'show' and act bigger then you are, but would it be that bad to put your home address? You can work out of home, but if you need to meet someone set up a lunch meeting or something.

[ACMAir]

That depends. Is most of your business online or not? Because if it is, having an address would be pointless. The main reasoning behind the address would be for people to drive to you and find you. If you dont want them to, don't put it. Like someone said, you can arrange lunch meetings or something like that.

Best of Luck!