| Business cards are a necessity for any business. They | | | | surfaces can absorb smells! Scented business cards |
| are especially important when your advertising budget | | | | for Scented Candle products! |
| is limited or you are in business for yourself. When I | | | | I cheered out loud and Nat, my boyfriend, jumped up |
| decided to promote gourmet candles, I knew I wanted | | | | startled. |
| business cards that would stand out. Since I am just | | | | How did I do it? |
| starting out, my budget is limited. You have to take | | | | Our candles are amazingly fragrant. They have natural |
| risks to get started (yes, you do have to spend money | | | | oils and ingredients that hold in the fragrances really |
| to make money), but I was not looking forward to | | | | well. So, I took some left over candle wax from a jar |
| spending upwards of $60.00 on business cards. | | | | candle I had burned down to the bottom of the jar |
| The person who got me hooked on the products | | | | (these things burn for like 100 hours and the jar still |
| (whom I try and thank every day!) suggested I try | | | | smells yummy after). I scraped out what was left and |
| Vista Print. They have some great deals and you can | | | | crushed it. I didn't want the cards to get greasy or |
| even get things for free. I purchased 250 custom | | | | colored from the wax (a waxy card is not exactly the |
| business cards. They had an image, my email and my | | | | best way to greet some one), so I had to come up |
| website address on the front (I prefer to do business | | | | with a way to get the scent on the card without |
| in person or by email) and information about the | | | | getting the candle on the card. |
| products on the back. They came with a free | | | | Tulle is a wondrous fabric. |
| silver-colored case. They cost me a little under $25.00 | | | | I took the crushed candle chunks, wrapped it in cling |
| and came with credit toward my next purchase. | | | | plastic wrap and then wrapped that bundle in tulle. With |
| When I got them I was slightly disappointed to realize | | | | a sewing needle, I poked tiny holes through the tulle |
| they were card-stock, non-laminated and not glossy. I | | | | and into the plastic wrap. I poked and poked until I could |
| must of stared at them for half an hour with a | | | | really smell the fragrance (apple cinnamon, by the |
| sideways frown on my face, trying to see what I could | | | | way). I then took a ziplock sandwich back, put about |
| do with them to make them be more than just pretty | | | | 30 of my cards (I want to try other scents later) and |
| card-stock. Then I had one of those moments where | | | | the fragrance tulle pouch and zipped it up. About 3 |
| youalmost expect a light bulb to appear over your | | | | days later, I had apple-cinnamon scented business |
| head and go ding! The down fall of the cards was | | | | cards! And the longer you leave it in the bag, the |
| actually perfect! | | | | stronger the scent on the cards. |
| Have you ever had one of those fancy stationary | | | | Give it a try and tell me how it works out for you! |
| sets that smelled like flowers? Unglossed card stock | | | | Remember, you must use un-glossed or laminated |
| paper is a porous paper surface. Porous paper | | | | card-stock business cards. |