Deena, I definitely upgraded to the premium cards. I like the designs better. Should I upgrade to the heavier paper stock as well? I don't think I need to go through the hassle of designing a custom image, but I'm curious to find out how you've determined if the font is too small.

Sox, thanks! I'm going to check them out now.

bonny,that's good to hear. I'll ask you the same question as I asked Deena--upgrade to the heavier stock or no?

edit: Please, everyone, be safe during Snowpocalypse 2011 v.2 (or is it 3 now?).

I like the heavier paper. I only determined the font was too small after I ordered the first batch and it was much too small. I think I wouldn't go smaller than 10pt, and would prefer 12, on anything and it should be okay.

For a small fee, Vistaprint will send you a pdf proof of your design before you order. That has been really helpful to me to see how it finished product will work.

I like the heavier card stock too...especially for your profession. But, honestly, I didn't upgrade on my last two orders and the cards I have are not flimsy. I think the choice is between 'normal' and 'luxurious.'

ETA: The one thing I won't do again is take the glossy finish. It's very nice, but I need to be able to write stuff on my cards and the glossy is so thick, a ballpoint won't even work on it.

Thanks! I'm actually ordering two batches--one to give to clients with my personal contact info, and the second to give to networking/job search/interview types that has an additional phrase printed on it that hits on my areas of expertise (Strategic-Thinking Professional with Policy, Consulting, Sales, and Operations Expertise). I think I'll spring for the heavier stock on the search cards, and keep the normal on the personal ones.

I don't like the look of glossy cards, and I hate when I can't write on cards, so that's definitely not an option.

Dear Support Personnel,

I'm sure I'm annoying you with what you probably consider my obvious and trivial questions. I don't care. I will keep emailing you whenever I have the slightest uncertainty about what to do, because our software is like unto a pile of dogshit in both its usefulness and the lack of desire I have to deal with it, and I know from sad experience that if I, in the course of doing what seems logical to fix the problem, confuse it at all, it will crash and I will be unable to work for at least four hours. I will then have to explain the resulting delay to my boss, keeping in mind that "problems with the software is never an acceptable excuse for delay". Thus my youthful joy in experimenting to figure things out for myself has crumbled into exhausted cynicism and a focus on getting you to do this crap for me.

Cheers, Me.

I buy stock blank cards and use the Avery templates to create my own. No artistic talent, but I can customize those template. Can futz with it until it is what I like. Not sure cheaper than services, but very cheap and I like results.

Oh, Zen, I'm so sorry. I hate when software is touchy.

Typo, I've used those in the past, and I can never get it to look the way I want. The savings in time and effort is worth spending a little extra money, for me.

So, am I forgetting anything? Full name, address, cell, LinkedIn profile address, and professional twitter handle.

email addy?

Do you not want a direct email address?

Oh, yeah. It's on there. I neglected to type it out here.

t is dumb

I love you all. Just thought you should know.