As many website and other business owners know, VistaPrint offers free business cards, where you pay only the shipping cost of under $7. However, these cards come with the VistaPrint logo on the back, and you only get the option to choose from 30 designs. To upgrade to 250 “premium” business cards costs $23.99 and creating your own design costs an additional $6.99.

With a little bit of planning ahead, however, you can get your business cards for $5.99 plus shipping for 250 cards. Before ordering your cards, register for a VistaPrint account. Make sure you check the box asking if it’s ok to e-mail you special offers. Within a day, you should receive some e-mails giving you “special offers” on your first purchase. They’ll offer you premium business cards for $5.99. 

When I accepted the offer, I decided to see what they would charge me for uploading my own design: whether it would be $6.99 or if they would increase the price of the cards back to $23.99. When I tried though, they charged me nothing!

I paid $5.99 for the cards and around $7 for their slowest shipping. My total came to $15 for 250 customized, good quality business cards. I don’t know whether if you wait longer they send you the ”free premium business cards” offers I’m getting daily now. You may want to try if you’re not in a rush to get your cards.

Unless you also plan on spending large amounts of money with VistaPrint and ordering regularly, I would register with a different e-mail account than your normal one, as you get BOMBARDED by e-mails from them. There have been days when I’ve received three e-mails from them with “special offers”. While it’s useful if you’re going to be printing lots of marketing materials, it’s pretty annoying when you just don’t care.

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