New business cards!

I know you're asking yourself, when is this lady ever going to share a recipe again, right? I do have some tricks up my sleeve for you, but in the meantime, I've finally redesigned my business card for the holiday season. As much as people liked this version of my business card, it was hard to make large quantities of them and I would spend whole days behind my table at shows, hunched over, writing my info out. The imagery may look a little familiar to some of you with elements from this piece. So here it is, bear with me. Cooking will return to this place soon, soon, dearies.

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good…

You know when you've been meaning to do something for a VERY long time and it just kind of lingers in the back of your mind ALL the time. Well, it's been that way for me with business cards. I think I always wanted them to be an absolute perfect representation of me and just couldn't figure out how to do that (imagine that?!?). Anyway, with the upcoming Artisan Market (this Sunday, June 7), I knew that I simply HAD to have a business card. So, at the eleventh hour, as always, I uploaded my design to Overnight Prints. This was last Thursday at 3 p.m. By 9 a.m. the next morning, I had received a confirmation email that my cards had shipped — they don't call themselves Overnight Prints for nothing. It was that easy. The box was waiting for me when I arrived home last night and… drumroll, please… here they are:

I've got 1,000 of these babies and I'm pretty darn pleased. I am now also in love with Overnight Prints. The title of this post is a quote from a post by Martha Retallick over at the Freelance Switch blog that hit home for me and I think you might enjoy it, too, called Just Get Going: The Single Most Effective Marketing Trick.