It’s a new month, which means another fine working session for Two-Bit Operation. Justin flew into town on Monday, and we’re looking forward to attending a number of networking events here in Seattle, including a TIE business plan competition and Seattle MindCamp.
In preparation for these and future promotional activities, we designed a sleek, black business card that could be used to promote Menuism and also be useful for the recipient, with a nifty tip chart on the back. We chose Vistaprint to print our cards, and in typical Two-Bit Operation fashion we procrastinated until the last minute and had to opt for the rush shipping. 
To our surprise, Christmas came early this year, and our big card order arrived today! We rabidly tore apart the packaging and found the following:
It wasn’t bad, but it definitely wasn’t as sleek nor as black as we had hoped. What’s even odder was the backside color was a different shade than the front, though our original images were both jet black. (Vistaprint will be hearing from us…) Who knew that gray was the new black? Regardless, we’re satisfied that the cards are at lease usable – we hope people like and use the tip chart. Got any suggestions for the next batch of cards? What other interesting things have you seen on business cards?
-John
p.s. If you want to help spread the word about Menuism, or just need a useful tip chart in your wallet, let us know – we’ll send you some cards!
[...] You may remember our previous business card experience with VistaPrint.com (I won’t even give them a link!). Even after complaining and getting them to ship another order for free, there was no change in quality. The black wasn’t gray and the cutting was off. The oddest thing was that some of the cards were very black and others were very gray…the least they could do is be consistent. [...]
*applauds*
Hey there, I’m a server and would love to get some of your handy tip chart business cards to hand out to customers! Lemme know if the deal is still available, perhaps we can help each other out.
EP
i always make my own business card through adobe photoshop and ms word, they are satisfactorily made though`”.