It is wedding season and with a bunch of my friends getting married this year I hear a lot of great proposal stories.  This one tops all of them.

The folks over at Bizcard reached out to me and asked if they can give all our stores free business cards.  I said “Yes! Of course”.  You should always carry some business cards around.

Biz Card is offering each Flying Cart store one free print marketing kit to help you promote your store.  The kit includes:

* 250 business cards to help network and share your web store information
* 50 Thank You Notes to show appreciaition to your customers
* and 22 Magnets to remind them of your business.

You will need to pay the shipping fee.  If you want the deal email them at FlyingCart@bizcard.com

This is a super funny video I just saw the other day about Business Cards:

A lot of our stores are using Slide to display product slideshows on their homepage.  Check out FotoViewr.com - they allow you to create 3D interactive photo galleries.  I got a full demo of the product a few months ago and was impressed.

The best businesses in the world were started by 2 or more people.  Having a good business partner can go a looooong way.  Do you have a business partner?

Teamwork

I laughed really hard when I saw this.  Also true.

Margo “the creative one” Baxter made some awesome business cards for the team.   I love seeing peoples reaction when I hand them my business card.

Here is what my business card looks like.

Front

Back

We used Blockbuster Print to print our cards - good printing service.

I live in Austin and Rishi lives in Chicago. We only see each other in person about 3 times per year. This week Rishi came to Austin for our Texas meetup tour and after spending some time together it came to our attention that we have very similar tastes in fashion.  Here we are both wearing our favorite “work-at-home” outfits. It’s good when the two founders of a company are on the same page, right?

Facebook is a great place to gain more awareness about your brand.  You can create a Fan Page for your product or company and have facebook users become fans of it.  Everytime a new fan joins your fan club all their friends are alerted giving more exposure to your product.

Nutella has over 2.7 MILLION fans on facebook.  That is a lot of people that said they love Nutella (disclosure: Nutella is soooo good and I have it with my toast every morning).  Do you think Nutella saw a rise in business?  I think so.  Even getting 25-50 Facebook fans is a HUGE acheivement in mind.

Here is how you can create your Facebook Fan Page:

1. Go here http://www.facebook.com/advertising/?pages

2. Click on “Create A Page”

3. Pick a category.  For our customers I would suggest the “Brand or Product” category.

4. Pick a specific category in the drop down

5. Enter in the name of your product or online store (For example in our case we put Flying Cart, if you sell resistance bands I would put in “Resistance Bands” this way you can attract a wider audience of people into fitness).

6. Click on “Create Page”

7. Login to Facebook.  (You don’t have an account?  OMG … ARE YOU SERIOUS? just kidding… you can create one easily for free)

8. Upload pictures of your products

9. Add videos of your products and you!

10. Invite all your facebook buddies to your fan club

Also note that Facebook Fan Pages are indexed by Google so its another great SEO trick.

Check out the Flying Cart fan page. Become a fan of us too!

Feel free to invite me to your fan page, I’d love to join.