Card Holders

For Enclosure, Calling, and/or Business cards

In our August 14 article, we suggested the practice of holding several types of cards, calling cards (or business cards), for different situations or usage. Once all your cards are printed, we suggest card cases to carry them on you. Often, folks would just put their calling or business cards in their purses, or pocket books, or wallets. In fact several models of those, come with special pockets for cards. The flip side is that your cards may be bay roughed up (folded corners, wrinkled), or hard to retrieve especially if said purses, pocket books, or wallets are very packed. The alternative of using individual card cases is a better guarantee that your cards will be protected and easier to retrieve.

We have searched for card cases suppliers over the internet. There are many. Some results are listed below. Types of cases offered vary from metal (choices of precious metal available), to leather, vinyl and cloth. Many companies even offer services to personalize your card cases for that extra stylish touch.

Card Cases samples (metal & leather)

• Google Search. Click -> Suppliers of Card Cases
• Yahoo Search. Click -> Suppliers of Card Cases
• MSN Search. Click -> Suppliers of Card Cases

Disclaimer: The search results above are only for your information about types of cards cases available on the market. We are not affiliated to any of the companies listed in these search results. We cannot guarantee availability, and/or quality of their products and/or services. If you plan on purchasing card cases (or any other items) from the suppliers listed above, we recommend that you get information about the company before placing any order.

And now start exchanging your cards happily.

Enclosure cards, calling cards Vs business cards

Before the term “calling card” became so much associated with telephones, it was widely associated with another type of cards, the visiting cards. The practice of sharing calling card (or visiting cards) is several centuries old. Nowadays the “calling card” refers to several things (as Wikipedia tells us) aside from the ever so popular telephone cards.

Before they retired from work, my parents always carried 2 types of cards on their persons: their business cards with their job title and business contacts, and their personal calling card with their private contacts. Each type of card was of course to be shared in different circumstances, the first one being obviously exclusively for business matters. This practice of separating business from every thing else (at least card wise) has unfortunately become less common with newer generations. Nowadays, when I meet friends or relatives and want to share contacts, they would usually give me their business cards then write their home/private contacts on it (since of course one cannot always call one’s workplace to chat freely about non-work things). And writing that private information can become quite a challenging affair if there is nothing to write with handily around. All my purses (no matter their sizes) are virtually black holes that swallow every thing up, and in which it’s impossible to find anything much less a pen or pencil to write with. And sometimes one cannot find a charitable soul around to lend you the much needed pen or pencil. One has to ask: how truly useful is a card if you still have to scribble stuff on it?

Thank God! Now with computers, specialized paper, and loads of do-it-yourself software, one can create any type of cards s/he wants from business cards, to visiting cards, to gift enclosure cards, children calling cards, or more. And if you don’t want to print your cards yourself, there are plenty of card design and printing services that will do that for you for quite a reasonable price.

And finally, once you have the appropriate cards to hand out at the appropriate occasions, make sure to organize them. Preventing your purse or bag to become a “black hole” could be a start. Plus of course there are plenty of personal organizer products to be found on the market for that purpose. But that’s another blog article all together.