Free Business Supplies for Starters
These supplies I found are very good for local or online businesses which are starting or are already established looking to promote their website a little more. Vista Prints has been offering free Business Cards for sometime now and many other webmasters including myself has gotten themselves these free supplies. Now, Vista Prints is offering more than just Business Cards. Yes now the free package includes, 250 Free Business Cards, 100 Free Post Cards, Free Sticky Notes, Free Pen, Free T-Shirt, Free Checques and more on their website.
I have ordered everything except for a cheque book because I already have one from my bank account. All you have to pay is Shipping.
This is one of the best opportunities you will get to promote your business offline at a fraction of price. They are also offering huge discounts once you finish your order on alot of their products.
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You have to choose one of the predesigned templates and there are 42 of them available. The back side of the card will contain Vista Prints link which you can easily remove by paying $2 for having a blank backside, or $5 to get your own text (which I did) because if it is my business card I dont want to have someone else’s link on it, and I don’t mind paying $5 for adding a little of my own text because it is an affordable price.
Free Rubber Stamp – You ever wanted to just stamp your address on the letter rather than keep writing it over and over? This is a free rubber stamp that comes with an extra black ink. This was one of the cool thing that I liked in their free promotion.
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They have their own pre-designed templates which you can use to write a description of your product and such and send these post cards out to your friends and families. Vista Print also offer mailing service which I didn’t bother with, but you can certainly go with it if you need to send the post cards to the people in your area. You can also use these as the little brochure I talked about in my Local Advertising post.
Free Custom Hat – I didn’t see this when I ordered my other supplies, but I found it when I was looking later, this looks very cool because there are tons of premade templates, and there are two colors available.
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This I found were cool but they only offer one set I believe. You can write sticky notes to people and it will have your Website’s name and url, so people will know about your website.
Free T-Shirt – One free T-shirt with a pregenerated logo from their company. It is something nice to have not too special but it is free.
25 Magnets for your Business – This $12.99 value is completely free for you. Now you can also give out free magnets with your contact information for people so they can put it on their refrigerator and will never have to look for your contact information again.
140 free Return Labels – As I mentioned above with the small rubber stamp. This is something similar, but much more prettier. You can get 140 colored labels with your name and return address, and won’t have to write your return address on the envelopes again. A great way to brand your business.
10 Free Notecards – Now this is what I like alot. Through this you can get 10 folded notecards, flat notecards, notecards with your own logo etc. These make a great gift for those people who you want to thank in your business. Especially when sending a business gift these cards are very helpful.
Car Door Magnet – Free Car Door Magnet for your Car door. Just put it on your car and advertise as you drive to places. This looks cool to me, another thing that I will be ordering in my second batch.
Free Wallet Check – You can customize your wallet check with 6 designs with Vista Print. The check book will contain 25 free checks.
Just an Advice for those who bothered reading this entire post, don’t order these individually… Order in bulk and save on shipping because ordering each individual will cost you $10 each, and ordering all together will cost somewhere around $15 and depending on how much more services you add.
I seriously recommend that you guys get these freebies because this is a great opportunity and not many things you will get in life which are free 
Enjoy
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Sweet man thanks for sharing!
my pleasure, I will be ordering my next batch soon because I had to find the other products. I ordered the business card, post card, sticky notes, shirt, and rubber stamp, but didn’t realize there was this much more. After I looked more I found more, and now I have to pay extra shipping to get the rest.
Thats why I put the advice note
Very nice – I am going to try some of these. Thanks for the tips
Syed,
I ordered just about every free product. Thanks so much for this resource!
I’ve already tried the 1st one 250 cards offer through somewhere else but will check out the others too.
I have been dissatisfied with VistaPrint . . . I think the quality of their designs and products is not very good, even if it is free!
I much prefer ooprint.com. They also have a free business cards offer, but the cards are much better looking. Plus they don’t spam you and give your credit card details out:
http://www.terencechang.com/2008/01/02/warning-vistaprint-free-business-card-will-rip-you-off/
Sorry to hear what happened to you. I am not a representative of Vista Print. I dont know why that did happened to you because it hasn’t occured to me and many others like me still recommend this free service.
I do know that they open a window at the end asking you to fill out a survey which ask whether you used a credit card or debit and you get $10 back which i ignored by closing it.
Beside Vista Print there are other on-line print shops. Such as http://www.dcp-print.com which let you choose a predesigned template and then go ahead with the rest of it until you’ll get the printed product of your desire.
i see that dcp-print have high shipping prices. I tried ordering 250 free business cards, shipping = 9.99, added 30 free business stickers, shipping went $21.99. I don’t think that offer is worth it.
I wish i could get this package, but they do not have the option of shipping to India
I agree! I’ve been looking for a similar site in India for a while now but to no avail!
yeah not many are available in india
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To all those who kindly responded my message:
1. we are working with FedEx so are products can be send to every country all over the world.
2. shipping prices are high – don’t forget that every thing else you get for free. to manufacture you orders people are working here! are you willing to work for free? we cover the production costs with the shipping cost and I think it’s fair.
ok lets not make this a self-promotional post for you. For the users sake, I checked out the link you posted in your comment and reviewed it. Vista prints is offering the exact same service … Actually more freebies for a cheaper price therefore I am recommending them and dcp-print.
I think its sad to see shameless self promotion specially in the comments. If youre as legitimate and recognized as Vista Print your marketing would be better than this.
I think that VistaPrint is a good company however I have heard some dissatisfactory results. The fact is that quite a few companies provide free business cards but obviously after you factor in shipping plus other features it all comes out to be the same thing.
Wow a free for all, they must really be looking for some business.I have oredered the hats, lets how they turn out to be.
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Vista print does a pretty good joob with stuff like this. The price is right too.