You’re throwing a major bash for your new graduate. You’re so thrilled that your child finished school that you’d like to invite the whole world. However, you are limiting yourself to people you actually know. As you start to look at all the great graduation invitations ideas, it occurs to you that these customizable invitations are much cheaper than the graduation announcements being sold by the school. On top of that, everyone you would send announcements to is being invited to the celebration anyway. Why not create invitations that do dual duty and use the money you would have spent on those costly announcements to hire your child’s favorite local band to provide live music at the party instead?

Simply add a few additional words to the invitations to have them handle both jobs. For example, an invitation that reads, Please join us as we celebrate John Doe’s graduation, can be altered to say, We are delighted to announce that John Doe is graduating on Monday, June, 2^nd at 2 p.m. Please join us as we celebrate his achievement with a party on…

If you decide you would rather send separate graduation announcements, consider using VistaPrint to make custom postcards that announce the graduation. You’ll still be paying much less than you would for official school announcements and you’ll save on postage.

As you pack the kids into the car, you begin the checklist. “Where’s Bobby? Do you have your coats? Amy, did Grandma give you that bracelet to keep or were you supposed to leave it behind?” You finally pull out of the driveway, waving madly at the front window of the house, where Grandma is watching. You are halfway home when you realize you left something off the checklist. “Who thanked Grandma for their gifts? Bobby? Amy? John? No one?” When you get home, the first thing you do is make a call so that the kids can thank Grandma one after another for those gifts. As you hang up the phone, you remember writing thank you cards for the gifts you received when you were a child.

Why not order thank you notes for all your kids so that the next time they get gifts, they’ll be able to send their relatives a tangible expression of thanks instead of making a quick phone call? The people receiving the notes will appreciate getting them and may just brag to all their friends about their young relatives’ amazing manners! To make sure your children are as pleased with your idea as you are, you should:

• 1. Make sure you choose designs your children will like. Monkeys and princesses are much more appealing than a stylish thin stripe.
• 2. Look for designs that make writing notes as simple as filling in the blanks for your younger children. This way, they won’t be overwhelmed by a scary blank space.

You’re ready to order your business cards online using Vistaprint’s templates. However, as you start the process, you realise that you don’t have a business logo. Now, you’re going to have to go out and pay a designer to create a logo before you can make your cards. Even if you can find someone to do a rush job, you’re really going to be delaying the arrival of the new business cards and you needed them as soon as possible because of an upcoming business function.

Before you start your online search for a logo design service, take another look at VistaPrint’s options for business cards. You can actually design your own logo right on the site by following just a few simple steps.

Click on the logo design link and then decide whether you’d like your logo to be just letters or letters and an image. If you want to use an image, look through the available designs and choose one that reflects your company. Select the text font and color and choose any additional options you’d like for your logo. Once you’re satisfied with the results, you can use the new logo to create your custom business cards.

You have a new business and you want to let everyone know. While you have signed up for your very first telephone book ad, you just missed the new book, so it will be several months until people can find you there. You have seen other options, like advertising on local cable announcement channels, but you just aren’t sure if they are going to get results. What about designing a business postcard?

Business postcards are a great way to announce a new business quickly to a large group of people. You can design them to look the way you want them to look and can target specific people or businesses, which makes them a very cost effective option.

Of course, to mail the cards out, you’ll need to get the mailing addresses for your potential customers. If you are short on time, you can buy a mailing address list for your location from companies that specialize in collecting mailing addresses. You may still want to go through the list to weed out addresses that you know are wrong for your business, but you will still save considerable time.

If you have plenty of time on your hands and are tight on cash, you can create your own mailing list. Online phone directories with search functions make it much easier than it used to be to look up certain types of businesses or to find a group of addresses in one area.