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The most important decision when designing your business card will be whether to add your photo. While some experts say definitely no, others say definitely yes. Only you can make the right decision for your business cards. Here are some considerations to think about as you’re deciding how to make the most of business card printing techniques that includes a photo.

How will you use your business cards?

Will your cards be distributed on their own, sitting out on a counter or desk somewhere? When will you hand them out? And what kind of person will receive your business cards?

If you try to get new customers by pinning your business cards on bulletin boards, a photo will help people feel like they know you already and will make you seem more trustworthy. If you hand out business cards to customers that come into your store and know what you look like, then you obviously don’t need a photo. You can use the space that would have been used for a photo to give additional contact information or to list business hours.

The purpose of your business cards pertaining to who you give them to most often will help decide whether to include a photo. If you only hand them out to prospects, including a photo can be a smart way to help them remember you.

Here are some pros and cons to consider when deciding whether to put your photo on your business card.

Photo Pros

Photos can build trust in industries that require it like counseling or real estate. Seeing a friendly face on a business card can remind the recipient about your professionalism and the fact that you aren’t afraid to put your face on your business card. You aren’t hiding anything with a photo on your business card!

Photos can also be helpful if you set up meetings over the phone or email before meeting a client in person. This helps the person find you in a restaurant or wherever you’re meeting. Photos also help people avoid awkward introductions if you have a unisex name like “Kris” or “Alex.”

Photos don’t have to be of your pretty face – you can use a photo of your product or service or a small before-and-after illustration. Photos add color and interest to an otherwise boring business card.

Photo Cons

On the other hand, a photo can date you – your hairstyle or clothing could show that you haven’t printed new business cards for years! The impression given of an old, dated business card is that you don’t give out many business cards so it might make people not want to work with you if you still have business cards from five years ago.

People are judgmental and giving them a photo of yourself before you meet gives them time to come up with preconceived notions about you. This is human nature, but it’s a risk you need to be willing to take if you put your photo on your business card.

Most business cards with photos on them have professional-looking headshots that can be expensive. Take into account how much it will cost to have a professional headshot taken as well as the additional cost of printing a photo on your business cards.

The author is affiliated with a company that offers business card printing

Salzburg is one of Europe’s most popular cities. Although relatively small, (population around 150,000) it has an abundance of sight-seeing attractions and provides tourists with an inspirational combination of mountain views and historic monuments.

The city of Salzburg is located in the Salzburg region of Austria close to the border with Bavaria, (Germany). Its name means “Salt Castle” referring to the deposits of salt in the area that made the city wealthy as a centre of the medieval salt trade and its beautiful white castle.

Salzburg is an incredibly beautiful city that has many outstanding examples of both Romanesque and Baroque architecture. Everywhere you look you will see reminders that this city was birthplace of Mozart. His memory is preserved and celebrated in several museums and through regular musical events that take place in the city.

The following, top ten Salzburg travel tips are for things to see and do within the city itself. All of them can be easily reached without requiring any transport

1. Above all else, do not miss visiting the Salzburg Castle

Dominating the city, this magnificent, white, fairy-tale, castle is Europe’s best preserved and largest intact medieval fortress. It is the kind of place you want to look at from every possible angle. Walking in the narrow streets of the old town, you turn each corner hoping to be provided with yet another view of the majestic building sitting at the top of the overlooking Monchsberg rock. When you are walking the hills opposite the Monchsberg, you are treated to views of the castle across the valley (see tip 10 below). When you are walking around the Monchsberg itself you constantly look up at the mighty fortress walls, towering above you. From here and from the castle ramparts you are provided with spectacular views over the city and the surrounding countryside below. Inside the castle, the superbly organised tours reveal many fascinating features and historical facts from its origins in 1077 right through to the twentieth century wars.

2. The Salzburg Dom – the city’s cathedral

The cathedral is another great place to soak up the history of Salzburg. It was opened in 1628 on the site of earlier cathedrals, the earliest of which was built in 767.

3. St Peters Abbey

This Benedictine monastery is the oldest active monastery in Austria, dating back to 696 AD. It is located in oldest quarter of Salzburg and will provide many fascinating insights into the history of the city.

4. Getreidegasse – Salzburg’s medieval shopping precinct

Salzburg’s most fashionable shops can be found in Getreidegasse, a beautiful, medieval alley, almost a mile long, running the length of the old town. Even if some of the shops are overpriced, just strolling along the street is an experience not to be missed.

5. Mozartplatz – Mozart Square

This is the heart of the city and is dominated by a statue of the great composer. The statue is considered to bear only a poor resemblance to Mozart and reveals a glaring historical error inasmuch as it portrays him holding a pencil; pencils were not invented until at least twenty years after the time of Mozart’s death in 1791.

6. Mozart Birthplace

The house where Mozart was born in 1756 has been converted into a not-to-be-missed museum.

7. Mozart’s Residence

Not to be confused with the composers’ birthplace, this wonderful museum is to be found in the new town and is the house where the Mozart family lived between 1773 and 1780.

8. Residenzplatz and Residenz

The Residenzplatz is Salzburg’s largest square. It houses the fifty foot high, Residenzplatz Fountain, probably the most beautiful baroque fountain that exists outside of Italy. The Residenz itself was the residence of Salzburg’s Prince-Archbishops and is open all day for yet another not-to-be-missed place to visit.

9. Mirabell Gardens

The Mirabell Gardens is the place where the children in the Sound of Music danced around the statue of Pegasus singing “Do Re Mi”. The gardens belong to the Mirabell Palace that was built by an Archbishop in 1606 as a residence for his mistress and children! Today it is the office of the Mayor of Salzburg but parts of it are open to tourists.

10. Kauzinerberg

This beautiful hill reaches a height of 2087 feet but there is no need to walk all the way to the top in order to enjoy stunning views of Salzburg in the valley below. The beginning of any walk will take you past the six Stations of the Cross that were built in the early 18th century. The Capuchin monastery which is also on the lower slopes is most definitely worth visiting.

The author is a travel article writer and co-owner of the best-travel-tip website, which aims to provide travel tips and information about possible holiday vacation destinations worldwide

The first major step in any business is getting started. Forming a new business is an exciting, dynamic and very satisfying endeavor in the beginning. There is a lot of energy at this stage because of the numerous factors that go into your new business venture. Once that part is done, however, there is another process that may not seem as exciting but is just as important. The next step is to measure the success of your new business. Your business idea may be stellar, and your research can be right on the money, but if you don’t take the time to measure your results once you have been in business for a while then you could be doomed to fail.

Essentially, by measuring your success you are able to see if you are doing the right things and implementing your business plan effectively. You need to measure the business processes that you started out with in the beginning to determine if they are still working. But how do you know what to measure and how to measure it?

The very first thing you have to do is define your business by what it does and what you as a business owner wants to achieve. That way you will know if you hit the goal or not. Setting up definable goals will make measuring a whole lot easier. For example, if your company is a restaurant and your goal is defined to “provide a great dining experience for people,” then that is hardly a measurable item. Now, if you add to that statement, “provide a great dining experience for people by making an American breakfast and lunch menu second to none in the region.” That has some substance to it. Now there can be appropriate goals and plans made around that. All choices related to food, staffing, advertising, and location can be made very clear. Once it comes time to measure what’s working it will be clear if there are areas that need more attention.

Once you’ve defined the goals for your company and have been working towards them for a while, then you can start measuring. One of the major things a business needs to measure is its profit. There needs to be a good system in place to track all the income and expenses that are incurred throughout a specific period of time. Business owners who are loose with their numbers might not be getting all the profit they could. You need to have an organized record-keeping system to make sure things are staying on track. Just because you took in $10,000 in new sales in one month doesn’t mean you get to keep it all! Make sure that you have a very detailed way of tracking expenses and income on all levels. This will allow you to see if your money is doing the most it could.

So if you have a great business and you want to keep it that way, make sure to measure your success as you grow. Believe me, you won’t regret it!

Russ Dalbey founded the Dalbey Education Institute in 1995 to provide customers with the highest quality of wealth-building products, services and networking resources for buyers and sellers of real estate and all other cash flows.

No doubt about it, it’s yet another of serial success story Zalman Silber’s many attractions around the world, this time in Melbourne, Australia. Protruding a full three metres straight out of the building at a height of over three hundred metres above street level, it’s The Edge by New York entrepreneur Zalman Silber, a fully transparent rectangular structure where all sides offer a panoramic view – including the floor! It’s an exhilaratingly mesmerizing, disorienting experience that is wholesome fun for the whole family, as memorable as it is unique.

It is a glass enclosure suspended high above the ground – with you in it! Available only through 21st Century building technology and available nowhere else but at the Skydeck 88 on top of Melbourne’s Eureka Tower, it’s so popular that tickets can only be purchased on the day of the visit itself (while groups of fifteen or more and those with special needs may make arrangements beforehand). The bold vision of Katsalidis Architects, the Eureka Tower is the pride of the city’s Southbank precinct, a skyscraper that took four years to build and referring to a pivotal point in Aussie history, a miners’ revolt that marked the country’s coming of age from scorned penal colony to respected modern democracy. (The word “eureka” itself, of course, refers to Archimedes famous exclamation – ancient Greek for “I’ve found it!” – upon finally understanding the mathematics behind displacing solid bodies in water.) And at the top of it all, The Edge, an opaque box cantilevered ninety degrees from the Skydeck 88 observation level. Initially frosted, the glass will suddenly turn clear, exposing stunning vistas from the highest point in all Melbourne and creating the sense of being magically suspended in mid-air!

Full 360-degree views are available from the observation deck itself, with any number of culinary amenities on offer in a light relaxing atmosphere that belies the excitement of it all. Easily accessible by children, the elderly, and any who are wheelchair-bound, different classes of tickets may be purchased for one-time visits or unlimited entries. It’s the one thing to do in Melbourne if nothing else – Zalman Silber’s The Edge!

Rubber Stamps have an interesting history for those who don’t know that they might have been inspired by dentures. Yes, it’s true: dental dentures! But now, some background, because Charles Goodyear had to first discover the secret to vulcanization. This is the process of “curing” rubber so it can be molded as needed. Before Mr. Goodyear’s discovery, rubber — in its natural state — was almost impossible to work with.It is sticky and does not stay set in a particular shape. But with vulcanization, rubber, once cooled, would stay in the shape in which it had been set.

Yet unfortunately, poor Mr. Goodyear did not benefit financially from his invention, though he was publicly recognized by the Emperor of France, Napoleon himself, and prestigiously decorated with many honors. His invention, however, went on to find many applications that were to change the world. One of these was dentures. Rubber was determined to be a great substitute material for the dentures of the day, which were often made of metal or even wood.Dentists had long been producing their own dentures, and one of these had a curious nephew who realized the potential of rubber and eventually wound up manufacturing rubber stamps for the U.S. Postal Service. This nephew was a Mr. James Woodruff, is often credited with the invention of the quality rubber stamp we know today. But there are, actually, several accounts of how rubber stamps came to be, depending on exactly how a rubber stamp is defined, with one even stretching all the way back to the ancient Mayans! This version just presented is among the most widely accepted accounts for the marking devices which we today would most immediately recognize as being a rubber stamp.

Another very popular and widely acknowledged version of the invention the rubber stamp concerns a Mr. L.F. Witherell, who even composed a document titled “How I Came to Discover the Rubber Stamp,” in which he claimed to have been inspired during work as a foreman at a wooden pump manufacturing facility. According to Mr. Witherell, there was a problem one day with the paint which was used to mark the pumps. The paint would run and obscure necessary information. Mr. Witherell came upon the idea of creating stencils out of some thin sheets of rubber packing laying around. But as he was making his stencil, he decided to simply create thick letters out of the rubber, then glue them to a backing of wood, by which repeated impressions of the necessary marks could be made.

The one account held least likely concerns a Mr. Henry C. Leland, who was actually championed, ironically, during his time by none other than the “Stamp Trade News,” published by a manufacturer of rubber stamps.But whatever its origins, there is no doubt that the rubber stamp itself has left quite an impression on our lives.

As Audiovox Cell Phones No Contracts pulls a few rabbits out of the hat in the No Contract Cell Phones industry, Nokia Cell Phones has pulled out a nice marketing strategy to sweeten their already solid deals on smart phones. They have decided that for 10 of their cell phones they’re going to give away totally free navigation software with it. This navigation software is built into the phone and works without wireless net, thus if no web is available navigating a new city or neighborhood is still as straightforward as ever.

The idea behind it is to give the customers a top-notch product which has become virtually a requirement in this day and age and so boost the mobile sales. That’s not to say Nokia Cell Phones is suffering in the market, they are not, but why not give the company a lift if it is possible. And the navigation program which they’re offering is not just one that works without wireless web but it is also one that features turn by turn directions, travel guides and even voice prompts.

The move is alleged to hurt outside firms that make navigation software for phones like iPhone and sell it for more than free. Nonetheless if Nokia Cell Phones can afford to make such a move there is not any reason not to. In fact , it is their privilege. And as consumers we have got to like that the contest has gotten so tight that now things we may have payed for anyway are being given to us for nothing. But it is’s equally nice that even if we aren’t able to buy such products we are still getting them.

The smartphone market has really amped up in the year with many companies understanding what is needed to achieve success in this new landscape and breaking the competition totally open. There’s now no clear cut leader in the bizz rather some corporations all getting more inventive and giving the customer an amplitude to make a choice from. And again, Nokia Cell Phones as well as many other companies revving up the competition has only made a rather more enjoyable market for patrons. Better products, cheaper products, more offers, and there seems no end apparent. This writer is just waiting for a free phone and service plan, and then he’ll be ecstatic. Okay, so I am being a bit precocious, but the reader does understand the point that’s being made, right? It’s a patrons market and there is not any reason to not be happy about it.

Five of the top ways you can expand your business :

One. Get a web site : the internet will permit your company to reach a large market, including the international market. Not only is the exposure grand but your website can reach these possible customers 24hrs per day, all days of the week, every week. From large to small, getting online creates a level playing field between you and your competitors. A key element in a successful online presence is to create a good site. A great or even good internet site can play a particularly significant role in your web presence and determine if a shopper will feel ok with your business.

Two. Accept Credit Cards: if you’re not yet accepting mastercard, visa, discover and other cards in your business, you must start. These days most shoppers want to pay with credit cards and if your business is e-commerce you’ll have a few options to accepting cards. To start you’ll need to open a card proccessing sellers account. This can permit your business to accept credit cards such as visa, mastercard, discover and american express as a payment option.

Three. Partner Up With Others : Finding other companies with goods and services that compliment yours is a way to grow your enterprise. After finding the right business types you will need to contact them in order to figure out a jointly advantageous arrangement. This way you can both get together. This can create a winning situation for both your business and theirs.

Four. Advertise : don’t over-do-it but do advertise. This is kind of obligatory, especialy if you’d like to increase your business. The trick is to look for cheap paths to publicize your business products. Also consistency is the key to a good advertising campaign. Keep in mind that potential customers might not reply to the 1st ad they come by, but they might reply the third time they see that exact ad.

Also someone may just send a referal to your ad by referring someone else to it, so you should have your ad be there when it is being looked up by that person referred to it.

Five. Trade Events : Attend the trade shows and events that are related to your business for your business. Trade shows and events can be excellent resources. They can company executived a way to research business goods and services in a place that is targeted on their exact market segment.

Siemens Cell Phones No Contract gradually promoted its No Contract Cell Phones for the benefit of its users on the computer. The PC chip maker, Intel, is now trying to stake its claim in the 3G Cell Phones / smart phone industry. They are claimed to be making an open source O. S for mobile devices known as Moblin, expecting to branch out of its regular business confines of microprocessors. It is just one of many computer and net based firms that’s now trying to get in on the smart phone revolution.

Moblin, which stands for Mobile Linux, offers panel-based navigation to read running programs, widget based social networking applications as well as a Firefox browser. Intel will allow programmers and developers write programs that may work on multiple platforms as well as different types of computers.

The idea behind the Intel company move is to break into the cellular industry because as 3G Cell Phones become more the standard for accessing the web it becomes important that these once top of the line PC and software makers aren’t left in the dust of more recent inventive corporations. This marks a stretch in the sector in which software makers must make the jump, whether they’re keen on it or not, into the smart phone industry. Unavoidably here’s where the computing industry is heading. Fully, no. Computers and desktops are as preferred and as necessary as ever but to think a company can sit back and watch others take command of the growing 3G cell phone / Smartphones industry is just ludicrous.

This industry is a money maker and a place where corporations can show off leading edge creativeness and become quite experimental. But those who don’t get on board soon I fear will never get another chance to take part. It’s good to see these corporations eventually testing the waters, and it’s great for us consumers, more competition between the corporations and likely better products, too.

Yes, it is the innovativeness and the competition between firms that should make customers happiest. When more corporations like Apple, Microsoft, Google and Intel get into the mix the more ideas are shared and the better products are produced. The technological geniuses that are now competing for our business, and the only real way to get that business it make the most appropriate goods available. So let the invention take over while we simply select which we like best. I guarantee by the end of this year we will see things on smart phones that we never thought attainable. Remember that. Don’t say I didn’t tell you so.

As Alltel Cell Phones No Contract made their way into the No Contract Cell Phones zone, Luxury phone maker Vertu, a company owned by Nokia Cell Phones, has come out with a new carbon fiber phone called the Ascent Ti Carbon Fiber. This device is hand made from Carbon Fiber which is known in the aerospace community as a material wonderful due to its strength to weight ratio.

Luxury phones are an interesting niche cell phone market. While the niche is rather little, the market continues to grow, a definite sign that those in the niche are pleased with the results that they have seen. These products include, gold plated phones ( The Nokia 6700 Gold Edition ), jewel encrusted cell phones, platinum phones and a spread of other oddity combinations. But let’s keep our target the Ascent Ti Carbon Fiber as it is a particularly fascinating Nokia cell phone, bringing more to the table than merely a carbon fiber casing.

The Ascent Ti Carbon Fiber by Nokia Cell Phones division Vertu, is a phone, as we have established, with a carbon body. The fibers and resin of this body are processed to unsure the flat and curved surfaces achieve the very same look. The rib designed that this phone is known for is formed by a weaving process of the carbon fiber. As well as the surrounding the phone has a sapphire crystal screen as well as a chassis built with high grade titanium, which is a non-corrosive element.

Yes, luxury phones have many things other cell phones don’t. Principally high grade material and features that make them not only trendy but also powerful and attractive. The Ascent Ti Carbon Fibers is not an exception, nor are the other phones in the carbon fiber collection by Vertu. These include the carbon fiber grip, the carbon fiber & copper grip devices and the carbon fiber & aluminum grip.

A price has still to be named for this delightful piece of hardware though those on a low budget desiring a luxury phone can be assured it’s going to be less expensive than most other luxury phones on the market. Yes, this niche may continue to grow as this demographic of buyers continue to show their support for such products. How big this niche of cell phones can get nonetheless has still to be seen. But like all things cell phone related at about that point in time, the sky is the limit.