400gsm Silk Artboard
Full colour onto thick 400gsm artboard.

Because your business card is your silent salesman make sure it is smart, professional, up to date with the latest information and a proper reflection of your business.

Consider folding cards for extra space or stand out with a cut-shape or for extra luxury go for laminated business cards.

To touch and feel some samples, just contact us today for a sample pack.

400gsm Silk Artboard - FREE delivery to your UK address is included

Don’t leave looking professional to chance, call us today on 0845 077 9020

• A regular 400gsm silk business card says all the right things about your business
• Full colour both sides so you can include photos, social media and accreditation logos
• UK standard size of 85 x 55mm, so they fit in card holders with ease
• Extra thick 400gsm silk artboard which is smooth with a quality feel
• These cards can be written on so are great as appointment cards too
• UK delivery included
• 100% satisfaction guarantee
• Still not convinced? No problem order samples >

If you don’t already have artwork prepared, our in-house studio team will quickly create a professional design for you. With the very latest design software, years of experience and surprisingly affordable prices you can afford to add creativity to the ideas you want to see in print.

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400gsm Silk + Matt Lamination + Spot UV

Spot UV Business Cards are matt laminated both sides and then spot gloss highlights are added providing a striking and highly original finish.

Other ways to give your cards the wow-factor include folding or cut-out business cards.

To touch and feel some samples, just contact us today for a sample pack.

Spot UV Business Cards include FREE delivery to your UK address.

Don’t leave looking professional to chance, call us today on 0845 077 9020

• A truly eye-catching finish
• Full colour both sides so you can include photos, social media and accreditation logos
• UK standard size of 85 x 55mm, so they fit in card holders with ease
• Matt laminated for extra thickness and an irresistibly smooth and quality feel
• A spot gloss is applied for visually striking results
• These cards can be written on, in non gloss areas, so are great as appointment cards too
• UK delivery included
• 100% satisfaction guarantee
• To touch and feel click here to order samples >

If you don’t already have artwork prepared, our in-house studio team will quickly create a professional design for you. With the very latest design software, years of experience and surprisingly affordable prices you can afford to add creativity to the ideas you want to see in print.

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Do your business cards fit in with the way you do business. Here’s how you can improve their usefulness as part of your toolkit.

Functionality – Being able to write on your business card is essential, everyone in business knows how important it is to be able to make notes.

Your message - A hard hitting tagline differentiates you and will speak to your audience. Your card should shout about who you are and what you stand for.

Professional email and URL - To be taken seriously you need a professional domain name. Not Yahoo, Gmail or Hotmail! A grown up company domain name.

Social Media - Include your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and even your Blog URL. Show that you are an active participant in the way business is done today.

QR code - A QR (quick response) code is truly useful for the rapidly growing number of website visitors using mobile devices to search for what they need.

Photo - Show you’re proud of and stand by your business by including your photo. It will also make your card truly memorable.

Business cards can work for or against your business. What do yours do?

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Our initial enquiry was handled promptly. We were pleased with the advice and guidance we received. We were kept up to date and overall we were very satisfied with OceanPrint.co.uk’s service. We’re very likely to return again soon.

David Oakley, Ferndown

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Print & Graphic Design Services Poole

Oceanprint is a full service graphic design and print company that has offices in the local Poole area. Our graphic design team has a long standing experience with graphic design services for all types of businesses.

Graphic Design for Print

Our graphic design experience has delivered both the graphic design and print work under one roof for clients, which helps them keep their costs down and ensures deadlines are kept due to everything being handled under one roof.

We can also help a company choose a branding direction for their target market as we have experienced first hand what has been successful brand design in the past with other companies.

Graphic Design in Poole

We have an office in the Poole, Dorset area and often like to meet with clients to discuss their print and design requirements face to face. This allows us to get a feel for the business and suggest ways that their graphic and print direction would help them the most.

Graphic Design Services

Our most common requests from Businesses for graphic design are:

• Business Cards
• Letterheads
• Leaflets / Brochures

We also provide a lot more types of graphic design  for print based material so just ask and we may even put together a package for you.

Tips for Good Graphic Design:

Consistency with Graphics

Be consistent in your branding and choice of palette and fonts across all of your print materials. You should establish branding guidelines in your business and make graphic designers and print companies aware of them if they already exist.

Brand to Your Market

If you are discussing branding ideas with an experienced graphic designer, let them have access to any research about your market that you have performed. It’s also good to take their advice on what will work as sometimes their previous experience with a market can really help your fledgling brand.

Try Not To Trend

Sometimes it’s tempting to use current trends or currently fashionable logo styles to start your company with. This might make your company look very “now” but this could quickly date and go out of fashion.

Using “now” style graphics is ok for short term print based materials such as season catalogues & flyers but be careful if this your main logo or brand. Another pitfall is using stock clipart or free images. Nothing prevents another company from using the same branding as you, which might be problematic if your business becomes successful and your identity is used elsewhere!

Poole Businesses

Of course, the above tips don’t just apply to companies in the Poole area but serves as an example of some of the advice that we can help local Poole based businesses with if they are looking for a reliable and experienced graphic design & print company on their doorstep.

We welcome the opportunity to provide Poole businesses with the chance to get free quotes on graphic design and print with Oceanprint.

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Here are 4 great ways you can turn your business card into a powerful marketing tool – today!

If you really want to turbo charge your marketing material and win more customers then your business card is a great place to start. Why should company’s business card, which could be the single most important piece of marketing material be given less importance that your company brochure, leaflet or newsletter. It most likely going to be seen by more customers and prospects than any other piece of printed material your organisation produces.

So here at OceanPrint HQ we thought you’d appreciate some ideas to turn the oh so average, the incredibly overlooked business card into something of a super star in your marketing canon. We want you to consider turning your business card into something with the WOW factor and we’re starting with 4 easy ideas.

Social stuff

First off we’ll start with the obvious – but as yet still not on the majority of business cards – the Social media sites. If you’re on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, and you want others to follow and who doesn’t want more and more fans, then take the opportunity to add the logos when getting your next print order. It’ll show your business is forward thinking every time you hand out a card.

QR Code

QR code, it’s the black and white square you’ve seen around made up of smaller squares in an irregular pattern. If you’re not sure what I’m talking do a quick Google.

Adding a QR code to your business cards is a great idea, once scanned on your smart-phone reader it’ll take you straight a desired website. This could be your website’s homepage or competition page or monthly special offer page – the opportunities for QR codes are endless. A must have.

Cherry-picked testimonials

Ever thought of having two or three cherry-picked testimonials on your business card? Well imagine that tomorrow you hand a prospect your business card and at the same time a competitor does, only theirs has some fantastic testimonials on one side. And perhaps underneath those testimonials it says ‘Read more glowing testimonials on our website today’. As yourself, which of you has already got an advantage?

Add a photo of yourself

Okay I know what you’re thinking, I could never do that, it’s really American. But just consider for a moment this scenario.

Your at a networking event and everyone  is having a quick chat then exchanging business cards, then having a chat with the next person and exchanging cards  - you get where I’m going with this – you’re having a great time your putting quite a few cards in your pocket ready to retrieve later. Whilst you’re chatting you’re remembering  faces, most likely at that time not actually interested in the business cards, but later, perhaps even the next morning when we lay the cards out on the desk to add to contact details to your database you’ll see the photo of a person you have chat to and immediately be able to associate the face with company and remember the conversation you had.

And if it is true that people buy people then that company representative is on their way to building a relationship with you ahead of their competitor!

More powerful business card ideas to follow soon… Adding a promise or guarantee. What makes you different? What do you do?

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We have used Ocean for printing our promotional material more than once – on each occasion they have delivered on time, provided a product of quality, all at an affordable price. I can highly recommend Jason and his team.

Grant Foster, High Wycombe
www.pattestnow.co.uk

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Exciting Times

For businesses to continue to prosper and grow it is important to step out of the comfort zone and look to increased marketing, communication and innovative solutions with new and existing customers.

So many of our customers are now embracing the power of social media, we’ve recently created a logo and background for a Twitter page, given advice on Facebook pages for a business and posted a proof of a brochure on our Facebook page for the client to see. These are all things not typically considered part of the service a ‘traditional’ printing company offers – but we do!

At the end of the day all businesses offer a service, we solve a problem and whilst we all grapple with these ‘additional’ forms of media it changes the way we all approach our business life.  A good example here is the content of what we print. So much of the marketing material we now produce includes QR codes, logos for LinkedIn, Twiiter and Facebook. Many customers now look to promote these other forms of communication and build online relationships and so promoting this in printed material makes sense.

So these are for sure very exciting times for you, us and the way we all communicate with one another.

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Steps to an Effective Newsletter

Newsletters are an effective form of communication enabling strong links between your company and employees, as well as between your company and your customers. There are certain key factors to consider when producing a newsletter to ensure it is both effective and successful, no matter who your target audience is.

Effective Design

When designing your newsletter you will want to keep in mind that it needs to be appealing to look at. Color graphics, bold text, clean lines and intuitive layouts will make your newsletter appealing and attention grabbing. The more visually appealing your newsletter is, the more likely it will be read rather than overlooked. You can also employ the services of a graphic designer to help you come up with the right format. However, your printing company will usually have an in-house designer that you can work with, which is a great resource to have. A great place to start is to look at a variety of newsletters that you have received and see what stands out to you about each one. Take note of what works and what doesn’t work and try to incorporate the successful elements into your newsletter.

Short and Simple

We live in a world of short attention spans and because of this reality, it is likely that your newsletter will be scanned, at best. If you want certain key points to stand out, it helps to bullet point them and make titles bold. When expanding on your points it is also worth considering using concise sentences. This allows your readers to easily see what you consider to be the most important information. Whether your newsletter is one page or several pages, keeping your topics short and simple is important.

Build your Relationship

Your newsletter is a tool to help bring your clients to you and build on your relationship. If you provide useful information, such as tips and advice, your newsletter will become more valuable to them. When this happens, it is likely that they will seek you out to learn more. Providing useful information reinforces your position as the go to person or company when they need the product or service you offer.

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I first met Jason through a business meeting and he very quickly demonstrated how some small insignificant changes to the way we placed print orders could have a massive effect on costs with no downside on final results.

To this day the ideas Jason and his team come up with not only mean you constantly get fresh ideas that work, but you also know they are keeping an eye out for costs as well.

Jason always helps our brands get value for money and this keeps cost down without having any less impact. His attention to detail when checking orders and never being afraid to make suggestions always ensures Jason will help you achieve the results you are striving for.

Thanks for all your help again Jason.

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