Monthly Archives: March 2014

9 Inspiring Business Card Designs from Up & Coming Artists

19 March, 2014Business Cards, Inspiring Designartists design business cards, business card design, business cards, inspiring business card designScott Taylor

The eagle-eyed amongst you will have noticed that we held an Up & Coming Artists – Design a Business Card competition earlier this month.

As we settled on our finalists, even design Jedi Knights like our guys at 123 Print UK felt the artistic pressure when presented with this kind of creativity and quality.

After many hours of umming and ahhing over each design entry, we decided on our top 9 business card designs and we thought we would share these truly imaginative ideas with the 123Print UK community. Take inspiration from these 9 designs, each of which has been designed by the most creative, young talents from top universities around the UK.

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How to Build an Effective Business Plan

12 March, 2014Business Planbuilding a business plan, business plan, effective business planningScott Taylor

For many people, writing a business plan is an absolute essential part of starting a business. For others, a futile piece of paper used only to help you gain investment. Whichever side of entrepreneur thinking you live on, the fact remains, that a business plan (even if it only spans a page or two) can always be the place where you can simply gain some clarity about your service, or more importantly set flexible objectives to measure your success and prevent any potential failure.

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Small Business Spotlight – Optimal You

5 March, 2014Optimal You, Small Business Spotlight#SBS, business success story, entrepreneur tips, entreprenuer story, optimal you, Small business spotlightScott Taylor

Here at 123Print UK we’re big fans of small business. You’re the backbone of our business and the backbone of our country. Because of this we’ve decided to dedicate part of our blog to you, giving you the chance to talk about your business and tell others how you got started and what makes you great…

Optimal You

This week in the 123Print UK small business spotlight is lifestyle brand Optimal You. Read on as we meet owner Niyc Pidgeon, as she talks us through how she came up with the idea for Optimal you and what makes it such a fantastic British business.

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Fashion Tips from the Fashion Club – 123Print UK

4 March, 2014The Fashion Clubfashion cards, fashion club, fashion tipsScott Taylor

Last week the 123Print UK crew teamed up with a number of high profile fashion bloggers for a spot of fashion fun! We felt rather spoilt having our inbox filled with the latest fashion tips from some of the hottest UK fashion bloggers, and a few of us are sporting some dashing new looks this week (Midi Dresses and White Shirts anyone?!?). See the tips from the fashion club in the video below and the ‘on trend’ fashion cards we’ve created as a thank you! Continue reading Fashion Tips from the Fashion Club — 123Print UK →