The best business tool to market your business which comes straight out of the pocket and is with you is the business cards. These business cards are the best word of moth publicity that you can get. 

That said there are variety of ways that you can use the business card as at a networking and marketing tool. 

A lot of people use the double sided business cards as then you get more space to write a lot of things especially if you want to have a select few people who should get these cards. On the back side or rather the other side of the card you can write the website address or you can have survey summary or even good words of wisdom. 

That said it seems like an expensive proposition to have the business cards done. You can definitely go in for the cheap business cards order online but I would suggest that you refrain from that as these companies who offer cheap business cards has two main drawbacks. 

 A lot of companies will have your contact address and they may be able to write in fine print of the contract that they will give this of to the interested third parties. That means that you will start getting calls of the telemarketers as well as the unknown credit card marketing agents. 

Secondly the quality of these cards printed will be a very tough thing to judge online and generally I would say that these cards do not use good paper quality stocks. 

The bets way top reduce the cost is to go for a bulk or wholesale order and the ideal things is to have about 1000 business cards ordered. You would wonder as to why thousand but in most cases the 1000 is an ideal number for the company who is printing your business cards. Make sure that you order a few out of these for special recipients. You can have about 50 or 100 of them made on a special glossy print paper or on special uv coated paper. 

The 1000 business cards seems like a large number but then if you are in business where marketing and networking counts then thousand is not a huge number. The general cost of these 1000 cards is about 29-30 dollars and it is printed 14pt card stock. These cards are mostly have the UV coated paper.