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Career Seminar Or

How to Build a Benedictine Business Card

Professor Leslie K. McNewExecutive Scholar in Residence, Benedictine University

Managing Partner, MMspire Trading

www.mmspiretrading.com

Contents of this document are proprietary and may not be distributed without the prior written consent of Leslie McNew

http://www.mmspiretrading.com/

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Produce this Card for Benedictine Business School

We are going to produce this card for our Business School Card

Gmail in proper form

See this at bottom on page:

We want signature card.

CLICK on Get Started.

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Getting Started on Vista Print

1. Go to www.vistaprint.com

2. Click the Business Cards tab. Choose a ‘Standard Business Card” option

http://www.vistaprint.com/

Start with the BenU logo and

choose the HORIZONTAL

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Getting Started on Vista Print

1. Choose ‘start with your logo’

2. Choose a horizontal card

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Basic Vista Print Template

1. You will see the following template on the screen

2. We need to change the design for the template/upload logos and fix fonts and sizes

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Changing Basic Template to Benedictine Template

1. Begin designing the front of the card by clicking on a template. Templates are located in

the DESIGN tab on the left of your screen. Choose the third down, as shown below.

2. Next, click the area of the card that you’d like to customize first.

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1. Clicking on the correct template from DESIGN will bring up this template below

2. We are going to have to move around the boxes to get up to the correct ‘look’ for our

business card

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First, click on both Address lines and DELETE

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Next, click on Phone/Other and DELETE

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Next, click on Phone/Other and DELETE

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Benedictine Template: uploading logo

1. This is your basic Benedictine College of Business Card

2. Next we are going to upload the logo. Google Image search “Benedictine University”.

You will see the Benedictine University logo below. Download that image first as you are

going to upload it from your computer. DO NOT COPY AND PASTE

3. Click the Your Photo or Logo Here section, hit ADD IMAGE and import the BenU logo.

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Scaling Logo to Size

1. When you have uploaded the logo, it isn’t going to fit correctly

2. You will see the screen below

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Scaling Logo to Size

1. Click on the logo and the additional screen pops up

2. Hit Crop/Rotate

3. Choose Scale to Fit and the OK

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Scaled Logo to Size on Benedictine Template

Your card should now look like the one below

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Changing Company Name to College of Business – font, font size, left justification

1. Adjust the COMPANY NAME box to be right under the Benedictine logo

2. Change COMPANY NAME to College of Business

3. Choose the Aetna JY Newstyle Font. We will be using this font throughout the card

4. Choose font size of 10/ make sure that all fonts are BOLD

5. Click on MORE and the additional choices of ‘justification’ will pop up. Choose left justified

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Benedictine Template – College of Business

1. Move the College of Business text box to the right to line up the “B” in Benedictine with the “C” in

college as seen below

2. Now Put in your name. You MUST use your middle initial. Use “Company Message Box” for name.

Font size 10 type Aetna JY Newstyle BOLD

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Font size 12 type Aetna JY Newstyle BOLD for your name

Font size 10 type Aetna JY Newstyle BOLD for your graduation date and concentration

Benedictine Template – Adding your name, graduation details

NOTICE that font size changes

1. Name with Middle initial Font size 12 type Aetna JY Newstyle BOLD

2. Graduation Month YEAR, major. Font size 10 type Aetna JY Newstyle BOLD. Use box

currently marked “Web/Other” for your graduation information

3. In order to correctly space graduation month/year on the card, you must shift this text box

down slightly

4. Everything should look like below.

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Font size 8 type Aetna JY Newstyle BOLD for your phone number and gmail address

(area code) SPACE XXX SPACE – SPACE

Hit the MORE tab and hit SPECIAL CHARACTER for the bullet

SPACE then add gmail address

Benedictine Template – Adding phone and email information

NOTICE that font size changes - please notice the use of special characters

1. Click on “FULL NAME” box and delete this box

2. Widen the current “Job Title” text box out to the dotted edges of the card and center

justified to make everything look nice. Font size 8 type Aetna JY Newstyle BOLD

3. Use notes in red below to add phone, professional Gmail

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Benedictine Template – logo/College of Business/name/graduation date/concentration/contact

You are almost done. Your card should look like the one below

Font size 8 type Aetna JY Newstyle BOLD for your contact information

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Benedictine Template – finish with address/contact of Benedictine

1. Widen the ‘Email/other’ text box to the dotted lines

2. Center justify this text box (click on it/select MORE/ choose center justify)

3. Type: 5700 College Road (special character) Lisle, Illinois (special character) www.ben.edu

Font size 8 type Aetna JY Newstyle BOLD for address/contact of Benedictine – center justified and text box

stretched long bottom of the card

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Benedictine College of Business Card

Fonts should be all Aetna JY Newstyle BOLD

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Benedictine College of Business Card

Fonts should be all Aetna JY Newstyle BOLD

Review all fonts as final check. Just click on the text box






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Preview front side of card

1. Click the PREVIEW option near the bottom.

2. Take a look at the card on the screen and make sure its perfect. Have someone else check

your work as once you order, you own it mistakes and all

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Preview front side of card

1. Click the PREVIEW option near the bottom.

2. This is what your card should look like

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Preview Back side of Card

1. Hit the back side tab

2. Your back side the card should be blank. Leave it blank.

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Ordering Your Cards

1. Click Review and Order

2. You will see this screen

3. Click that you have reviewed your card and then click NEXT

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Vista Print: Order

1. You can order your cards as a guest

2. But if you want to save your design to print cards later (recommended), create an account

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Vista Print: Quantity of Cards

1. Pick the quantity of cards you would like to purchase. We recommend at least 250

2. Order cards in a group to save on shipping

3. Check for coupons as there is often a 50% off coupon floating around on the web

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Vista Print: Pick Paper Stock

1. Pick the type of paper you would like for your cards.

2. “Glossy” is what we are ordering

3. After hitting “Next” you will be prompted to buy unnecessary items. After clicking

through those pages, you will be done and ready to put in your shipping and payment

information. You can skip this by using the tab CHECKOUT

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Order

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