If you have been on the web for more than a couple of months, you have likely seen advertisements for a company called VistaPrint (link: websites). For those of you who have never used their services, they are a provider of custom printing services, offering items such as business cards and rubber stamps. After seeing a great promotional offer on SlickDeals a little while back, I decided to give them a try to get a few things for myself and my blog.

Although I have heard a variety of things (positive and negative) about the company, overall I was very impressed with the items I received from them. Here is a rundown of the things I purchased:

• Business Cards – I ordered a box of 250 business cards from them to promote my blog. The only other cards I had were my cards from my regular job, and I didn’t want to write my blog address on those in case someone would make the assumption that the blog reflected the views of my employer. I ordered the cards with a green background with the $100 bills and kept the text very simple with the URL, full blog name, my name, and then my blog email address. The quality was excellent and even though they were the free promotional cards the VistaPrint logo was tastefully printed on the back side only.
• Rubber Stamp – I ordered an address stamp for personal use. I had one of these for one of my old addresses from another vendor and absolutely loved it and needed one for my current address. The stamp came just as I ordered and works great. These things really don’t cost much at all and are much more convenient that handwriting your address on an envelope or keeping up with address labels.
• T-Shirt – My last, and favorite, item was a custom t-shirt to promote my blog. I used one of their standard templates and put “CheapEncounters.com” in big letters with the full name “Close Encounters of the Cheap Kind” in smaller letters directly underneath. It is a good quality shirt and the printing came out better than I expected. It is a great promotional item to wear during my CVS runs.

Again, I was overall very happy with my order and would definitely use them again. If you are one of those skittish types that isn’t comfortable giving your credit card number to a company you don’t know, just use a one-time use card number offered by Citi, Discover, or Bank of America. They definitely offer some cool stuff at very good prices.

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