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Ideas for the BACK of your Business Cards-

If you're not using the back of your card, you're wasting a valuable resource. The back of your business card can be use to capture and keep your customer's attention. Here are some fun and useful ideas to get you started. Suggestions with an asterisk (*) at the end would require that you create a form on the back of the card for the cardholder to fill in with the suggested info.

• a copy of the FRONT of your card

• acronyms

• acupressure chart

• additional locations

• admission pass

• advertising rates

• amortization schedule

• appointment times*

• area churches

• area telephone prefixes

• artwork

• automobile accident procedures

• awards or honors received

• before/after photos

• Bible verse

• biography

• biorhythm chart

• birthdays & anniversaries*

• BMI (body mass index) calculator

• body measurements*

• books/articles published

• branch offices

• brand names you sell

• business philosophy

• calendar

• calorie or fat gram counter

• calories burned while exercising

• car care checklist

• caricature

• cartoon

• charities you support

• checklist of symptoms

• children's developmental milestones

• child's immunization record*

• city offices (health, public works, utilities)

• class schedule*

• Code of Ethics

• college readiness checklist

• color wheel, complementary colors

• common HTML tags

• common misspellings

• company history

• comparison chart

• contact information for local government agencies

• contact information*

• contest rules

• copy of your email signature file

• cost-cutting ideas

• coupon or discount offer

• courses you teach

• CPR instructions

• credentials

• currency conversion rates

• definitions

• degrees obtained

• Dewey Decimal system

• direction/maps

• disclaimer

• distributors

• emergency phone numbers

• emergency preparedness checklist

• employee names

• energy-saving tips

• entertaining or useful websites

• envelope sizes

• fabric care instructions

• fabric yardage conversion chart

• family clothing sizes*

• favorite quotation

• floor plan

• flower meanings

• food group pyramid

• foreign language phrases

• frequently asked questions

• fuller description of what you do/who you do it for

• fun places to go in town

• game (Tic-Tac-Toe, Hangman, dot-to-dot picture)

• game schedule for local sports team

• goals

• graduation requirements

• growth chart

• guarantee

• heart rate chart

• hobbies

• hours of service

• household safety tips

• how to change a tire

• how to jumpstart a car

• humorous anecdote

• image of a million-dollar bill

• ingredient substitutions

• instructions for Heimlich maneuver

• joke or riddle

• large print version of data on front of card

• loan payment information

• local pharmacists

• major clients

• meeting schedule

• membership card

• menu

• merchants who offer related services

• merchants who'll give discount when card is shown

• metric conversion chart

• mileage-destination chart

• mini-resume

• mission statement

• most popular products

• moving checklist

• nail sizes

• national holidays

• paint/wallpaper names, by room*

• periodic table

• personal medical information*

• pet peeves

• phone card

• phone numbers for time, temperature, weather

• photo

• planting guide

• political organizations

• prescriptions*

• product comparison chart

• product price list

• product uses

• public speaking tips

• quantity discount list

• reasons to purchase NOW

• receipt*

• recipe

• recommended systems/minimal standards

• record of child's height/weight by age*

• reflexology chart

• retirement readiness checklist

• return or refund policy

• ring sizes

• rubber-stamped design

• ruler

• rules and regulations

• screw sizes

• seal of approval

• song lyrics

• stain removal guide

• State/Country elected officials

• stress relief tips

• subscription rates

• survey

• table of weights & measures

• taxi services

• temperature zone map

• Ten Commandments

• Ten Warning Signs of Cancer

• terms and conditions

• testimonial

• thought-provoking question ("Can you afford college?")

• time zone chart

• tips percentage table

• tire tread depth gauge

• toast or blessing

• toll-free phone numbers for airlines

• toll-free phone numbers for car rental agencies

• toll-free phone numbers for hotel chains

• train or bus schedules

• translation of your card into a foreign language

• trivia related to your business or industry

• U.S. Presidents

• U.S. states and capitols

• URLs for Internet search engines

• vision test

• weight loss record*

• wind chill index

• wine list

• work or industry experience

• your signature

• zip/postal codes

• zodiac signs