A painter's business card needs five things: your business name and logo, your name, a phone number that rings straight to you, your services in one short line, and a website or QR code. Printing 500 cards runs $20 to $80 online, and design is free with a template or $50 to $200 from a freelancer. The card itself is cheap. What's on it — and whether it sends people to see your work — is what decides if it earns anything.
We run our own home-service companies — a cleaning company in Tucson and an HVAC company in Sacramento — so we hand out cards too. The honest truth: a card supports word of mouth, but it can't get you found online. Here's how to make the card pull its weight, and where it stops.
$20 to $80 from an online printer for standard stock. Premium finishes — thick stock, matte, spot gloss — push it past $100. For a painter, clean and readable beats fancy.
Free with an online template if you have a logo, or $50 to $200 for a freelance designer. If you don't have a logo yet, get one made before the cards, because reprinting is the waste.
A QR code costs nothing to add and points to your gallery or quote form. It turns a paper card into a way for a homeowner to see your work and request a quote on the spot.
Worth pairing with cards. A truck magnet and a yard sign on a finished exterior job advertise to the whole street while you work, for $10 to $30 each.
We'd rather tell you the truth than sell you something. A business card is the right tool when:
A card can't do the one thing that fills a slow schedule: get found by someone searching "painter near me." That homeowner never sees your card. For them, you need a website and a Google Business Profile. The card supports word of mouth; it doesn't replace getting found online.
The best thing your card can do is send a homeowner to a site that shows your work and captures the quote request. That's what we build: a hand-built site with a job gallery and 24/7 AI lead capture, so the QR scan turns into a named, callable lead instead of a dead end.
Our Start Getting Leads plan is $249/month — site, AI lead capture, hosting, and updates, month-to-month, and you own everything. See painting website design and painting marketing, or read SEO for home services and what local SEO costs. The AI receptionist answers the QR-code lead while you're up a ladder.
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Online printers have free templates you can fill in, or a freelance designer makes a custom card for $50 to $200. Get a logo first if you don't have one, so you don't reprint later.
For referrals and warm handoffs, yes. For someone searching online for a painter, no — they never see the card. Use the card for word of mouth and a website for search.
A QR code pointing to a gallery and quote form. It costs nothing to add and turns a card someone pockets into a homeowner who sees your work and requests a quote on the spot.
Send your company name and area — we'll confirm your market is open and build a working website demo within 48 hours. Free, no card, no commitment.
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