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Business Card Stats & Facts
| Business Card Statistics |
Data |
| Annual US business card printing industry revenue |
$798,600,000 |
| Number of business cards printed daily |
27,397,260 |
| Number of business cards printed in the U.S. annually |
10,000,000,000 |
| Company sales increase for every 2,000 cards passed out |
2.5 % |
| Percent of business cards handed out that will be thrown out in less than a week |
88 % |
| Reason given for throwing out business card |
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| Don’t need service provided by card giver |
63 % |
| Don’t want to do business with specific card giver |
24 % |
| Added information into digital contact list |
9 % |
| Other |
4 % |
| Prospective clients hold on to a color card 10 times longer than a standard white card |
| Opinions Poll on Business Cards |
Yes |
No |
| Survey conducted by Statistic Brain Research Institute online from 842 working professional respondents |
| Do you judge a company of person by the quality of their business card? |
72 % |
28 % |
| Would you choose not to do business with someone if they have a "cheap looking" business card? |
39 % |
61 % |
| Is a color business card more memorable to you than a plain white card? |
78 % |
22 % |
| Would you pay more for nicer looking business cards even if it didn’t bring you more business? |
41 % |
59 % |
| Do you feel that having business cards is essential to your business? |
57 % |
43 % |
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