Hi guys since we're doing business remotely at the moment still I want to show you how
to easily generate a QR code so that you can add it to a digital business card.
After that I'll show you three creative ways to share your business card
with your connections. And even when we can meet up again in person a digital business card
is going to save you so much money in terms of printing expenses, it's kinder to the environment
and you can go ahead and you can change it as many times as you want. And the best part is
it's totally free because I'm going to be using my favourite design tool. And let's be honest don't
these kind of business cards either end up being filed in the bin or they get lost completely?
Hi and welcome to my channel. If you're new here I'm Nicky Pasquier and I help small businesses
like you successfully market their brands online using some of the best marketing tips,
tricks and tools. All you will need for this tutorial is a free or a pro Canva account.
So if you're ready let's hop over to Canva. So here I am on my Canva desktop. And you know me
I hate wasting time looking for what I need so I'm going start
off by placing my cursor in the search bar right at the top here and typing in "business card"
and Canva as you can see Canva will bring up some suggestions underneath here. You
might also see that a Canva business card template dimensions are 3.5 inches x 2 inches,
which is roughly 8.9 cm x 5.08 cm. So I'm just going to click on the business card link here.
You can see that Canva brings up a whole load of suggested templates. As always
Canva will allow you to preview a template before opening it up onto your desktop
and to do that all you need to do is hover your mouse over the top right hand corner of
a template and clicking on these three little dots here and then selecting 'Preview this template'.
So this is the front of the business card, and using the handy thumbnails underneath you can
also preview the back of the business card. Scrolling down you can see the design colours,
the fonts and of course the size. So I'm going to close this down because I don't want to use it
and I'm going to go back up to the top and click on 'Create a blank business card'.
I'm then going to place my cursor in the search bar here to narrow down my search and see if I can
find a relevant business card. So let's say for instance I want to find a business card for a cake
maker. So I'm going to type in 'cake' and see what Canva brings up. And there are lots of gorgeous
templates to choose from. I like the look of this one so I'm going to select it to open it up.
Of course there are two pages, the front page and the back page.
I'm going to click on the front page to bring it up onto my template so I'm going to click on it
once. And I have a lovely graphic of a food mixer and some text on the right hand side.
Now since we're not going to be printing off the business card, it's going to be a virtual
one we don't need to use the back page. And as I'm sure you know already as with all Canva templates
you can completely customise the template to add your own brand fonts and your brand
colours.
And here's a little 'Nicky Ninja' tip for you. If you love this graphic and you want to find more
of the same just click on it once, click on the 'i' for information button and Canva will tell
you exactly what this icon is. It's a kitchen mixer icon, it's free, you can add it to your
'Likes' folder, you can add it to another folder or you can see 'More like this' to find similar
graphics. And on the left hand side I can see some graphics which are exactly the same in style
So if you don't like that particular one you can swap it for something slightly different.
And now for the exciting part we're going to be adding the
QR code. So I'm just going to create a little space for the code
Now to find the QR code you need to go to the sidebar once again and scroll right down,
right down, right down, right down, right to the bottom until you find this little
link here with three little dots and the word 'More' underneath.
Click on that and find 'Apps and Integrations'. And you'll see underneath that section
you'll find a QR code icon. So click on that and now I'm prompted to copy and paste
a website URL into this box right here. So I'm just going to add my own website URL here.
Once done all I need to do is click on 'Generate code' and magically Canva brings up a QR code
which is unique to my website. Once generated you can then customise your QR code even further. You
can resize it by grabbing a hold of one of the corner buttons and making it smaller or larger.
Place your cursor over the QR code, hold it down and then drag the QR code into a new position. You
can also customise the colour. The black coding will always stay black but you can add a brand
colour by clicking on the QR code once to select it and selecting one of your own brand colours.
Just in case there's any doubt as to what I want people to do I'm going to add a little
call to action text to my template to encourage them to scan my QR code.
And I think I might just add an arrow as well just to be absolutely clear.
Once I'm finished all I need to do is go to the downward arrow, click on it, choose my
file type and it's going to be a PNG high quality image and download it. Make sure you
download it somewhere which is easily accessible via mobile, and I'll show you why in a second.
I saved my business card to Dropbox so I can easily access it via my smartphone. So I'm just
going to open it up and there it is. Sorry about the shine. And it's really easy to share from
Dropbox using this link right here. And I'll show you how to do that now. Tap on the 'Share' button
add an email address
add your message and then click on 'Share'. You can even go ahead and
add some eye-catching features, animate the text
animate your QR code
add some eye-catching stickers
download your graphic as an MP4 video
and upload it to social media.
Finally if you have Canva Pro you can resize your card using the resize tool in the top
left hand corner of your Canva toolbar, Click on resize, change the size to say a Facebook Cover,
download your graphic again as a PNG file
and then upload it as a Facebook Page cover photo.
And that is all there is to creating a digital business card and adding a QR code. If you enjoyed
this tutorial please give it a thumbs-up to support my channel. Of course feel free to
share it with your friends. Thank you so much for watching and I will see you in the next video.