Love to Stand Out in the Crowd? Then Love MOO.

I have been in love with MOO for well over a year - what’s MOO? MOO.com - they print up the most adorable, professional, fantasmical-looking pieces of stationery I’ve ever seen. I’ve been to 8 tech conferences over the last year or so, and at every single one of them, someone has passed out MOO business cards and thus made themselves stick out from the pack.

What I also love about MOO is that they are so incredibly versatile. They are integrated with Flickr, Vox, even Facebook, which makes it a snap to create products out of your own photo collections, no matter where you have them. They also have ready-made collections from fantastic photographers & illustrators.

Personally, for business use, I love that you can pack a pound of branding into an ounce of pricing. Everything MOO.com carries is less than $20 a set. The print quality is phenomenal, as is the paper stock. With just a little bit of photo cleanup in a program like Photoshop, you can take pictures on your front porch and turn them into an entire set of pro-looking promotional tools (Yes, that’s me. On my porch. And my 13 year old daughter took the pictures too - talk about low-budget!).

[CraftBoom has a tutorial on polishing up photos just like this one]

Since I’m working on heavily promoting my speaking career this year, I made a whole set specifically for this purpose, including notecards, stickers, and the MiniCards (business cards). One afternoon of photos and photo retouching turned out this set (that I’m quite proud of, thank you very much)!

MOO products are really a must if you are a creative - you can’t get cheaper and more high quality materials made of your own illustrations, crafts, design work, or photography. They are also perfect for coaches, authors, speakers, or anyone else that is promoting their personality as part of their business. But what’s cool is that you can also have fun with them and make sticker books of your kids’ drawings, make flash-cards, retail hang-tags, wedding thank you notes, pretty much anything you can imagine.

Yes, I know this sounds like a big, fat, sappy commercial. But that’s what MOO gets for making me fall in love with them.