What is Carrd? 8 Reasons Why You Should Use Carrd For Your Next Web Project
Note — this was part of a short audio presentation on inexpensive website builders for our mindfulmarketplace entrepreneurial community. If there are any typos or weird grammatical mistakes in the transcribed text below, my apologies! (I really didn’t write “uh, umm if you find any of those, too :)
If you are a web development company and thinking about using Carrd, here is a short video I did a few months ago on the platform as well. (separate from the audio transcript below)
Okay, so here are 8 really good reasons to use the card platform for building your business.
#1: card is ideal for selling online agency or marketing services. If you’re building a digital media brand card is really an easy offer to put out into the world to get clients quickly and to cultivate your Web design or Web development Business.
#2: Carrd is actually ideal for book launches.
If you are selling a book, writing a book and you need a website for your book launch, there’s no better way than to augment your existing website or to create a brand new website for book launches and author websites.
Independent Carrd developers and designers outside of the platform itself, have actually created some super polished and professional book launch templates that we are using now, and I highly recommend them for bootstrapped book launches where the author doesn’t want (or need) an expensive new site
#3. card is great for directories, or small niche communities of people or products where you have a bunch of profiles that you want to feature or you want to filter.
#4. A Carrd is perfect for improving your gumroad, Podia or Kajabi landing pages. So if you’re selling a product using something like Gum Road, incorporating the card into that, uh, is a almost guaranteed way of amping up your conversion simply because their pages look better than the “stock” Gumroad product page.
#5. Carrd is really an ideal way of testing and MVP or minimum viable product. or offer.
You can quickly and easily put together a card page just to test Facebook traffic or Pinterest traffic or even your own audience traffic, just to see how people respond.
#6. Card is great for simple but great looking personal profile pages. If you’re just creating a simple page for yourself, Card is really the ideal platform for doing that. Why spend a few thousand dollars o a website, when for $19 or so per year for a premium card membership, you can get a great looking page that you know is going to sell you and your business without paying through the nose.
7. IF you need to accept payments, Carrd is ideal for taking stripe payments for taking payments using something like PayPal in a very aesthetically appealing way.
#8. Some of my favorite Carrds are for showcasing video, audio and podcast content. If you want to see some of the crazy cool ways Carrd can be modified and extended to emulate a full video course landing page, or audio podcast that looks like it cost 10X what it actually has, check out some of our examples below.
Lastly, a quick bonus that ought to be obvious, Carrd is also ideal for an agency site. So if you’re building your own landing page for your own miche community or online agency card really makes that super easy.
And I highly recommended Carrd as an alternative to WordPress or Square space or even, in some situations, Shopify, too!
Okay, so there are a couple of good reasons to use Carrd! Hope this has been helpful!
