8 Common Business Card Mistakes
1. Homemade Cards. If you present a poor quality card your customer will assume that your business will have poor quality products and services. This card does not attract business and can even repel it.
2. Design templates that don’t match the logo. If you are serious about your company's brand, you will need a design that works with your logo. In other words, be very careful if you choose to design it yourself from a template-based design. If the template you choose has not been designed to go with your logo (and very few are), then it will not help keep your company branding consistent. Many online discount printing firms have templates that are over-designed. Using a template like this or templates that feature unrelated photography will often distract from your logo
3. Having a card like everyone else's. Most cards just leave no impression and are soon forgotten. If you leave a card with a customer that looks great, feels substantial and clearly defines what your business offers, they will remember.
4. Not using your logo. Your logo represents your brand, the very personality of your business. Your logo should be on your card.
5. Overcrowded Cards. Appealing business cards are not mini novels. A simple uncluttered card is best. Cull your info down to what is totally essential for your customer to know: your name, company, what you do, and why they should use you.
6. Wasted valuable space on backside. Most business owners fail to utilize the back side of their business cards. The back side is prime space to include important facts, offers and information that help sell your company to the holder. Including valuable offers on your business card will make it worth holding on to.
7. Not having a branded/corporate email address. Nothing says amateur like having a main address that uses a free Yahoo/Hotmail/AOL/Gmail e-mail account. Domain names have a minimal cost and hosted e-mail is very low priced as well. Which of these two addresses sounds more professional to you: RickyRad3456@aol.com or Richard@YourCompany.com?
8. Not using your cards or not keeping them with you. If a customer asks you for your card and you have to dig it out of an overstuffed wallet and pick the lint off of it, or even worse don’t have one at all because you have been planning to get one “soon”, you are losing money. Keep your cards with you, preferably in a card holder, at all times.
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Bonus Video - Business Card Etiquette

Here is a brief video on the etiquette of exchanging business cards. If you do any business internationally you might be interested in seeing how other cultures view the importance of business cards. Even if you don't do business overseas you, we are sure you will find this interesting.

These guys need a Image Graphics business card design.

Every time you exchange cards with someone, to a certain extent they make a judgement on the quality of the company based on the card stock, color, logos and design of your business card. What does your card say?