I have sold a few business cards in my day.
The best way to see if it for you is to go out and give it a shot.

Find a printer,
get some printed for yourself,
use the samples they send to show what can be done,
knock on some doors and see what happens.

Show them the benefit(s) that your $150-$200 cards will give them over their dull boring $40 cards.

something that has worked for me was to add value to the back of the card, a reason for the end user of the card to hang on to it.

I don't really think you need a report to determine if you can do this.!
You can try it for free. If it works, great! If not, you have very little out of pocket expense.
Jason

Jason