How do you send your birthday cards...
Holiday cards, Thank-You, Get Well Soon, Thinking of You, Congratulations on Your Closing, Thanks for the Referral; and all your other cards for that matter?
Do you run to the store and buy them one at a time when the need arises? Do you keep a box of blank, generic cards handy; send a handwritten note or take the time to type a letter? Or perhaps do you send an E-Card?
It's nice to stay in touch personally and in your business isn't it?
But ...
It's inconvenient, it costs too much and frankly you often forget until it's too late.
What if there was a better way?
Send your next card (and include a gift) with an online service - with SendOutCards. Learn how the convenience, personalization and low cost make this choice a definite winner!
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Holiday cards, Thank-You’s, Get Well Soon, Thinking of Card with SendOutCards
You, Congratulations on Your Closing, Thanks for the
Referral – and all your other cards for that matter?
Do you run to the store and buy them one at a time when
the need arises? Do you keep a box of blank, generic
cards handy; send a handwritten note or take the time
to type a letter? Or perhaps do you send an E-Card?
It’s nice to stay in touch personally and in your business
isn’t it?
But ... How do you send your birthday cards …
It's inconvnient, it costs too much and frankl you often
forget until it's too late. Holiday cards, Thank-You’s, Get Well Soon, Thinking of You,
Congratulations on Your Closing, Thanks for the Referral –
and all your other cards for that matter? Do you run to the store
What if there was a better way? and buy them one at a time when the need arises? Do you keep
a box of blank, generic cards handy; send a handwritten note
Send your next card (and include a gift) with an
or take the time to type a letter? Or perhaps do you send an E-
online service - with SendOutCards. Learn how the
Card? It’s nice to stay in touch personally and in your business
convenience, personalization & low cost make this
isn’t it?
choice a definite winner!
Think about how nice it is to be on the receiving end of a
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thankfulness. Really, stop right now and think about it for a
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give. This principle applies both in your personal life and in time. (Wow, I think that’s a run on sentence – but I have no
your business. doubt it’s definitely a run on job!)
But back to your card sending. How do you do it? Have you Now with an online service you can do all that from your own
ever used an Online Card Service? And no, I’m not talking home and at any time of the day – not just during store hours.
about an email card (Ecard) or a printable Happy Birthday You can personalize the card with photos, business logos,
card for example. In the later case you have just set yourself personal handwriting fonts and signatures and mail it out with
up as the “printer” on top of everything else that demands next day turn-around all in just a few minutes! Add to that
your time and attention. No, let’s look at using an online card the convenience offered by some online greeting card services
sending service. I think you will be surprised and impressed that allow you to add gift cards from many different retailers as
at what you hear. well an assortment of various other gifts to your greeting card
order and you have a ready made service suitable for literally
Why Use an Online Card Service to every occasion.
Send your Happy Birthday Card?
Well you’re likely here because you are simply looking for
Birthday Cards – or you’re already convinced of the value of
using an online card service and are just looking to find out
which service is the best service for your needs – or perhaps
you are interested in the concept of an online card service but
are not yet convinced it is indeed the best way to go.
Perhaps you are thinking:
Perhaps it’s the nephew who just graduated from high school
• Is it personal enough? or a relative with a birthday, or a friend you won’t get to see
over the Christmas holidays that you’d like to send a gift to,
• Is the selection good? or maybe it’s condolences or a get well card and gift you’d like
• Is it too complicated? to send. You name it, there are so many times when a card
or gift is exactly what’s needed. Unfortunately because of the
• Is it more expensive? busyness of life and the very real hassle of getting out to the
store and picking out a card and gift and getting them mailed
What if instead the truth was:
– many of us simply don’t follow through on the thoughtful
• Personal? It is very personal because of the ideas and promptings we so often have.
customization options including personal photos, logos,
personal handwriting and personal signature (even the
option to add video to a card!) which can all be used to The Internet Has Changed our
create a very unique custom card. World and Changed the Way We
• Selection? There is a much greater selection of cards to Send Birthday Cards – Now We can
choose from with an online greeting card service and they Send Happy Birthday Cards Online.
are equipped with built in search functions so you’ll have
no problem finding the exact card you want. Just the other day my son got engaged – On Valentine’s Day
actually! Needless to say it was a special day for he and his
• Complicated? In fact it could not be more simple than girlfriend and for all our family. He had secretly arranged for
to simply point and click and your card is mailed in 60 a photographer to use a telephoto lens to capture the special
seconds or less. moment on camera both with still shots and with video. The
• Expensive? The cost per card for online services is beautiful Rocky mountains made a perfect backdrop for the
no more expensive than store bought cards and some occasion. Amazingly though, by the end of the day literally
services offer fully customizable cards at t 1/3 the price hundreds of friends and family new about it because of the
of a store bought card. ubiquitous cell phone, texting, twitter and Facebook.
Truly technology has made the whole world our neighbor.
Today’s Online Greeting Card Boundaries have shrunk and blurred and time frames have
Services Offer a Convenience been compressed. It takes no time for other people to know
about our business, our needs and the events of our lives.
Unheard of In the Past. The same is true for getting in touch, staying in touch and
Until now sending out a card to say Happy Birthday, reaching out to friends, family and business associates. What
Merry Christmas, Congratulations, Thank-You, Get Well or was once a fairly laborious and time consuming process can
whatever, meant getting in your car, driving to the nearest now be accomplished in a fraction of the time, at a fraction of
store, rummaging through the cards hoping the selection the cost, yet without shaving off any of the personalization and
wasn’t picked through, purchasing an overpriced card, taking uniqueness!
it home, writing your message in it, signing it, stuffing the
envelope, finding a stamp and getting it to the post office –
hopefully in time to get it to the recipient before the appointed
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Women purchase an estimated 80% of all
For This Reason – More •
greeting cards. Women spend more time
Convenience & Less Cost – the Use choosing a card than men, and are more likely
of Online Card Services Has Risen to buy several cards at once.
Rapidly. • Greeting card prices can vary from 50 cents to
$10 – with a price point for every consumer.
I’m not talking about E-card services where an electronic card The vast majority are between $2 and $4. (Total
is sent to someone’s email (likely to be blocked, spammed out, price per year includes boxed cards.) The cost
deleted or ignored) but rather about real printed greeting cards of a typical counter card, however, is between
– of stunning quality none the less – sent though the US mail $2 and $4. Cards featuring special techniques,
service. And no, these are not printable cards done online to intricate designs and new technologies and
be created on your paper with your ink and on your time. No, innovations – such as the inclusion of sound
these are professional, top quality, “done-for-you”, automated chips and LED lights – as well as handmade
services. cards, are at the top of the price scale.
Just think about all the ways you could put an online card • Seven out of 10 card buyers surveyed consider
service to work. Studies show that people have a need for 70 greeting cards “absolutely” or “almost” essential
cards per year but only send out about 10. Why? Because they to them. Eight out of 10 of these buyers expect
forget, because it’s too expensive and becuase they just don’t their purchases to remain the same going
have the time – it’s inconvenient. How about … forward. Of the balance, twice as many card
buyers say they will “increase” their purchasing
• your niece just turned 3 years old
as say they will “decrease” their purchasing in
• your parents just celebrated their 50th anniversary the coming year.
• your child’s teacher who made such a difference this year
So before you head out to rummage through the racks over at
for him at school
the card store, before you risk getting your next E-card deleted,
• the friend you just found out who is sick and in the before you contact an expensive printer to custom create your
hospital daughter’s High School Graduation Announcement – consider
• your son who is off overseas on a summer internship the following benefits of using an online card service. Sending
out your next Happy Birthday card might just be easier than
• the friend off serving in the military overseas you think.
• your new client who needs that thank you card
Look at What an online Card Service
• that “thank you for the referral” card
Can Do For You:
Take a look at this video. My wife, Vonda, is demonstrating
just how quick and easy it is to use one of these services – and 1.
how you can customize the cards.
Note the following facts provided by the Greeting Card
Association about the ever popular nature of Greeting Cards:
• Americans purchase approximately 6.5 billion
greeting cards each year. Annual retail sales of Like Everyone Else You Are Short On Time and Long On
greeting cards are estimated at $8 billion. To-Do’s. You Need a Time Saver - Time is a precious
• The most popular Everyday card-sending commodity whether it be your personal time or company
occasion by far is Birthday, followed by a time. Save a little time and do it again and again – many
number of secondary occasions that include times over and voila – you’ve just saved a lot of time.
Sympathy, Thank You, Wedding, Thinking of Time is money. Think about it. How many of us even
You, Get Well, New Baby and Congratulations. change the oil in our cars these days or change the brake
pads? I used to do both of those jobs but haven’t now
• The most popular Seasonal cards are Christmas for years. Why? Because others are set up to do it for
cards, with some 1.6 billion units purchased me faster and more conveniently and considering the
(including boxed cards). This is followed by disposal fees, just as cheap. And speaking of clean up, I
cards for Valentine’s Day (145 million units, not can leave that to somebody else.
including classroom valentines), Mother’s Day
(133 million units), Father’s Day (90 million 2. Could You Use a Personal Assistant to Run Your Mail
units), Graduation (67 million units), Easter Service? - How about not having to make sure you have
(57 million units), Halloween (21 million units), an envelope on hand, that you have the needed stamps
Thanksgiving (15 million units) and St. Patrick’s (that’s 46¢ now by the way) and that you get it into the
Day (7 million units). mailbox on time for delivery. How many times have I
bought a card but didn’t have stamps and so the card sat
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on my desk until it was too late to send. Oh well, save it with panache. Say it powerfully, personally and
for next year. But I digress… unpredictably. With ready-made templates, borders,
custom elements, photos, logos, handwriting fonts and
3. Would You Like to Make Your Cards Stand Out Among
personal signatures, video cards and more – the options
the crowd with Unique Personalization? – Now here is
are limitless.
where online card services really earn their keep. As in
the video above, “Cards Say A Lot, But Your Words Say 2. Choices,Unbeatable Variety and Selection Size. If you
It Best”. Truth is it is often hard to find a card that says don’t want to custom create your card there is surely a
what you really want to say and if it does it is usually card just right for you – already created.
on the wrong card – or if it is the right card it has the 3.
wrong words. Finding one that scores on both counts
can feel like winning the lotto. But just in case you aren’t
the polished wordsmith you’d like to be there are still a
plethora of cards to select from. You can definitely find
the one that says it just right and does it on the perfect
looking card. One of the card services, SendOutCards,
boasts a categorized, searchable selection of over 8,000 High Standards and High Quality. Luxe quality is the
cards! name of the game with top level providers. A good online
4. service invests heavily in acquiring the works and designs
of talented graphic artists, in using only top quality
materials for both card and envelope as well as is using
only top of the line printing machines.
4. A Very Attractive Price. This time your eyes will bug out
not in shock at the wallet draining price but at the money
saving move you just made. Cut out the middle man and
Ever Forgotten a Birthday? How about Never Forgetting the online card services can really shine here. Though
A Birthday or Important Event Again with Built In you will need to do your due diligence as some services
Reminders from the Service? – Of course you’ve will only offer the convenience of online card sending
forgotten. That’s why there’s a whole category called but not the cost savings. Some however will offer their
“belated birthday cards”. I like how someone once out services with all the trimmings at only 1/3 the average
it, “I don’t forget birthday’s – I just remember late”! cost a store bought card, envelope included.
(How about the definition, “coming or being after the
customary, useful, or expected time” Oops! “Now whose 5. Better Than User Friendly. Let’s face it you can order
birthday was that? And is it the 7th or 17th?” Let’s these cards anywhere at anytime. Yeah, even in your
face it we live in the information age and it is often P.J’s. Doing your business from the comfort and privacy
information overload. So, rely on modern technology of your own home, foregoing the traffic, the crowds and
with gigabytes of memory capacity to fill in the gaps the hassle of it all – is unequivocally user friendly. If
of your failing memory when needed. These online you’ve never done it you are in for a real treat. And
systems are equipped with mechanisms that remind as for the online process itself – even a child could do
you of important upcoming events – say a birthday, it. It’s as simple as point and click. And how about
an anniversary or even the anniversary of a home or being perpetually open – midnight, weekends, snow
car purchase. You name it and a trigger can be set to days, Christmas day – you name it. the sign always says
ensure you never forget to get that important Thank You, open for business.
Congratulations or Happy Birthday Card out and in the 6. Got to The Hallmark Store and then Keep Going… to the
mail on time. Post-Office. They Won’t Mail it For You. Beside selection
5. Security – In relation to free online E-Card services paid and convenience this may be THE point that sets the
membership sites offer strong online security, protection online service apart from the brick and mortar store. It’s
and privacy. E-card services are often littered with like going to McDonald’s only better. No artery clogging
annoying and aggressive pop up advertising. And frankly cholesterol but service “your way” and at the speed of the
the selection is thin and though they are inexpensive internet. Someone else prints, stuffs, licks, stamps and
– what they really are is cheap and annoying to many mails your order while you go about doing whatever it is
people – though this may serve a need for you if you wish. you want to do!
7.
WHAT SETS ONLINE CARD SERVICES
APART FROM STOREFRONT CARD
STORES
Now You Can Effortlessly Kill Two Birds with One Stone.
1. A Better Way To Express yourself by way of Mark two items off your to-do list with a single pen
unlimited personalization options. Say it with pizazz, stroke How about the option of adding a gift or gift
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card with that Birthday card, Wedding Card or Sympathy
Card? The simplicity and ease of this option compared A a long time user of Online card Services, over 8 years
to finding a gift, buying the packing materials, packing it in fact, I have a lot of experience and exposure to various
up and heading down to the local shipping store or post systems and tools. If you would like my biased opinion I would
office to get it in the mail … night and day! Enough said. highly recommend SendOutCards as the preeminent online
8. Did You say Automation? Ever go through a car-wash, card service. If you’d like to try this system out for free, take a
pop your dinner in the microwave, set your French Roast test drive with no cost and no commitment, my wife Vonda and
to waft it’s sumptuous aroma through your kitchen just I would be glad to offer that to you. In fact, since you came here
as you get out of bed? Yes, you too like and utilize looking for a “Happy Birthday Card”, click the button below
automation. It’s a good thing. Put automation to and send a happy Birthday Card, a Happy Birthday wish or a
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Vonda Downs reveals how this system can work for you too.
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Winners
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I have a varied background, serving first as a Minster
in Seattle, San Francisco and Indianapolis, I now work
as a Physician Assistant. I love the experience, skills and
opportunity to serve others that both of those professions have
provided me. However, in 2012 I embarked on a part time
Entrepreneurial course in Network Marketing and Internet
Marketing. My wife and I now have a team of over 1,100
distributors and have over 5,000 customers. Our product is
unique in the market - a cutting edge tool harnessing Hi Tech
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