Facts About Marketing Greeting Cards

Facts About Marketing Greeting Cards

Do you know about marketing greeting cards? Well, if you don’t, you should know that they are basically your standard print greeting cards but are aimed for business marketing purposes. They are not the “hi hello” greeting cards you send to relatives. These are purposeful greeting cards with precise designs that have specific objectives.

In this guide to greeting cards, I will explain to you the basic facts about marketing greeting cards and how they matter to you and your business. Let me first tell you who exactly uses marketing greeting cards and if you are included in that line up.

Who uses marketing greeting cards? – Almost everyone with a business should find marketing greeting cards useful. Large and small businesses use them for a variety of purposes and marketing objectives. Also some organizations and project teams also find lots of uses for custom marketing greeting cards, especially if they need to develop networks of reliable relationships in their situation. So basically everyone with a need to communicate and to develop relationships can use marketing greeting cards. If you are one of these people, you should consider investing in greeting card printing for marketing.

When to use them? – You should only use marketing greeting cards when they are merited. Do not just distribute them at any time just for fun. There must always be some kind of special event involved when printing custom greeting cards. National and religious holidays are of course ideal for marketing greeting card distribution since most people expect to get cards from these events.

Beyond that, you can also try to use marketing business cards for the birthdays and other special events of your loyal customers and clients (assuming you have their birthday on record). If you have a greeting card for all these important dates, you’ll have a very effective marketing greeting card that should give you success.

Who to give them to? – You give print greeting cards basically to everyone that you want to have a deeper business connection with. Loyal customers, clients, partners and suppliers are just a few of the different kinds of people that you should give a custom greeting card too. If these people discover that you care for them and you remember special dates with them, it will help your business relationship quite immensely. So make sure you give your custom greeting cards to the people that matter first, before giving them to virtually anyone.

The right types of marketing greeting cards: Now before you create your own marketing greeting cards, there are a few different types you should know about.

Customer cards – These kinds of cards are basically the greeting cards that you give to your loyal customers. These not only display special appreciative messages to past and future customers, but they might also include special offers that customers might want to avail of.

P.R. cards – Public relations greeting cards are basically almost like your usual greeting cards but with a more business twist. These kinds of greeting cards are sent to current and potential business cards. These are designed not only to communicate appreciative messages to those people, but they are also made to impress people with your company as you project the right corporate image that they want. So if you want to uplift your company image through greeting card marketing, this is the type of greeting that you will need.

So those are the basics for using marketing greeting cards. Hopefully now, you will know what you need to do with your custom greeting cards for marketing. Good Luck!

Watch the video related to greeting cards

How to begin making your own pop-up greeting cards, starting with your paper; learn this and more in this free arts and crafts video taught by an expert. Expert: Heather McCanna Bio: Heather McCanna has been making cards for ten years. She teaches craft lessons to Elementary School children, and regularly volunteers arts-and-crafts time to a local high school. Filmmaker: Charles McCanna

Help answer the question about greeting cards

What weight card stock should I use for greeting cards if I want them to be sturdy?
I guess what I'd like to know is, what weight is the card stock used in Hallmark or American Greeting cards? I've purchased some packages labeled card stock and they are barely heavier than 24 pound typing paper. I'd like something heavier. Thanks for your help!

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Brad Kartel is a marketing executive whose passion is helping business owners build their campaign through using print greeting cards. More information about custom greeting cards.

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18 Responses to Facts About Marketing Greeting Cards

  1. Michelle C says:

    I probably woudl, but first, I would do some MAJOR advertising…..but, yeah, I'll check it out!!!!!!

  2. dougg1976 says:

    great vid

  3. hassan77008 says:

    very nice work

  4. sball124 says:

    Caed stock is available at Staples, Ofiice Depot, WalMart and stationary stores in a variety of sizes. You may be able to find the ones for cd's with holiday themes there too. I found them at Staples for the cd's I'm giving as gifts.

  5. fantasy _fairy says:

    Hi:

    You might try to find examples on HGTV and DIY's websites. I don't think there is an individual card making show, but I know I've seen spots on Carol Duvall and other craft shows that have cards made from various materials including die-cuts, cardstock, fabric, rubber stamps, and many other unusual items. I make my own holiday cards from my pastel paintings that I take digital images from and then print them out on usually Strathmore deckle edge cards, and use vellum envelopes to mail them.

    Hope this helps and gets you started.

  6. gary g says:

    Try Vistaprint, iPrint, Zazzle

    Good luck with the greeting cards.

  7. ~♡~Moon Goddess~♡~ says:

    http://www.taylorcard.com/grouplist.asp?groupid=27

    http://photo.walgreens.com/?ec=sc_y_photo

    http://www.uniquegreetings.com/cgi-bin/dyo.cgi?category=home

    http://www.usagreetings.com/html/create_your_card.html

    http://www.pitara.com/community/postcard/ucard/

  8. tarvestadcards says:

    Really cool, i liked how you did the mountains

  9. DoveyBuzzy says:

    i have then stored away like you do. Some people would say throw them away, but when you read them they bring back fond memories, which are priceless….perhaps some day you would sort them out, it is a personal choice really

  10. cutiexanjo says:

    wow that was so good but i don’t think i can do that… lol… too much for me… but that was good

  11. OneSilentVoice says:

    Nice one!!!!!!!!! thanks for sharing with us

  12. 4evaTCB says:

    Wow stunning, thank you.

  13. Greetingsmessages says:

    niiice!!

  14. coolcat8484 says:

    huh

  15. Ronnaldo says:

    If you aren't sure where to start, I really, really recomend the book "Artists and Graphic Designer's Market." I included a link to this year's copy. It not only has suggestions for how to submit, but addresses to every greeting card company in America as well as the guidelines for submitting to each. Be warned, though, they're really selective. My boyfriend and I each submit to dozens of things a year, and only every once in a while do our submissions get accepted. The bottom line, though, is to keep trying. If your work at it hard enough and if your art is good, you'll make progress.

  16. joanneli010 says:

    so cool! you are like total bob ross on PBS!

  17. Rosana H says:

    You don't need a factory. Just contract a reduced rate with a printing company to handle your designs in low volume with the hope of increasing business as yours grows. In slow economic times like these, you can negotiate great deals like this. That frees you to spend more time on designs and distribution. Not a bad idea right now so go for it.

  18. buckeye_chanteuse says:

    Hallmark sells a package of blank greeting cards that's 85 lbs. You can buy it at Hallmark or from various stores online.

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