Get Personal With Custom Greeting Cards

There is nothing quite as personal as receiving custom greeting cards as opposed to the very popular e-card. Although the e-card is easy and a fast way to distribute a greeting, the personal touch of a handmade greeting card just make you feel that more important when you get one.

You may actually make greeting cards yourself for friends and loved ones, I just finished making my engagement invitations with my beautiful bride-to-be, Lauren. We have had so many great comments on how beautiful our invitations and are really glad now that we didn't go down the e-card path or just buy generic off the shelf invitations.

I did get some tips from subscribers to Greeting Card Profits, so thanks for that if you happen to be one. We went to a local craft supply shop and pick out the stock and materials we needed and went from there. We went home and eagerly started making up samples and I got to work in photo shop and I started setting up templates and looking though my collection of fonts.

Anyway the main reason for this post was to tell you about a really cool online photo editing service you can use to do just about everything you would need to do as far as edit and add special effects to images and photos you want to use in your greeting card making.

Its called Photoworks.com and you can even create your own custom greeting cards online. Its a better solution if you don't want to spend big dollars on photo editing software like photo shop. Its definitely worth a look.

The site was formerly known as Seattle Film Works, PhotoWorks has a 30-year national heritage of helping photographers share and preserve their memories with innovative and inspiring products and services.

So if you want to get your hands on this powerful set of photo editing tools that enables you to edit, share, and print photos in any Internet browser(IE, Firefox, Safari, Mozilla, etc.) and with any computer platform (PC, Mac, Linux), then I suggest you can go check out how to make your custom greeting cards using this service. You can register for free and they give you 25 free prints when you sign-up. Nice of them.

If you want to check out some of the newer articles and additions to my greeting card website and a photo of my handy work at making an invitation here at my site: www.greetingcardprofits.com :)

Till next time

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I Just made an invite

Hi all its been a while I know but when you get engaged it's a big deal so I have been off in lalla land. I wanted to shear with you all my engagement invitation making skills or lack there of ... I have to get a lot of the credit to my beautiful bride to be Lauren.

Here's a picture of me and Lauren and my card making efforts.



Anyway that's all for now but keep any eye out because I have some really great tips and ideas for you coming very soon to this blog. It will blow your mind it's that cool.

Till then

David

Test Your Greeting Card Market

Test Your Greeting Card Market

In my last post I showed you a way to spy on your competition and see what they are doing to sell their greeting cards.

Today we're going to look at ways to test your market.

Have you heard the story about the two Fishermen who were fishing on the same big lake.
One Fisherman was catching lots of big fish while the other Fisherman on the other side of the lake wasn't catching a thing.

What was this Fisherman doing wrong? He is fishing in the same lake as the other Fisherman, at the same time of day, using the same boat and fishing tackle.

What is the successful Fisherman's secret?

He knows exactly what part of the lake the biggest and most fish are and he also knows what bait they are attracted to.

This Fisherman has tested different types of bait in different parts of the lake and now, from that testing he knows that each time he goes to the lake to fish his is guaranteed to catch a fish or two or three.

Do you see where I'm going with this?

The same thing applies in business. The big market out there is just like the lake, its full of people looking for products to buy but you need to find where your market is then try out different types of bait on it until you find what it is they bite onto.

So this is what you do.

Go out and approach some businesses that some how are related to the types of cards you sell, for example, a Wedding Photogapher.

Let's say you make Wedding invitations and thank you cards. A Wedding Photographer would be a great place to start because his market is also your market.

So what you can do is set up a "voucher" system. The Photographer simply has a big pile of your "vouchers" he can give out to his customers and prospective customers when they come into meet with him/her.

This voucher offers a free gift ... free Thank You Cards with each order of Invitations (let your mind run free with ideas!), and then include your contact info.

But each voucher also contains a code which is unique to the store.

When they present the voucher to you, you can see this code. Which means if the person presenting the voucher to you becomes a paying customer, you give the Photographer an agreed percentage of the sale.

See, the great thing about this strategy is that you only pay AFTER you have a client. Which is better than paying up front for advertising when you don't even know if it will work!

It's called an "endorsement." And could send a flood of potential customers your way in no time at all.

Of course, I reveal all the tips and techniques about how you can explode your sales in "How To Start Your Own Greeting Card Business".

If you're serious about making some money from your favorite hobby, you couldn't ask for a better opportunity than this. Grab your copy now and get started.



Talk Soon
David W. Allen