Greeting Card Alert!
What makes for a fabulous greeting card? Your house! In my case, my building. I call my building “my castle.” I always wanted to live in a building. I would walk the streets of Chicago and stare at the building, dreaming of buying one. Fast forward to the purchase of foreclosure-in building-awesomeness. It didn’t have much in the way of heating, a kitchen, or any livable space, but… it was mine.
With a little love and a heap of money, I now have heat but still no kitchen. Who cares! […]
How to start a Greeting Card Business
Want to start a Greeting Card Business
Have you ever thought about starting a greeting card business of your own but you just didn’t know where to start and who to go to for the right advice? Before going into any greeting card business you need to have a passion for it. Not a passion of business itself but for your greeting card business. By focusing on your passion and not ‘Making Money’ the financial reward of living your passion will result in a successful business.
One of the biggest traps for people who go into a greeting card business for themselves is they are simply buying themselves […]
My Kick Butt Start to my Film Greeting Card Line
I Dream of Jeannie,
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My Kick Butt Start to my Film Greeting Card Line!
I dreamed about creating my greeting card line for four years before I decided I needed to do it. I work in the film business on different feature films (The Dark Knight, The Fugitive) and TV shows (Chicago Fire, Mind Games), and for years I searched for cool greeting cards to give to my assistants as thank you cards for a job well done. I went from store to store to try and find anything related to the […]
Picture Stamps Are Fun
Picture Stamps Are Fun
Picture stamps and stamp collecting is one area that I’ve been interested in for some years now. Picture stamps tell an account of the many nations around the world. They represent many cultures and give and share many animal images, and famous people from other respective nations. Country leaders to the every day person.
My assortment of picture stamps fluctuate as well as picture stamps that intrigue me the best would be the foreign stamps. My collection features a pretty massive quantity of Chinese stamps, along with India and Romania. China is definitely a nation of […]
Compiling the greeting card keyword data
By now you should have compiled a list of keywords based on the theme word ‘Greeting Cards’. I this next video I take you through the process of finding and compiling the keyword data that is vital when planning your online greeting card business.
I show you two ways of getting this data; the manual way and using a software based tool called Market Samurai. It was only a few years ago when I had to do all this research the manual way I go through in the video but thankfully there is an easier solution if you want to use […]
Getting Keywords From a Competitors Site
In this video I finish off compiling the original greeting card keyword list and I also show you a real life greeting card business online and show you a technique I use to get a list of keywords that relate to that site and actually send it traffic.
It may seem a little bit sneaky but what can I say, you need all the advantages you can get when building an online greeting card business.
Online Greeting Card Business Tips – Keywords
Welcome back! In this post I go a little deeper and show you a technique I use to develop a list of keywords that your competing sites are getting ranked for in Google. I know I do go on about keyword research but it is so important when building your online greeting card business or any business for that matter.
This is an Internet marketing strategy but its important I tell you because if you are planning to build your own online greeting card business then you need to know these strategies because I bet your successful […]
Greeting Card Business Start Up Tips
The key to building and operating a successful greeting card business online is doing your market research first and in the following videos I cover one of the most important parts of market research and that is keyword research.
Why is keyword research so important to your greeting card business… If you don’t know what keywords your target market are searching on in the search engines then you can’t determine which keywords to SEO (Search Engine Opitmization) your website for and drive targeted traffic to your greeting card website. This is vital if you want to succeed so I have put […]
Selling Greeting Cards? Then You Need To Build a Web Site
Having a Web Site – How is it Important for a Greeting Card Business?
A web site is not only one way you can start selling greeting cards, but it is also a way that you can start your business storefront or an alternate storefront. Having a web site gives you the ability to show and start selling your greeting cards on a global scale. It also allows you to do business 24 hours a day, seven days a week, without you having to run the storefront. Instead, you can collect orders and payments online and handle shipping […]
Greeting Card Business Tip – Create a System of Habit
“You Can Guarantee Your Success If You Do This One Thing in Your Home Business”
It’s something that just hit me while I was driving and thinking about the best ways to build a greeting card business and I happened to drive past the building where I used to work years ago – that was the place where I had the Boss that sacked me. Bad memories.
Anyway, it got me thinking…
…what is the one thing that differentiates the successful home based greeting card business owners from the people that just seem […]
Starting a greeting card business? How much will it cost?
I get asked this a lot from many greeting card designers and my answer is always…it depends on what medium you want to build your greeting card business in. Starting a greeting card business today is a costly venture if you plan to open a bricks and mortar shop but it can be a lot cheaper if you start in on the Internet.
Now days with the increase in business being done on the Internet it is a no-brainer for me to tell you to start your greeting card business online. It is so much cheaper and less risk and especially […]
Put The Romance Back In Your Life With Romantic Greeting Cards
I’m sure you have someone special in your life, someone you love or want to love. Well there are many ways to spark up some romance in your busy life but the personal touch of romantic greeting cards can really hit the emotional spot your aiming for.
When you’re going to give your loved one romantic greeting cards you must practice the fine art of surprise. Cards like this are most effective when they catch your spouse off guard, then the true appeal of your card can work its magic.
Greeting cards are often pre-made, making it easy for the giver to […]
Wholesale Christmas Cards are often Sold in Bulk
You can purchase wholesale Christmas cards in bulk to go easy on the budget while ensuring that you send holiday greetings to everyone you know. The holiday season usually requires sending out a lot of holiday cards, but with all the other expenses involved in getting ready for the season of cheer, the spending can lead you to feel a season of fear. The best way to feel better about the spending is to start trying to save money and buying in bulk where you can, starting with wholesale greeting cards.
Do it Yourself Greeting Card Printing
Now if you’ve been making greeting cards from home for any time now, you would have tried various methods of greeting card printing and at some stage you’ve probably tried online greeting card printing services as well.
The printing at home method, especially if you’re using an ink jet printer can get very expensive, but there are other solutions for printing greeting cards and one of them is an almost forgotten technique that was developed 25 years ago in Japan by ‘Noboru Hayama’ called ‘Gocco’. Have you ever heard of this? I will explain it in just a moment.
The other method […]
Establishing Your Greeting Card Niche
Help Customers to Know You and Your Product
As part of developing your marketing and advertising plan you should be dedicated to how you will establish your greeting card niche and how to find and define your target customer.
A niche can be described like this; instead of advertising yourself as a greeting card designer why not target a specific niche like dog and cat greeting cards.
You could specialize in these areas and cater for all the dog and cat lovers out there. This means that you will define in your marketing and/or advertising plan how you will marketing or sell to […]