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 [...]
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 [...]
I Dream of Jeannie, er, 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 [...]
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 [...]
"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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Help Customers to Know You and Your ProductAs 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 [...]
One thing you can do when you start a greeting card business is to market your business as well as sell greeting cards is to have a booth at craft shows and fairs. Craft fairs are a fun and popular way for people to view your greeting cards and it is a creative outlet for you to use in marketing [...]
The quickest ways to start selling your greeting cards is to go to a craft fair, hold an open house, rent a kiosk or build a website. However, one single method may not get you going as quickly as using more than one method at the same time. Craft Fairs or Trade Shows A craft fair or trade show is [...]
