Starting a Greeting Card Business

If someone had told me a few years back that I'd be starting a greeting card business, I would have thought they were crazy! That's when I was trading my time for dollars in a job I truly loved. I was using my gifts and experience and had a sense of satisfaction knowing I was making a difference in many people's lives.

But when that position ended, it was time to make a fresh start by relocating to a new community and beginning a new career. Through that time of transition, I began looking for a home business income opportunity.

I was looking for a business where I could:

• continue to use my gifts and build on my strengths
• make a significant difference in people's lives;
• work with people who shared values that were similar to mine
• have fun
• take advantage of passive income opportunities
• make money for the things that are important to me

I found all of that, and more, by starting a greeting card business, and you can too!

FreshStart Cards

I decided to call my greeting card business FreshStart Cards! That's because I quickly learned that there's no better way to make a fresh start with the important people in our lives (friends, family and business associates) than to build those relationships with real greeting cards, not e-cards.

With FreshStart Cards, it's simple, fun and cost effective!

Here's how starting a greeting card business would work for you. Your customers would:

• Choose from a huge (and continually growing) selection of over 15,000 cards in our online card catalogue OR easily create their own card with their own digital pictures.
  
  
• Type a personal message inside their card, using their own professionally created handwriting font, if they choose.
  
  
• Sign each and every card with their personal signature, customizing all their cards even further.
  
  
• Click send – and the cards are professionally printed, addressed, stamped and mailed (at the post office) the very next day!
  
  
• They can even include a gift card to a popular store or restaurant in their card, or choose from a wide selection of gifts such as gourmet foods, seasonal gifts, and gifts for home, office, men, women, children and more!

The key to building your business is sending out heartfelt cards and teaching others to do the same! Imagine, changing lives, one card at a time!

While it's great to build personal relationships by using cards to express appreciation and keep in touch with friends and family, it's also the most powerful, effective and easiest business-building tool I've ever found.

Provide Excellent Follow-up

In my free mini audio course, Starting a Home-Based Business: Five Keys to a Successful Fresh Start!, I point out that, in any kind of fresh start, providing excellent follow-up is the best way to build trust with prospects, vendors, customers and clients.

By starting a greeting card business, you'll have the opportunity to show countless business owners and service professionals how to build trust with real, personalized greeting cards. As they automate their follow-up, they also stand out from their competition, get more customers and keep the ones they have!

Cards Are Powerful!

There are many reasons why postcards and greeting cards may well be the most effective – and efficient – follow-up method available today. Here are a few of those reasons to consider starting a greeting card business:

• Cards get delivered, opened and read! Contrast that to the fact that emails often don't even get through, let alone read; and voice messages often get ignored.
  
  
• Real greeting cards make people feel good! Who doesn't love to get a card in the mail, especially one with a personal note of thanks, congratulations, or thinking of you?
  
  
• Cards get kept! I can't tell you how many times I've gone into the office or home of someone who has received one of my cards, and that card will be sitting on the desk, hanging on the bulletin board, or (at home), displayed on the refrigerator for all to see.
  
  
• Cards are a tangible reminder of the recipient, and the value of doing business with him or her! I often include a picture of myself in my cards, along with my contact information, so the recipients remember me and can reach me when they're ready.

The Benefits

I could go on and on about all the benefits of starting a greeting card business, but let me point out the top 3:

• You're making a difference in many people's lives as they have the opportunity to reach out in kindness to the people who mean the most to them. You feel good, and so do they!
  
  
• You'll be in a business that provides a product and service (system) that everyone needs, and there is virtually no competition!
  
  
• You'll be rewarded for your efforts with the kind of extra income you need to go for your dreams; and the opportunity to create residual income is the best I've ever seen! By starting a greeting card business, you'll truly be making a living by giving, as you're changing lives, one card at a time!

Try it for FREE! Learn about Starting a Greeting Card Company by taking a complimentary online tour of FreshStart Cards and sending a free card to someone you care about. There's no pressure and no obligation to buy. Who needs to hear from you today?

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