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Headline: Happy Holidays... From My PC --- Greeting-Card Companies Add Personalized Features To Computer-Generated Cards
Byline: By Jessica E. Vascellaro
Date: Tuesday, November 22nd 2005 KYLE SHELDON-CHANDLER doesn't typically send holiday cards since buying, writing and addressing them gives her a headache. But this year she's found a way to mail cards to family and friends without picking up a pen. The 51-year-old from Grand Junction, Colo., will outsource most of the task to Send Out Cards LLC, a Salt Lake City- based company that allows you to write and mail paper greeting cards to everyone on your list through technology over the Web. This season, several greeting-card companies are trying to fight the perception that a paper card that is signed, sealed, and delivered from the Web is less personal than a handwritten one. They say they've got the best of both worlds — the convenience of the Internet without the impersonalization often associated with email greeting cards. |
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Dec. 5, 2005
Online Holiday Cards Mean No Licking Envelopes
For between $1 and $3 a card, plus postage, some even offer personal touches. For an extra fee, sendoutcards.com will create a font of your handwriting and add your signature. Even the U.S. Postal Service is getting in on the act with NetPost, which allows you to add photos to your cards. These companies hope the trip to the stationary store will soon be a thing of the past, and that you'll want to pay to have someone else spend the time and energy on your holiday cards.
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How to Get All the Referrals You Can Handle Using Automated Follow-Up Marketing January/February 2005
By David Frey ... Have you ever wanted to send a card to someone but forget to do it or you simply didn't have time to do it? Have you ever wanted to send a series of follow-up notes to a business prospect or customer, but didn't have a system to keep track of who to send it to and when? The www.sendoutcards.com system solves those problems by offering a custom referral greeting card template that is used in the 12-step referral card mailing campaign. |
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Dec. 14, 2005 You can order online for these customized greeting cards Kody Bateman boasts that in little more than two years, SendOutCards.com has grown from a long-delayed dream into a designer, seller and shipper of more than 6,000 greeting cards per day. And beyond his bustling printing plant and warehouse in east Salt Lake City, Bateman can tally a national direct-sales network of customer-representatives expected to near 7,000 by year's end. "All of a sudden, we're busting at the seams. A year from now we will be 10 times larger than today, easy," he says. |
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