Let People Know How You Feel...Send Greeting Cards!

Do you send greeting cards to friends, family, or people who have done a good deed for you...or do you just think about sending them? We believe people should know how you feel all the time, whether they're a customer, a family member, a friend, or just someone who went the extra mile for you at a place of business. Why wait until you lose someone to send a card? Why not let the people in your life know how you feel while they're still here?

Have you lost loved ones and wondered if you let them know often enough while they were with you that you cared about them? Have you lost touch with friends because you they moved or you just got too busy to keep in touch? I know I have...on all counts. It doesn't have to be that way!

How cool would it be to send a "Just Thinking of You" or "You're the Best Mom" type of greeting cards once in a while? Or how about if it's only those once-a-year holiday cards that you love to send but just don't have the time. (And if you're like me, you would rather not send them at all than to send the standard store-bought cards with just your name in them). What if we can show you a way to make them personal without having to spend a ton of time doing it? We can...and I LOVE using this system because of it!

My son and I, in our quest to raise funds for breast cancer, were introduced to a greeting card company that we found to be amazing. After speaking with the company owner about why and how his company was founded and what his ultimate goals were, we just KNEW that we could incorporate it into what we're doing. And so Greeting Cards For A Cure™ was born.

So now that we're here, what are we going to do? Our goal is to turn everyone we can into consistent card senders (something we just recently began doing ourselves), while generating funds for Breast Cancer Research. We've personally experienced and seen the power that a simple card in someone's mailbox can have. We've heard stories from countless other people about the difference they've made in someone's life with just a simple message in a card.

How can you become a part of our card sending family? Just go to Personal Greeting Cards For A Cure to get more details about the actual system, then start sending greeting cards! It's going to make YOU feel great...it will definitely make someone ELSE feel even better...AND you will automatically be contributing funds for the cure without doing anything other than sending a card to someone!

Looking for a reason to send cards...how about a few of these?

* Announce upcoming events

* Increase referrals

* Brighten up someone's day

* Create repeat customers

* Build your childs self-esteem

* Thank clients

* Provide encouragement

* Send out mass announcements that are personalized

* Birthdays and Anniversaries

* ...LOTS of reasons!

I can give you an entire list of reasons for why you can't send greeting cards...I have my own list of excuses and reasons that I used for years. But now with Greeting Cards For A Cure, I can give you (and me) just as many reasons why you CAN send greeting cards! (Aside from the reasons you "should" send greeting cards or thank you notes...like teaching your kids that it's polite to say thank you for gifts people send or favors that people do for them) :).

My best "excuse" I always gave to myself and others was that, as a single parent who was always on the go with work, school and my son’s activities, spending time driving to the store, searching for the “perfect” card, writing a note in it, then chasing down stamps and a mailbox to get it sent...well, let’s just say that it was on the bottom of my “To Do” list. It’s not that I didn’t want to keep in touch. I still have several boxes of cards that I picked up on the rare occasions that I had time to shop for them. I spent a small fortune and had every intention of sending them to my friends and family members. The last set I bought is still in a drawer...and I bought them about 8 years ago.

My guess would be that my friends and family had simply “adjusted” to the fact that they never heard from me or my son. They just expected that there wouldn't be birthday cards, anniversary cards, or graduation cards showing up in their mailbox. And holidays would go by without ever hearing from us unless we took the time to pick up the phone and say hello. It’s very frustrating to have the intention of keeping in touch with people and then watch them gradually stop calling and writing as they start believing that you just don’t care enough to keep in touch.

While there are many people in my personal life that I thought about regularly and lost touch with, there are even more in my business life that I met at an event somewhere and really wanted to stay in touch with but then didn’t. I decided last year that it was time to change that. I just wasn’t sure how I was going to make it happen and fit it into my schedule. How do I find time to send cards that are personal, without taking up a lot of extra time? I asked around to see how other people manage it...and I found they most of them were asking the exact same question.

Raising Funds For Breast Cancer Research Using Greeting Cards

Early this year, we figured out how we were going to do it. We found a greeting card service that fit perfectly into our business plan of providing a quality product and service that would assist people in their personal and/or business lives, while generating profits that make it possible to give back to breast cancer research. You can get more information here.

Now instead of having to remember, make a note, drive through traffic, and stand in line at the store, we can go online 24 hours a day, pick a greeting card for any occasion, type in a note (in our own handwriting even), add a photo or two, a gift card or check if we want, and click send. You can even put a family photo on the front of the card and send it with your "Here's how our year went" not inside...it's awesome!

And the best part about it...it's simple and takes less than a minute! That's why we added to our product line. Be sure to request your FREE Gift Account if you send cards to ANYONE in your life! Test it out...you'll love it. An we have NO doubt that once you actually SEE what it does and how simple it is (or the first time someone you sent a card to calls you in tears because they were so happy to get it), that you'll become an avid card sending fool just like us!

The great thing about having a greeting card "addiction" though, is that your friends and family will love you for it, as will customers, clients, and even strangers on the street! (we take pictures of people who give us great customer service or are very friendly when we're out...how sad it is that they're not as plentiful nowadays...and then we send a birthday card to them, and/or a testimonial to their boss to say how great they were. It's SO COOL!

Life should be enjoyed while we're here and people should know that there are folks out there who still care. Wanna become one of us? :)