Modern Greeting Cards

I have started my own business and I plan to open my website and start selling my wonderful handmade and designed cards by myself within the next 6 months to 1 year when I have enough designs and cards handmade. (Very modern, stylish, and vector ) Any ideas on the best way to approaches doing this? Whats the best way of contacting the companies/stores? Thank you. :]

Offer them a deal that no other card manufacturer would offer. Give them your first 10 cards and tell the store that they can keep 90% of the proceeds. Every other card manufacturer charges 80% of the retail cost of the card. The store makes 20% (gross). Selling your cards will make the stores 90% profit.
If the 10 cards sell quickly, the store will enter into a long-term contract to buy cards from you. You lost money on 10 but you will get "discovered".
Go in person to each store.

2009-10-17 17:53:18 by roxysoftball06

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Is Diwali becoming over-commercialised with every passing year? Are age-old traditions making way for modern practices like greeting cards, gambling, etc.? Or are we too steeped in tradition to realise that change is inevitable?
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Each festivity has some definite base in the religious and socio-culture beliefs of the community. The greatest, oldest and widely celebrated festival of India, the Diwali (shortened version of DEEPAWALI, meaning arrays of lights), had its origin in the celebrations following victorious return of Shri Ram to Ayodhya after 14 years in exile. The symbol of great reverence Shri Ram was so adored by the people of Ayodhya that their joy knew no bounds at the news of Shri Ram setting his feet back to the land. It was a perfect occasion for a befitting gaiety with pomp, to remind the evil forces – present or the posterity – of inevitable destruction at the hands of the good, sooner than later. As the celebration marked victory of virtue over vile, the occasion took the shape of religious touch and was soon incorporated in the annual rituals.

As with other celebrations, people tend to forgive and forget, in terms of religious preaching, all bitterness, enmity, differences, and malice, to widen the scope and magnitude of revelry. To add to the spirit, some material inputs are brought into play, to compliment the occasion and to make it memorable. Everything NEW is brought to mark the great occasion – be it personal new looks, new apparels / appliances, new look for the household and its surroundings or the new dimensions to the new / existing relations – new pattern of behaviour or belief is reserved for the occasion to take new turn promising better hope for the future. New people are brought into the fold to enlarge the aggregate fervour. Therefore, in reality, we see, people adapting to changes in the environment, and incorporating it in the festivity, wherever need arises, to make it updated / upgraded with time.

So, what we find today is the latest version of DEEPAWALI, that we had one, as above-mentioned, some thousands of generation back. Nothing has changed since then. The spirit remains the same, the practice remains the same, and the GAIETY is the one, most sought after. New clothes, new acquisitions, new looks, redeeming relations, community-brotherhood, prayer to GODDESS of WEALTH & PROSPERITY to shower her eternal bliss on the mortals on even greater scale, to fill every corner of the land with prosperity and happiness, the ultimate in this materialistic world – everything remains the same.

But alas, it is not to be so. The great and widening difference is, in the quality of spirit. There is nothing denying the fact that the means and access, of people then and now, has undergone sea changes. The family that filled the entire village is now scattered as hundreds of nuclear families, in the length and breadth of this country, and abroad too. The source of livelihood then was agriculture, forest products, animal husbandry and personal avocations. Today, the source of one’s survival is mostly “Service” of ever-unfolding description, in tandem with social necessity, which has widened the gap between consanguines. The Mother Nature, which used to take care of everyone’s needs, is fast being replaced by artificial ‘scientifically-discovered’ alternatives, which brings more misery than satisfying needs.

So, given the above backdrop, the Diwali has got to be celebrated after all, year after year, and this year being no exception, it has sought to be celebrated retaining essential traditional flavour.

But, I am at a loss, how would one reconcile with the social and relational ‘gap’ factor, which is more, of material mentally, then physical. Secondly, the commercial world, ever-ready to exploit your needs by increasingly intruding in our personal lives and offering us their care and wares, at a price, and reducing us to the level of virtually non-functioning, has stole the cream of all revelry. So the market culture has, at last, set in to shape your ideas and plans, to suit your taste and pocket. We have yielded to the lure of commercialisation, forgetting that the true happiness and creativity lies in the pains of labour. If such over-commercialisation has bereft us of natural rejoices, that could have come as a result of all pains of month-long preparations, as the earlier generations used to do, where it will lead us to tomorrow, is anybody’s guess.

Talking about negative activities, like gambling, betting, drinking, partying etc., these are associated with mental make-up, and not strictly has anything to do with the festivity of Diwali, specifically. It is simply, a way of one’s own way of enjoying or destroying oneself, which is more of a habitual compulsion then choice. Their presence can never dampen the spirit of DIWALI, of we ordinary mortals, because their area of activities are mostly in isolation.

It is therefore a multi-dimensional mind-boggling problem of equibalancing the traditionality with the modernity, to commerciality, to negativity, to inevitability, to….the list is endless.

If you need to celebrate it in the spirit of material rituality, you have advices galore in these columns, by now. The choice is yours. That is, lighting, Diyas, sweets, new clothes, Pujan, family / social get-together, pleasantries, good-wishes, fireworks, visits to elderly, their blessings (ashirvads), new commitments, entertainments, rejoices, all-funs and merry-making etc. But for all its labour, it would all seem superficial. Why? Because the very soul is missing. Missing? Why ? Because, from its original form and magnitude it has gone on changing its elements, size and character over the generation. And no help can rejuvenate it to its glorious past. So, we should be rest content with the form we presently have. Have it in full, and share it with near and dear ones in full measure. Take lessons from the past, live in the present with an eye on the future. Only then we can have a proper balance between the tradition and the inevitable change.

Wishing all the best for the grand occasion.

2007-10-21 21:21:02 by smarter than you

Price: $25.00 $16.14

Made in the USA
Total of 12 single design note cards with 12 white envelopes
Designed by Trish DeMasi, exclusively for Fabulous Stationery

I'm looking for a photographer in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and all the portfolios I'm seeing have the same cheesy greeting card fodder in them. You know, the bride looking out a window, putting on her makeup, soft fuzzy filters, sepia tones, walking hand in hand through a grove of trees...BLACCHHH! I'm looking for something modern, very artisitic, real, minimal. Anyone have any recommendations? And if not, how about any photogs websites that have this style??

Look at the technical aspects of the BLACCHH! photographers work. They advertise what most people want. It doesn't mean they can't capture what you want. If you meet with them and explain your vision, you might be surprised how much many of them hate putting out the same cookie cutter shots all the time. But like any other business, you've got to have a large customer base to stay in business. The majority of their customers want the schmaltsy stuff. It doesn't mean that a good photographer can't deliver what you've asked him to.

2007-01-30 16:36:55 by Mishi

Price: $25.00 $15.24

Four fabulous birds provide a great way to send a message
Note cards are 6 1/4 x 4 1/2 Inches when folded, blank inside, packaged in a box
Designed by Trish DeMasi, exclusively for Fabulous Stationery

Or is it just like Valentine's Day? Where basically its just something that candy and greeting card makers cooked up?

to anyone following the Celtic traditions it has meaning

2007-10-31 08:50:16 by "Kh a a a a a n n" ! !

I don't know what to write on my managers christmas card. It already has a greeting printed on it, but I wanted to personalize it a bit more. But I have no idea what to write. Me and her get along fine, and she is a nice person. I want to write something modern, short...but professional at the same time..."seasons greetings" and "merry christmas" are a little old school, so I wanted something more modern.

How about "Thank you for everything you do for us" See, you give her the credit and look appreciative in the meantime.

2009-12-11 12:18:23 by Anita <3