SendOutCards Adds Books to Their Line Up of Gifts!

SendOutCards just announced that they have added books to their gift line up. This means that you can now include a special book when you send someone a greeting card through your SendOutCards account! The book titles just added are:

• How To Win Friends & Influence People - by Dale Carnegie
• Think and Grow Rich - by Napoleon Hill
• No Excuse! - by Jay Rifenbary
• Success: Defining Moments - by the Publishers of Success Magazine
• The Treasury of Quotes - by Jim Rohn
• The Greatest Salesman in the World - by Og Mandino
• The Science of Getting Rich - by Wallace D. Wattles
• The Magic of Thinking Big - by David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
• The Power of Positive Thinking - by Norman Vincent Peale
• Beach Money - by Jordan Adler

I believe a few more book titles will be added in the near future.

SendOutCards just keeps getting better and better!

For more information, contact:

Kimberly Yow

Gifted Lady Gift Baskets & Greeting Cards

"Helping Businesses Stay In Touch"

Referral Marketing Tips

Do you want all the referrals you can possibly handle? Do you have a system in place to stay in touch with your clients, prospects and business contacts? Do you realize that showing these people that you appreciate them and care about them is the best way to earn their friendship, their trust and their referrals?

Here are just a few ways you can use SendOutCards to personally stay in touch with those that are important to you and your business:

1) Use SendOutCards to send an unexpected, personalized card in your own handwriting font.

2) Send a personalized card AND a small gift of cookies, caramels, brownies, nuts, etc...

3) Send a personalized card AND a gift card to a major retailer or restaurant.

4) Send a birthday card to let them know you remembered them.

Referral marketing is all about staying in touch. So why not make someone's day and send a card their way?

For more information, contact:

Kimberly Yow
Gifted Lady Gift Baskets & Greeting Cards

A Priceless Birthday Card Sent to My Step-Mother

I just wanted to share with you this email that I received from my dad (who lives out-of-state). He is referring to a birthday card that I sent to my step-mother.

"Mary was very pleased with the card you sent. She read it to me...the next day I noticed she had put it next to my chair for me to see. I'm glad you two get along so well, you are both very important to me. It makes my life so much better than if you guys didn't like each other. She even took it to work to show the other women she works with. Most of them said they sure didn't have the same kind of relationship with theirs. So it made a BIG hit over here. Thanks for being YOU. - Love Dad"

I sent the card through my SendOutCards account. The outside of the card had a graphic of Cinderella and it said "I'm Not Cinderella". On the inside the card said, "...because you're no evil step-mother". I added, in my own handwriting font, "You're the best step-mom anyone could ever have". I feel very fortunate to have a step-mom that I feel this way about...and to have had her in my life for over 30 years! Reading my dad's email brought tears to my eyes when I realized how much a simple & funny birthday card had meant to my step-mom. It only cost $1.03 and a little bit of my time...but the IMPACT WAS PRICELESS!!!

So I urge you, act on that prompting and...Make Someone's Day...Send a Card Their Way!

Sincerely,
Kimberly Yow

Gifted Lady
GiftedLadyGreetingCards.com

View SendOutCards Real Greeting Cards Here

A sampling of greeting cards available through the SendOutCards greeting card service. Cards are a great value at $.62 + postage! See my website, www.GiftedLadyGreetingCards.com or contact me at 800-836-9322 to learn how you can have these cards "stamped & mailed" for you with the click of a button:

SendOutCards Tip: How To Save a Card for Mass Mailing or Repeat Use!

Did you know that you can create a card in the SendOutCards system and then save it? All you have to do is go to "Manage Campaigns", click "Add New Card", then select your card...customize it...and save it.

You can then send this card as many times as you want. I use this feature for a standard birthday card, calendar card or a "thank you for your order" card. You can also send your campaign card to numerous people at the same time. This would come in handy when sending holiday cards, thank you cards after a special event, "we've moved" cards, "just listed/sold" cards, grand opening cards and many others!

When you are ready to send your campaign card, go to your Contact Manager, select the contacts you wish to send the card to, select the name of the campaign (upper left corner of your screen) and then click the gray button that says "Send Campaign To Checked". You're done! You've just sent your card to 1 or hundreds of people at the same time.

This feature of the Send Out Cards system is a great time saver and well worth the few minutes it takes to master it!

Happy card sending!
Kimberly
SendOutCards Independent Consultant

SendOutCards Gets "Best Home Business Opportunity" Award for 2007!

News found on the internet:

Send Out Cards gets our 5 Star “Best Home Business Opportunity” Award for being the best all around home business for 2007. After reviewing hundreds of home business opportunities our research team has carefully chosen SendOutCards for this prestigious award based on 12 important criteria.

1. The opportunity has a low entry fee to get started. ****

2. The company has a squeaky clean reputation. *****

3. The product is in high demand by business owners. *****

4. There is a high success rate for distributors. ****

5. It has a simple marketing program that is easy to implement. *****

6. There is excellent training and follow up support for new distributors. *****

7. It does not require a high skill level to be successful. *****

8. The nature of the product is unique, with little competition. *****

9. The company is in its beginning growth phase. ****

10. The management team is experienced. *****

11. The company is financially strong. *****

12. The compensation plan is extremely generous. ****

Overall Home Business Opportunity Assessment *****

Send Out Cards is a greeting card business that consists of a web-based system for creating and automatically sending custom greeting cards. Small business owners and independent professionals such as realtors, insurance agents, and sales professionals are particularly attracted to the Send Out Cards system because of it’s ability to automate the follow up marketing and relationship building required by professionals to be successful.

The SendOutCards business opportunity has a relatively low entry fee to get started and a very clean reputation with the FTC and it's members. The product itself is unique and has no competition. The company demonstrated that it has good training and follow up support and an experienced management team.

Send Out Cards has passed it's initial start up phase and is now in its early growth phase, which makes it a good time to join. The company is financially stable and has a good compensation plan that includes a long term residual income component.

Because of its' reputation, support, uniqueness and stability, ScamAlert.com has awarded Send Out Cards its 2007 Business Opportunity of the Year Award.

SendOutCards™ Will Save You Time & Money and Increase Your Business Referrals

Why You'll Save Time, Save Money & Increase Your Referrals with SendOutCards™...

Gifted Lady's SendOutCards™ System is Not an e-card!!

It's a 'real' greeting card! And a great system for maintaining personal contact with clients, etc...

Here are just some of the reasons why:

• You customize online (it's quick & easy)
• The service prints, stuffs & mails for you (you save time)!
• Add your own photos, logo, scanned business card, just about any image, etc... (create highly personalized cards)
• Type in your own handwriting font (it's really cool...)
• Add your own signature (how's that for personalized?)
• Include gift cards from Starbucks, Home Depot, Barnes & Noble, etc... (quick & easy way to send a gift and a greeting card at the same time)
• Includes a birthday reminder function (never forget another birthday)
• Includes a marketing campaign feature (automate your marketing and customer service communication by setting up weeks or months in advance)
• And so much more!

The SendOutCards™ online service is a very powerful, effective system that will help you increase your referrals by keeping you personally connected with prospects and clients. It's also great for personal use!

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SendOutCards™ Greeting Cards Have Gone Green!

SendOutCards™ has gone green! All of their cards are now printed on premium recycled paper.

Send Out Cards™ is an online service that allows you to customize a real greeting card or post card online...click "Send Card"...and then rest assured that your card will be "printed" and "mailed via the US Postal Service" by SendOutCards™.

That's right...these are real greeting cards...NOT e-cards.

Make someone's day, send a greeting card their way!

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Build Your Business By Sending Personalized Greeting Cards

In order for someone to do business with you they need to know you, like you and trust you from a business perspective. Below I am going to share with you numerous ways to speed up the 'like you' aspect through the use of greeting cards.

For starters, when was the last time you got a greeting card from someone that you purchased products or services from? Most of you will answer 'NEVER' and some of you may even be laughing at this point! Which brings me to my point; most people are over looking this simple, very inexpensive means of marketing their business and staying in touch with prospects and clients on a regular basis.

I remember years ago when I received a birthday card from my car insurance agent. I was absolutely amazed and it made me feel good. Good and bad that is. Bad, because it was the only birthday card I received that year. Good, because this guy took the time to 'remember' and 'mail' me a card on my special day. Receiving that card (and subsequent birthday cards) really made an impression on me and made me all the more willing to continue doing business with this particular insurance agent for many years. And, I told others about his card sending habit and passed on his contact information many times.

You can send greeting cards to your business contacts for many reasons, not just birthdays. Receiving greeting cards will make your prospects and clients feel good. They will know you remember them and they in turn will feel good about you or 'like you'. And remember, 'liking you' is one of the requirements before someone will do business with you or refer others to you. Below are numerous ideas on how you can effectively integrate greeting cards into your customer service and marketing programs and speed up the 'like you' process.

You can use a personalized card to 'Thank' someone for:

• A referral that they gave you

• Their order or their business in general

• Taking the time to meet with you

How about a card 'Congratulating' a prospect or client on:

• Receiving a promotion

• Winning a large contract for their company

• Getting married or having a new baby

• Moving into a new home

• Receiving a degree they've worked long and hard for

• Landing a new job

I sent a greeting card to a local business person that I had only spoken to once. It was congratulating her on her new job with our local newspaper. She called me out of the clear blue to ask questions about my business and to thank me for the card. She said it was on her desk for everyone to see and that it was the only card she received congratulating her on her new job. The card made her feel great and her reaction made me thankful that I had taken the time to reach out to her. We now talk and network on a frequent basis. Wow!

Make someone feel good by sending a card that says:

• Happy Home Anniversary (this works great for anyone that provides a product or service to home owners)

• Happy Business Anniversary (anniversary of your first business deal with them)

• Happy Wedding Anniversary (this will definitely get their attention and probably be one of the few cards...or the only card...they receive)

Make an impact with 'Birthday' cards by sending them to:

• Your customer, their spouse AND their children (they'll remember that you remembered them and their family)

• Business and networking contacts

Send an 'I Enjoyed Meeting You' card:

• After meeting someone for the first time at a chamber mixer or networking event

• After doing a presentation for someone

• After meeting someone on an airplane that could be a good business contact

Use personalized greeting cards to 'Announce':

• A sale, promo or special offer

• A special event or open house

• A milestone business anniversary

• A new product or service

• A move and your new address

Greeting cards that give you a lot of mileage include:

• Photo greeting cards (people will keep a card with a meaningful photo longer than they will a traditional card)

• Calendar greeting cards (just about everyone can use an extra calendar for their desk, purse, refrigerator, car, day timer, etc...)

• Cards with a little something extra like a gift card to Starbucks or a book store

As you can see, there are many reasons to send greeting cards. Use this list to spark your own creativity and start integrating personalized greeting cards into your customer service and marketing efforts. You will be amazed at the positive impact it will have on your incoming referrals, your business network, your bottom line and you personally.

Kimberly Yow is the owner of Gifted Lady Gift Baskets & More. She sends ‘PRINTED’ greeting cards and greeting card campaigns as a way of staying in touch with prospects and clients, showing her appreciation for their business and expanding her network. You can learn more about the online client retention system that Kimberly uses and/or get a Free Trial Account to test out the system by visiting Mail A Greeting Card.