Design Crafters

There are several steps you can take to simplify your system
for sending personal Christmas cards that will reduce your stress to a
minimum.  We all like to receive Christmas cards from our family and friends
- to catch up on news about them and their families, but consider sending them
stressful and expensive. It doesn’t have to be that way and I will try in the
next few paragraphs to give some tips to help you.

First of all, shorten your list. You may feel obligated to send a Christmas card to
everyone you know, but surely there are some you could cut. Are there people
you used to exchange cards with regularly who have dropped you from their list?
Are there people you might actually not even notice or not be offended if you
didn’t send them a card? Also, how about those whom you see fairly frequently
who already know what is going on in your life? Do they really need a card?

Instead of trying to hand write a special note in every card about the family,
type out a Christmas letter and insert it in the Christmas card. That way, you
can actually give them a lot more information than you could handwriting it,
you can then just sign the card, and you will save a lot of time. Everybody
wins in that situation.

Order your Christmas cards early. Besides getting a discount, you can then take your time
and just do a few at a time, address and stamp them and just save them in a
pile until you are ready to send them. If you do want to still scrawl a
personal note on each, it won’t seem like such a chore if you are only doing a
few at a time and your handwriting will look better than if you are trying to
do a lot at once. I hope these tips help.

A couple of days ago I talked about how sending  birthday cards to your clients and your employees can impact your business in several ways. Besides creating good will showing your thoughtfulness, it creates loyalty. It falls in line with the law of reciprocity. "You do something nice to me and I’ll want to do something nice for you."

You get a very similar result with Corporate "Thank You" cards or notes expressing your appreciation for something someone has done. It may be a personal thing they may have done for you, or maybe they just purchased your product or engaged you in service.

You want to thank them for the confidence they have place in you to provide whatever it is that you provide. It’s probably sufficient, if you have the opportunity to vocally thank someone but it is going the extra mile to sit down and write a thank you card expressing your appreciaiton.

Many folks may send an email expressing thanks. That’s pretty common and is a nice gesture which is certainly well received. It took time and thought to do that, but if you really want to have an impact that will be remembered (or even received - I’m talking about spam filters possibly causing your email to maybe even disappear) hand write a note, hand address an envelope and mail a thank you card.

You will be amazed at the impact it will have. So few people take the time to actually write out a thank you card it that it really has a lasting, memorable effect.

It really doesn’t take that long to do, they are inexpensive and you certainly get a return on your investment. You can get any "Thank You" card you could need right here on our site. We offer plain "Thank You" cards as well as "Thank You for Your Businss," "Thanks for Your Referral," and "A Brief Note."