Design Crafters

We have just received our new Business Greeting Cards catalog for 2006 and it contains many new designs and verse choices. As soon as receive the images for the new Corporate Birthday Cards, we will be posting them to our website. In the meantime, we do have the catalogs available and would be more than happy to send you one.

This Business Greetings catalog not only carries "Corporate Birthday" Cards, but also a great selection of "Thank You" Cards, "Anniversary" Cards, "Congratulations" and "Welcome" Cards, as well as "Sympathy" and "Thinking of You" Cards.

Ordered in multiples of 25 you get multiple verse and ink choices - and they can be personalized with your (company) name. If you order an assorted pack, they are pre-printed and cannot be personalized. Of course they are less expensive.

Order any of these items, even personalized and they will ship within 1-2 business days. Please let us know if we can send you a new catalog. Just sent an email to info@designcrafters.com.

We should be getting our new Christmas Card catalogs in very shortly for the 2006 season and when we do, many of those cards wil actually be ready to ship. Can you believe it!

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I often get comments like, "I don’t like writing Thank You cards because I’m not that good with words." "I seem to have writer’s block." "I want to sound sincere but never really know what to say besides, "Thank You’."

Getting a note or a card is such a special gift that you don’t have to say much of anything. Just the fact that you took the time to do it says a lot right there. Write your thank you notes in the same style that you speak. Use contractions. They’re more personal. They’ll make your notes sould more like you.

Just be yourself. It doesn’t have to be a masterpiece. The recipient will be very pleased to get anything from you that basically is saying, "Thanks" for whatever it is that you are thankful for.

As I have alluded to this before, the permanence of a card or letter means so much more than a phone call. Many times recipient of a card or note that was thoughtfully written is saved for who knows how long and even shared with others. It has a tremendous impact.

The same goes for a simple line or two added at the bottom of a birthday card or Christmas card.

If you are not sending out greeting cards like those mentioned in my previous couple of posts (birthday cards, thank you cards, etc.) because you think you don’t have time, let me see if I can persuade you to think differently.

If you order and have cards printed up ahead of time with a verse or message you want to convey, you can have it printed up at that time with your name printed on them and even a company logo if you like. You can even have your return address printed on the back flap of the envelope so all you really have to do to send them out is address them and if you want to add a short personal note, you can do that and add your signature. If you really want to keep it simple, you can even have your signauture printed right inside your birthday card, thank you note or other business greeting card. That goes for Christmas cards as well.

If you plan ahead to try to keep in touch with your clients using business greeting cards, you can have them preprinted with a message that would be generic enough in nature to work for many situatons and that is a quick easy way to keep in touch and it looks like you have gone the extra mile and made an effort to nurture that relationship.

Last week I discussed how important sending birthday cards and thank you cards can be to reinforce relationships. We offer these cards on our site. There are a number of other cards that would be good to keep in your arsenal ready for when you need them as well. We don’t carry these on our site and we don’t offer a catalog on our site for these but they are available and I would like to tell you about them here.

They are Anniversary cards, Congratulations, Get Well, Thinking of You, Sympathy, Welcome, some other Thank You cards as well as some assorted package of either assortments of all of the above or assorted birthday cards.

We do have a catalog available for all of the above and would be happy to send one to anyone who is in need of such items. Sending any or all of the above whenever appropriate cannot help but build rapport and good will with the recipient whether it be a client or employee. Just give us a call at 800-214-8990 or shoot us an email at info@designcrafters.com and we will gladly send you a full color cataloge with all the card, verse and ink color choices, prices, etc.

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."