greeting cards

mollycat1

I want to market some greeting cards that i have designed. Has anybody got any experience and/or advice to offer me!!! Also do i approach a distributor or try and market them myself i.e. approach shops etc.,

one_two

Hi!
I like greeting cards without any message inside! Becouse 1) I want to write message myself and I don't need standard cliche 2) my relatives don't undestand english. There is very litte choice of this kind of cards. Two niches - foreigners and those who has ideas.

frobisher

You left out the one type of card that I always go for. It's hard to explaina but I'd kind of regard it as modern, humurous and with a twist.

mollycat1

Hiya

I think i know the type of card you're talking about. In fact one of the ranges that i've designed would come under that category. Thanks for your feedback!!!

Sonnenblumen

one_two wrote:

Hi!
I like greeting cards without any message inside! Becouse 1) I want to write message myself and I don't need standard cliche 2) my relatives don't undestand english. There is very litte choice of this kind of cards. Two niches - foreigners and those who has ideas.

A lttle imagination goes a long way, not to mention people who do not or cannot write:D But seriously we had greeting cards specially designed with our own greeting last year. We had fabulous designs produced by a very talented Cork based designer/illustrator and the reaction has been well worthwhile. So there is also a corporate dimension(need) which most likely will require some copy.

What form of repro you intend using will bear heavily on your costings (unless of course yo're an artisan and make hand pressed cards. Some great examples around especially in Germany.

Good luck anyways.

DerekMoy37

Just saw your post there, we've always looking for good ideas from designers for our greeting cards site, particularly Christmas. http://www.greetingcardscafe.com