Remember to Write When You’re on the Road
Just because you’re on the road in Shangai and your wife and family are back in Kentucky doesn’t mean you can get away with not sending a card on their birthdays.
One of my biggest beefs with birthday cards, or cards in general, is how expensive they are. At $4 a pop, that starts to add up. Think of all the holidays to send cards for: Christmas, Valentine’s Day, anniverseries, and birthdays. At the minimum you’re looking at four cards per year multiplied by how many people you would normally send cards to. That’s $16 or so per person, per year, at the minimum.
That’s a lot of money. Have twenty family members and friends you keep up with? That’s $320 in cards. Ouch.
A new company, CardsDirect aims to relieve some of that money problem from you. With the company, you can order cards in bulk and save up to 50-70% on what you would pay retail for a card. That’s anywhere from $1.75-2.50 per card in savings! Practically a whole new card! If you used the above amounts of 20 friends, you would only spend around $160 for the same number of cards.
Not only that, but you can add your company logo to it if you are going to send it to a former executive you used to work for. Hey, birthday’s are good for branding, right?
Here’s one of my favorite birthday cards from the site…
