Woo hoo!  Today’s the first day of the 30 Days of Faves blog party!  Over the next 30 days I’ll be highlighting my favorite things about SendOutCards.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with SendOutCards, it’s an online service that allows you to create and personalize real greetings cards for as little as $.62 for each card.  This is a real greeting card that is printed and mailed for you with a real stamp.  You can even upload you’re own handwriting font and photos to create truly customized card.

Now my favorite feature of SendOutCards was actually just introduced last Monday, on May 23.  Talk about timing!  :)

In a nutshell, the new feature introduced was new easier and more economical ways to become a SendOutCards customer:

• We now have a “pay as you go” feature.  This allows you to purchase a set amount of points to spend on cards and gifts.  The amount of points you purchase determines the cost.  I’ll be explaining points in more details in another post, but it’s basically the way you pay for cards and gifts.  A post card costs 1 point, a greeting card 2 points, and so son.  The cost of each point is determined by the number of points you buy – the more you buy, the more you save.  So for example, if you buy 10 points, they are $.99 cents each.  A greeting card costs 2 points which means the card would cost $1.98 ($.99 x 2 points).  If you purchased 200 points at $.49, then a greeting card will cost $.98 ($.49 x 2 points).   This is the lowest pay as you go price!
• The second option is a monthly subscription – think of it like Netflix for greeting cards.  Monthly subscriptions start at just $9.80 per month for 20 points, which is enough to send 10 regular greeting cards or 20 regular postcards.
• While there was no fundamental change to our Wholesale Premium Account, this is our most economical way to purchase cards and gifts.  The Wholesale Premium Package allows you to purchase points for $.31 each, so a regular greeting card would cost $.62.  The Wholesale Premium account is an investment of $398 which includes 200 points (to be used within 60 days), 2 handwriting fonts and 8 signatures, the Handwriting Font installer files so you can use your font on your computer and documents, unlimited picture storage to create custom cards, and much more.

These two options of “Pay As You Go” and “Monthly Subscription” have made it so much easier for anyone and everyone to use the system!  As long as you have access to the internet and a credit card (or checking account) you can send cards and gifts through SendOutCards.  There’s no sense in detailing the ways you could have started before the announcement, but suffice it to say this is much more economical and allows more people to use the system.

Now, stay at home moms can use the system (and save time,  money and gas) as compared to buying cards and gifts at the store.  Solo business owners and direct sales consultants can now use the system to keep in touch with their customers and clients easily and inexpensively.  You can choose to send cards and gifts at midnight if you want!

OK, that’s all for today!  Tomorrow I will be highlighting some of the types of cards available in the SendOutCards system. Stay tuned!

P.S.  To learn more about how the points and expense accounts work, please see the blog post:  30 Days of Faves: Points vs. Expense Accounts in SendOutCards.