An Unexpected Card
Imagine you cleaned out your mailbox. You carry the load of bills, unsolicited credit card offers, advertisement magazines and carpet cleaning offers to the counter next to your trash can. You start throwing out everything except the dreaded bills and magazines you ordered through your child’s school fundraiser.
As you are going through the stack, an envelope addressed to you catches your eye. It is not a bill. You place it in a special pile. You open the envelope addressed to you with a friend’s return address. It is a greeting card telling you how much they miss seeing you and asking to get together again soon. A smile crosses your face, and you have a warm feeling. For the rest of the day, you catch yourself smiling when you think about the card. It made your day.
Has it ever happened to you? Of course, it has!
A week before your birthday, you’re at the mailbox as soon as you come home or as soon as the mailman makes his rounds. Don’t tell me you are out there looking for your cell phone bill. You want to see if anyone has sent you a birthday card. During the holiday season, you always look forward to reading Christmas Cards. Face it, you love it when you receive a card. So how many cards have you sent to your friends, family or clients in the last six months?
If you are in business, how advantageous would it be for you each day to send a card to a past client for no reason other than to stay in touch with them? We all want our clients to remember us. What are we doing to make sure they remember us or more importantly refer us to their friends? If you had a system that you could invest 15 minutes a day into staying in contact with your client base, how much additional business would it generate for you?
In the past 12 months, I have sent over 1200 individual greeting cards to friends in business and my personal life. That is 100 cards a month or a little over three a day if you include weekends. Often the card will have a picture on it of the person, their house, their children, prized car, boat or beloved pet. The cards are in my handwriting with my signature and they go through the mail.
The best part about it is I am able send these cards from my computer for as low as $0.62 per card plus postage and it takes just a few minutes to find the card, write a personal note and have it ready to be printed, stuffed in an envelope, stamped and taken to the post office for delivery.
Think about all the times you received a prompt to send someone a card. There are so many times we could be sending cards to our friends and associates. Aside from birthdays, anniversaries, holiday or invitations, we need to stay in contact with people just to let them know we care about them and their life. We know we should be touching lives, now lets start doing it!
We have many reasons for not sending cards. First on the list is you do not have the card and don’t have the time to go to the store and look for one. Even if you had a card, how many times do you have to rummage around to find a stamp that is the current value to send the card?
Now with a few clicks of your mouse you can send an unexpected card to someone in your life and have them thinking about you and your card for a long time. To show you how simple it is to send a card. > Click here
I have set up a gift account for you to try this system. You will need to enter your name, address, phone number and e-mail address. The address you enter will be the return address on the cards you send. Go ahead, send a card to someone you want to know you card about them. Try the system and see how easy it is to stay in contact with the people who mean the most to you.
