How to Start Greeting Cards Home Business
By Randy Wilson
Do you like to create pictures and designs, or writing? Do you love to look at
the greeting cards in your local stores? Then a greeting cards home business
could be for you. This is a business with incredible growth, and income
potential. It also gives the greeting card home based business owner several
options in the business itself.
A greeting card home business opportunity can have you doing only one part, such
as drawing or writing. This same business can be selling e-cards or cards sold
in stores. It could also entail purchasing a territory from a larger card distributor.
The first step in how to start a greeting card company is to decide what part of
the greeting card business you want to focus on. As a freelance greeting card
artist, you would focus only on designing cards for other companies. There are
costs associated with this option and could include the purchase of a computer
and graphic art software if you don’t already have these items.
If you decide to be a freelance greeting card writer, your home based greeting
card business would focus on only writing the phrases to be used on greeting
cards. For this, you only need a computer and quick turn around time.
Of course, you can always freelance as both a writer and artist. To get jobs you
must contact companies to see if they are in need of freelancers. They pay from
$50 an assignment to several hundred dollars per assignment. However, until you
build up a portfolio of samples, and sometimes even after, jobs can be hard to find.
Another option is to purchase a vending route from a larger greeting card
company. This route becomes your way of starting a greeting card company. You
are required to keep current clients stocked in cards, replace old cards with
new ones and get new clients to build your income. You have start up costs that
can run from several hundred to several thousand dollars in inventory. However,
when you take the cards to the clients, you receive your payments right then.
If you want to start your own line of cards, your greeting card business plan
would focus on all aspects of greeting card businesses. You will design and
write each greeting card inside and out. Your creative freedom would not be
hindered by someone telling you what they want. You would make all the decisions
and it would truly be your greeting cards business.
Being a greeting cards home business owner would make the internet your best
marketing tool. You wouldn’t be able to compete with larger greeting card
companies, so you will want to create a special niche for your cards on the web
and in small local stores.
This option requires research before beginning the creation of cards for your
greeting cards home business. You will need to price printing services and
software. Once you have these ready, you can being creating. Go ahead a start
creating cards, but at the same time, think of a name for your greeting cards
home business and create a website.
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