My husband and I recently started a new business, and we thought it would be a great way to advertise this year by sending out our first corporate Christmas cards. We knew we needed professional looking Christmas cards and at a good value. We also wanted Christmas cards that would reflect our new business. We looked through many catalogues, stopped at several greeting cards stores, and searched the Internet looking for the perfect Business Holiday Cards. Since this was going to be our first official holiday greetings, the corporate Christmas cards and the sentiment inside had to be just right.

Lucky for us, we discovered The Gallery Collection. We thought the Christmas cards on the website were beautiful, and the fact that we had several choices for the imprinted greeting really pleased us. But what really made us happy was how perfect the Christmas cards we chose suited our new business. We selected the Sparkle Bear Greetings Holiday Card design and yes, you guessed it, we are in the business of selling teddy bears. How perfect was this?!? We found a professional Christmas card design that was also adorable. This was like getting your first Christmas gift.

This corporate Christmas card design perfectly captures the essence of our business – whimsical and fun. We are certainly glad we found The Gallery Collection and look forward to ordering our business Christmas cards from them again next year. Have a Very Beary Christmas!

Design 149CW, Golden Snowscape Holiday Card, is one of my favorite business holiday cards introduced into The Gallery Collection line this year. It is a photograph of a lake with the sun, low in the sky but glowing brilliantly. The surrounding trees and foliage are reflected in the water. The golden sparkle effects enhance the warm earth tones of brown, gold and rust, while the snow covered banks and branches add the winter touches that celebrate Christmas. The deep brown border and simple “Season’s Greetings” sentiment allows you to send this holiday card to friends and family or to use as your business Christmas cards.

And FYI, this photograph was the winner of The Gallery Collection’s 1st annual Create-A-Greeting-Card $10,000 Scholarship Contest. It was submitted by Elizabeth Digre, a junior at the University of Southern Maine.

Design #149CW - Golden Snowscape Holiday Card

I know what you’re thinking about design 864CX, Red Berry Greetings Holiday Card – when did black become a Christmas color? Who would send black holiday cards? Red, green, and white are the typically holiday colors. Trees, candy canes, ornaments, snowmen, and snow flakes are the common reminders of the holiday season. But if you’re looking for a business holiday card to put you a step above your competition, this is the one for you!

Just take a good look at this gorgeous card! It is such a simple design yet the classic gold foil and red berries make it so elegant! This card is rich with texture. You can feel how the branches are imprinted into the black matte paper. Without seeing the card in front of you, you probably can’t see the detail on the bottom right, but the ground where the berry branches are growing is actually raised! The red berries are embossed and add such flavor to the design.

Design #864CX - Red Berry Greetings Holiday Card

Don’t forget, you choose the greeting that appears inside your holiday cards. It will be printed in gold foil. Centered below the greeting, we offer two lines of personalization at no extra charge. How chic and sophisticated your company name will look!

This beautiful card will leave a lasting impression with your friends and clients. They will remember how thoughtful you were for taking the time to select a design with such timeless class and elegance. Sending this card has a two-fold purpose: one, to send well wishing holiday greetings and two, to keep your name in their minds!

I have my own personal business, and each year I like to take advantage of the great pre-season discounts offered by The Gallery Collection, the leading business holiday cards publisher in the nation, from whom I order my holiday cards each year and send out to my loyal customers. I asked for two free samples again this year. The first one, design #167CW, Chickadee Greetings Holiday Card, features a picture of a little chickadee on the front while the other design, #156CS, Snowflurry Greetings Holiday Card, is one of those die-cut holiday greeting cards that allows a company name to show through from the inside printing. Both are so beautiful that I don’t know which one to order.

Design #167CW - Chickadee Greetings
Holiday Card

The one with the chickadee is a white card that is glossy, with rich foil and sparkling silver foil on the snow-covered tree limb on which the bird is perched. The die-cut holiday card, also white and glossy, features silver embossed foil in the shape of a snowflake with royal blue accenting underneath. I like the idea of having my company name appearing on the front, so-to-speak, while the card is closed, but I also just love the clarity and colors on the other chickadee design.

Design #156CS - Snowflurry Greetings
Die-Cut Holiday Card

So, will it be the more traditional business holiday card or the die-cut holiday card? I guess I’ll have to make up my mind eventually, but thankfully I have some time to ponder before the discount drops.

This was my first year as a small business owner and I was searching for a way to reach out to my customers during the holiday season. More specifically, I was looking for an inexpensive way to express my gratitude towards 150 of my clients. This presented a major challenge for me. While there are an infinite number of gift ideas, I needed to maintain a budget of about $275 or less.

Exhausted from brainstorming gift ideas, I decided to take a break by looking through my mail. All of a sudden I saw something that caught my attention…it was a catalog which advertised business holiday cards. Bingo! This was it. I could reach out to my clients by creating custom Christmas cards. I immediately turned to the pricing guide and saw that I could order enough holiday cards and stay within my budget. So I went through the catalog, picked out my card, and submitted my order.

It wasn’t even two full weeks when I received my corporate Christmas cards. I was very impressed at the quality of the cards and the speed at which I received my custom order.  And the cards seemed to have left the same quality impression on my clients. I received several phone calls commenting on the thoughtfulness of the holiday cards. I even received a few people who asked me where I ordered the cards from, as they wanted to reach out to some of their more important clients before the holiday season was over.

When a company that makes games needs to spread a little timely cheer, they look for business holiday cards that will deliver more than just a message. Ignition Entertainment’s video game publishing studio in Gainesville, Florida chose a dazzling Gallery Collection die-cut holiday card to feature their company name and send as a gift to their press and media friends this holiday season.

Included as a bonus to the beautiful Season’s Greetings holiday card was a desk calendar featuring art from the video game Blue Dragon Plus. It’s always nice to receive a holiday gift, and one that’s aesthetic and practical is doubly welcome. Media contacts and other recipients of this holiday package will be sure to remember Ignition Entertainment in the coming months.

So always think of your clients and vendors when selecting and sending business holiday cards, and spend some time pondering over what small gift they would appreciate. It will make a difference to the person on the other end. A warm gesture is always welcome and will truly endear yourself to your receiver.

The popularity of sending business holiday cards is increasing in leaps and bounds as more companies begin to realize the real value of doing so. Working for The Gallery Collection has taught me a few things, among them being the importance of remembering all the people in our lives during the holidays. What might seem like a small gesture can be quite meaningful to the person who receives a business holiday card.

Case in point is my mom, who called me one fine day in mid-December of last year, elated that her doctors had sent her Christmas cards (and beautiful ones at that!) She described one of the Christmas cards in detail, oohing and aahing over the lovely winter scenes card complete with snow-covered evergreens and personalized in elegant gold foil. She couldn’t wait to show the Christmas cards to me.

That Thursday night I joined her for dinner as I usually did once a week. She loves the thin-crust pizza that I always order for us, since they never serve it at her assisted living facility. She always complains about the food there, but that’s another story. Anyway, as soon as I walked in she said “Before we eat, I have to show you the wonderful Christmas card that Doctor B. sent me. It really is special and you know, I’ve been to lots of doctors in my 87 years and this is the first time I ever got Christmas cards from one of them.”

She handed me the Christmas card and all I could do was smile. I recognized the Christmas card as soon as I saw it! It seems that Doctor B. had excellent taste, since the greeting card he sent was from The Gallery Collection. It was one of my favorite winter scenes holiday cards!

As I looked at the Christmas card, I wondered if the good doctor realized how much happiness he brought, not just to my mom but to all his patients. That one little Christmas card was the best medicine my mom could have gotten from him!

RIDGEFIELD PARK, NJ - December 3, 2008 - Prudent Publishing’s GalleryCollection.com, the leading personalized Christmas cards and corporate Holiday cards publisher in the nation, announced today that it has joined Operation Gratitude and the 2008 Army-Navy Football Game to support deployed service members through Operation Gratitude’s “Letters to Heroes” letter writing campaign.

Operation Gratitude has been sending care packages to individual service members deployed overseas since 2003. “Letters to Heroes” coordinates efforts to provide heartfelt letters to service members, which are then included in each care package.

GalleryCollection.com and Operation Gratitude donated 28,000 holiday cards and will distribute the cards at the 109th Army-Navy Game, being held at Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field on December 6. At the game, fans will use the holiday cards to write personal letters of appreciation to service members, and these personalized Christmas cards will be delivered in each Operation Gratitude care package.

Holiday cards will also be made available for personalization at several Philadelphia hotel welcome tables, the Army-Navy Gala held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on December 5, and Penn’s Landing.

The first Army-Navy Game kicked off in 1890 at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, but it didn’t become a true annual tradition until 1930. Generally played on the first Saturday in December, the game is considered one of the longest lasting rivalries in college football. To learn more about the 2008 game, visit http://www.PhillyLovesArmyNavy.com/.

To learn more about Operation Gratitude and how to contribute to the organization’s military support efforts, visit http://www.opgratitude.com/.

About GalleryCollection.com - Prudent Publishing’s GalleryCollection.com is the leading publisher of premium quality Christmas cards and business Holiday cards in the United States. Established in 1929 and still family owned, the company offers direct-from-the-publisher prices that include customized ink and foil imprints, a large selection of memorable greetings, and matching deckle-edged envelopes made of recycled paper. GalleryCollection.com also offers numerous types of all occasion greeting cards including business birthday cards, thank you cards, and anniversary cards, many of which are FSC-certified (SW-COC-002530) and produced with Green-e certified

Contact:
Greg Koizim
(201) 641-7900 x427

About Operation Gratitude - Operation Gratitude (www.operationgratitude.com) is the 501 (c) (3) non-profit, volunteer organization that annually sends 100,000+ care packages of items and letters addressed to individually named U.S. Service Members deployed in hostile overseas regions. Its mission is to lift morale, bring a smile to a service member’s face and to express to all troops the appreciation and support of the American people. Since its inception in March, 2003, Operation Gratitude has shipped more than 375,000 packages to American troops deployed overseas.

Contact:
Carolyn Blashek
www.youtube.com/OpGrat
Infoline: (818) 909-0039
Tel: (818) 789-0123

Today’s businesses are struggling just to exist! They have to save money wherever they can because of increased fuel costs, higher material costs, and tighter consumer expenditures due to the recessing economy. As a consumer, I would like to commend the companies that still send business holiday cards. They have not forgotten the people that are keeping them in business. There are certain areas in which a business could save money, and cutting back by not sending business holiday cards should not be one of them.

I received some very high quality corporate Christmas cards this past holiday season, despite rising costs. It is very important to thank your customers. Businesses have to go the extra mile to keep their customers happy so they will come back throughout the coming year, especially considering the status of our current economy. The companies that have taken the time to thank their customers are the businesses that I will use and recommend to others. So despite all of the economic setbacks that just about everyone in the U.S. is experiencing, I recommend that businesses keep us consumers in mind with corporate Christmas cards and we’ll keep you in mind the next time we open our checkbooks.