{"id":834,"date":"2008-11-10T12:05:58","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T16:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/business-thanksgiving-cards\/business-thanksgiving-cards-%e2%80%93-the-christmas-cards-alternative\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T20:40:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:40:44","slug":"business-thanksgiving-cards-the-christmas-cards-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/business-thanksgiving-cards\/business-thanksgiving-cards-the-christmas-cards-alternative\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Thanksgiving Cards \u2013 The Christmas Cards Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know you may think I\u2019m crazy, but by the time Labor Day rolls around, all I can think of is Christmas. Christmas shopping! Christmas decorations! Christmas trees! Christmas carolers! And most importantly, Christmas cards! It\u2019s enough to make even the most relaxed of us turn visions of sugarplums into visions of that mean one, Mr. Grinch!<\/p>\n

For those of us already mentally making our list and checking it twice, the act of sending business greeting cards<\/a><\/strong> is not strictly a Christmas ritual anymore. This is a relief for a number of reasons. First of all, as much as I\u2019d love to make a point to send my best wishes to colleagues and clients, if I wait until December, I\u2019m taking a gamble on whether those business greeting cards will ever make it to the mailbox! Secondly, if I wait until December, my Christmas cards are bound to get lost in the shuffle with all of the other business greeting cards being sent at the same time.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why business Thanksgiving cards<\/a><\/strong> are a great alternative. Thanking those you\u2019ve done business with a month before the norm allows your message to stand out when it\u2019s received and allows you to cross one more task off your list before the end of November. It also saves you the trouble of choosing between Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, or Season\u2019s Greetings for the face of the design on your business greeting cards.<\/p>\n

There is plenty to be thankful for as autumn and winter are coming upon us, and one of those things is the option of business Thanksgiving Cards!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I know you may think I\u2019m crazy, but by the time Labor Day rolls around, all I can…","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1292,1299,27],"tags":[42,50,911],"class_list":{"0":"post-834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-occasions-and-celebrations","7":"category-expressing-thanks","8":"category-business-thanksgiving-cards","9":"tag-business-greeting-cards","10":"tag-christmas-cards","11":"tag-business-thanksgiving-cards","12":"cs-entry"},"yoast_head":"\nBusiness Thanksgiving Cards \u2013 The Christmas Cards Alternative - 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