Ready for B2B ecards?

There are not many business to business ecard sites out there. Idiooz.com is a new comer. It offers ecards for many occasions. The ecards are picture only, not animated. The monthly subscription of the service costs $29.00.

Jeanne Caligiuri has launched a new Business Greeting Cards Company, Idiooz.com, to assist in professional communications in business to business or personal use. Idiooz.com provides online greeting cards (e-cards and e-notes) for various events and announcements to clients, potential clients, employees, teachers, dentists as well as for personal use.

Is there a market for a B2B ecard site? Are there other B2B ecard sites out there already? What do you think?

Paper cards vs ecards

According to An e-card for Valentine’s Day? Honestly, you shouldn’t have, ecards and paper cards are not the same.

Cedric Chin-Yick won’t soon forget the year he sent his wife an e-card for her
birthday. She made her disapproval quite clear.

“She prefers the hard copy. It’s substantial. It’s a material thing,” Mr. Chin-Yick, 44, said Tuesday as he fought the crowds shopping for Valentine’s Day at a Carlton Cards store in downtown Toronto. But he noted that he’ll back up the paper card with an electronic one.

Despite dire predictions a decade ago that e-cards would lead to the demise of the traditional card business, the two have found a happy co-existence. While Valentine’s Day is the busiest day of the year for electronic cards, many shoppers wouldn’t think of sending their sweetheart an online greeting.

“It certainly has not ended the card business,” said Sally Babcock, general manager of americangreetings.com, whose parent company also operates Carlton Cards stores. “What we see is that people send e-cards to different people than they’re sending paper cards to. They also supplement their card-sending with an e-card.”

However, there are many reasons to use ecards.

  • Artistic, animated ecards can express your sentiments that may be difficult to do through words only. Sometimes a picture, a video or an animation is worth more than a thousand words.

    “Of the many, many ways to express loving feelings, the Japanese red crowned cranes’ dance and the graceful movements of trumpeter swans are among the most beautiful.” – About.com”

  • Ecards are environment friendly.
  • For the friends, coworkers, and business contacts that you don’t generally send paper cards, you can send ecards to keep in touch.
  • In the countries where the post mail is not reliable, the ecards get there on time.
  • You can save time and money on the paper cards and postage. No more trips to the store to pick out cards and waiting in line at the post office.

    • Do your part to save the environment

    Do your part to save the environment. Send ecards whenever you can. Here is why…

    Businesses urged to save environment with Christmas e-cards
    “With a staggering 744 million Christmas cards delivered by the UK Royal Mail last year, Envirowise is calling on UK businesses to help cut the national Christmas card `mountain’ by sending their seasons greetings electronically. Recent statistics show that one billion Christmas cards, weighing 20,000 tonnes, will end up as waste this Christmas.”

    2 new ecards released for Easter and Spring

    2 new ecards have just been released for the Easter and Spring season. “Easter Delivery” is an Easter card where the Easter bunny brings a very special surprise to mother duck.
    http://www.ojolie.com/index.php?step=preview&ec_id=17 “Origami” can be used for many occasions and is inspired by spring and the Japanese art of Origami.
    http://www.ojolie.com/index.php?step=preview&ec_id=18

    Ojolie.com was featured on the Featured Page of AboutUs.com

    Ojolie.com was featured on the Featured Page of AboutUs.com on March 24, 2007. Here is the featured blog article on AboutUsWeblog.org.

    “If you’re in the market for some high-quality, imaginatively clever eCards, take a look at Ojolie.com. These moving works of art manage to perfectly capture the sentimentality and creativity so often lost in the freebie eCards cluttering up the net. Sure, there’s a price, but at $10 for a year’s worth of access to high quality cards, it isn’t much to pay, especially when you realize that the proceeds go to the talented artists behind the cards. Of course eCards are also easier and cheaper than buying cards at the store (and save all that licking of envelopes), and they help the environment by reducing paper waste, but the real reason to go to Ojolie.com is that they offer some of the coolest eCards out there, and that alone is worth a look.”

    Ecards for Abortion

    Exhale, a nonprofit group that counsels women who’ve had abortions, offers ecards on its web site, www.4exhale.org.

    Do you know someone who’s had an abortion? Are you having trouble knowing what to say? Do you want to let them know you care?
    Send them an e-card. Remember, each person’s experience with abortion is unique. These e-cards were created to address the range of experiences people can have with abortion. As you consider which e-card to send, think about the person you are sending it to. What do they need to know? What are they feeling? What message will provide the most comfort? Each card is provided in English and Spanish.

    Ojolie.com’s ecards are chosen by About.com TopPicks for ecards

    Our e-cards are chosen by About.com TopPicks for ecards.

    #1 in Top 10 Favorite Christmas E-Card Sites
    Hand-painted and animated with incredible attention to details and nuances, the Ojolie Christmas card brings holiday spirit to every home by means of angel dust. #1 in Top 10 Favorite Birthday E-Card Sites
    An amazing lovable seal delivers heartfelt birthday greetings with big eyes. #2 in Top 10 Favorite Valentine’s Day E-Card Sites
    Of the many, many ways to express loving feelings, the Japanese red crowned cranes’ dance and the graceful movements of trumpeter swans are among the most beautiful. Of the many, many ways to send Valentine’s Day greetings via email, Ojolie cards (animating said cranes and swans) are among the most lovely. #3 in Top 10 Favorite Thanksgiving E-Card Sites
    The beautiful squirrel family is up to something… and I have a suspicion it has something to do with Thanksgiving. Send one of the most classy e-cards from Ojolie.

    New birthday ecards arrive!

    We have added a new card ‘The Wish’ as well as a Birthday version of our ‘Telegram’ card to our site.
    The Wish
    Celebrate the day and make a wish!
    Birthday Gram
    By request the ‘Telegram’ card redone for Birthdays: watch the gold crests type and deliver the birthday telegram!
    More cards are presently in production, including ecards for Easter and Mother’s Day as well as more cards for general occasions as requested by many of you.

    Are men afraid of greeting cards?

    According to Lisa Earle McLeod of www.forgetperfect.com in her Greeting card paralysis reaches all time high, the answer is a definitely yes!

    It’s no coincidence that as the more verbose half of the species, women buy and send more cards than men do. According to Hallmark’s research, 82 percent of all greeting cards are purchased by women.

    …..

    Women believe that if a guy really loves you, he’ll choose a card that expresses the subtle nuances of his innermost thoughts and yearnings, creatively set to rhyme and emblazoned with meaningful graphics.

    And woe unto the man who thinks that a simple “Happy Valentine’s Day” is enough. Unless it’s scribbled on the bottom of first-class plane tickets to Paris or etched on the key ring of a Lexus, most women think that it takes more than three words to express true love.

    But there are hopes.

    If you’re a man, the card aisle often feels like a paper minefield of potentially hazardous female emotions. But don’t let fear or insecurity stand in the way of slaying the Valentine dragon. All most women really want is for you to tell her that you love her with your heart and soul.

    And if you’re a woman and the words on his card aren’t quite right, remember they were written by a hired hack in a cube at Hallmark. But the act of braving a store and buying it for you were courageously undertaken by the nervous man clutching the paper heart.