From Greeting Cards to Pinterest: Activity Streams and Marketing. ByKurt Cagle, ... The business card started out as a way to leave a message, but evolved into a very elaborate ...

Ho, ho, ho -- wait, another greeting card? Those who know me well know I have a disdain for greeting cards. The preordained notion that we must send greeting cards to everyone during every holiday ...

For instance, if a greeting card has a $2 base price, you can choose a standard 20% markup to sell the card for $2.40. Or you can opt for a 50% markup, which would boost the card’s price to $3.

Greeting-Card Business Is Not All Rosy and Sweet. By David Colker . Aug. 9, 2006 12 AM PT . ... The card business is spread among about 3,000 companies, according to the Greeting Card Assn.

Annual retail sales of greeting cards in the U.S. are more than $7.5 billion with individuals purchasing seven billion greeting cards per year, according to the Greeting Card Association.

Greeting cards "require a fairly high expenditure in advertising and marketing to acquire clients, " said Mark Deo, author of The Rules of Attraction and CEO of Torrance (Calif.)-based consulting ...

American Greetings, already one of the largest e-card providers, ... Business; American Greetings' JustWink app sends cards from your smartphone. Updated: Jun. 27, 2011, 2:00 a.m.

American Greetings, one of the behemoths of the greeting card world, would not disclose exact sales figures. But Rob Matousek, the executive director for the company’s digital business, said it ...

With sales of paper greeting cards on the decline, market leader Hallmark Cards Inc. is revamping its operations to slash costs, overhaul its retail business and grow the 110-year-old company’s ...