At Thanksgiving I wrote about how I hate e-Thanksgiving cards. Well, here we are just a few weeks later and I must have received over 100 e-holiday cards. Now, I like the holidays as much as anyone else, but I really don't like e-holiday cards. They are not personal, no one reads them AND 50% of the ones I received are from people that I don't know.
Let's not forget that it doesn’t take much to send them and in an increasingly insincere world, it just becomes spam.
So, as I am trying not to let email control my life, I am using these e-holiday cards as an opportunity to unsubscribe to companies' newsletters. Not all of them, but many.
Happy Holidays!
I just came across your blog and specifically this article. A year and a bit ago you were at the point I am at now. e-Cards used to be unique, now, they are spam.
I agree with you 100% that showing someone you really care, means you took the time to send them a real note or card through "snail mail", not an e_Card that if their spam filter did not block it, then like us, they hit the delete key very quickly.
I started recently using a great online tool to design, sign and snail mail a heartfelt greeting card to my clients, prospects, friends and family. It is so efficient and economical.
It is called SendOutCards and their website is www.sendoutcards.com/b2b
Posted by: Ira S. | February 21, 2011 at 10:42 AM