Can You Make a Living Selling Greeting Cards?
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- čas přidán 29. 07. 2024
- Can you actually make a living selling greeting cards? My answer might surprise you. In this video, I share my thoughts on this topic and some words of encouragement if you're about to embark on this journey of monetizing your creativity.
Check out our other videos related to selling greeting cards, including our most viewed videos:
How to Make And Sell Greeting Cards for Your Home Stationery Business: • How to Make Greeting C...
10 Practical Tactics and Strategies for Making and Selling Greeting Cards: • 10 Practical Strategie...
How to Create a Greeting Card Template: • Easy greeting card tem...
How to Pick the Right Card Stock for Your Greeting Card: • What is the Best Card ...
I created my own greeting card template to place 2 cards on a single page, now available in A2, A6 and A7 size: www.easysundayclub.com/collec....
Wholesale line sheet template fully editable on Canva: Wholesale line sheet template: www.easysundayclub.com/collec...
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Materials we use to make our own greeting cards:
Here are the card stock and paper companies I use for my business and recommend:
- Red River offers high quality card stock for artists, illustrators and photographers. My favorites are their River Linen and Polar White Matte card stock: www.redrivercatalog.com/cards...
- Unfortunately one of my recommended store for lower quantity card stock is going out of business. My current go-to supplier is (lower cost but you have to commit to higher quantity): www.thepapermillstore.com/car...
It took me a couple of years before I started buying card stock in bulk once I committed to a single type of card stock. It's ok to start with small quantity even if the cost per sheet is higher, but do make sure you cards are profitable!
ENVELOPES
- Premium Euro Flap A2 Sized that you can buy individually: www.cardsandpockets.com/a2-eu...
- If you can commit to 50 or more envelopes, this is a more economical option, especially when you can combine shipping with your card stock order: shrsl.com/2ywjw.
- Most economical option if you just want kraft envelopes: amzn.to/2RVJ52x
EQUIPMENT AND PACKAGING:
- Epson V600 Scanner (what we use): amzn.to/3aMT0QB
- Epson P900, the newest successor to our printer Epson P800, was released in late 2020: amzn.to/3eLHdpM
- High precision Rotatrim paper trimmer/cutter (24in, also comes in other lengths): amzn.to/3jL40C1
- Clear Bag A2 Sized: amzn.to/2Ub3vYl (the bags have to be slightly larger than the card to fit in both the card and envelope)
- Clear Bag 5x7'' Sized: amzn.to/3qV3aG2 (the bags have to be slightly larger than the card to fit in both the card and envelope)
- Electric Creasing Machine: amzn.to/2vw9Djt
- Manual Scoring Board (what we were using before): amzn.to/37w2YUx
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Online Shop: www.easysundayclub.com
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Clubhouse: @cathyz
Facebook: / easysundayclub
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A full list of tools and equipment we use for art and business is available at our website here: www.easysundayclub.com/pages/...
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Music: In French (Used w/ Artist Permission)
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Thanks for this. I've been writing cards for American Greetings for 3 years. Decided to start selling my own cards. Thanks for the pep talk
I hope you have more success selling your cards than I have had merchandising them...for AG.
How did you land that position? If you don’t mind me asking
I appreciate your videos. When I first opened up my Etsy shop, I was selling printables. Thanks to you, I got the courage to sell greeting cards. I find they are selling better than my digital products. It's also easier to ship, so it's working out great. I am actually enjoying packing my orders. I thought it would actually stress me out.
Good to know! I find packaging work kind of meditative even though it’s manual labor. Plus I usually listen to podcasts at the same time so it’s good time to multitask w/o frying my brain ha.
Thank you Cathy! I have learned so much from you & your husband. See you can even teach a 65 year old something new! Thank you!
Thank you for your support. Your words mean a lot Jean.
Thank you, Kathy! Be blessed!
Thank you for sharing your experience. I have been crafting my whole life and I have just decided to turn it into a business. I felt like I didn't believe in myself enough when I saw all those videos about becoming a millionaire overnight by selling stationery on Etsy because I know the process is different in reality. This is a very realistic and honest video.... I appreciate your honesty
Let me tell you, you always have a word at the appropriate time. I thank you.
Good food for thought
Thank you, Cathy (Kathy?), for your observations based on your experiences. Somehow I stumbled onto your channel & am glad I did! I have a small photo & card printing business and it is enlightening to hear your experiences. Not looking at ventures as simply successes or failures, but also for what you can learn from every venture is an excellent point! How did I stumble... Oh, yes, looking at printer reviews & the small home card printing business... Thanks!!
so true - almost every experience can be a lesson that makes us wiser :). thanks for watching and good luck with your business! -Cathy
YOU GOT A GOOD MICROPHONE
6:43 👏👏 I appreciate the content.
Such a great perspective. Thank you for sharing it. ❤
Great video on this topic!
Thank you. I love your channel. You and your husband are an inspiration to me.
thank you Erbie Erbie, appreciate your positive energy!
Thank you very much for this video. I want to open a greeting card business and then add on T-shirts as well for my niche. I was bit a nervous and scared but I feel so much better.
Thank you for this. I needed it !!!!
:) best of luck Diana
This is great. I needed this advice today. Happy new year! Thanks for your content.
you’re welcome!
Great video, Kathy! Exactly what I needed right now, trying to start an etsy shop.
Great Polina I know you can do it!
Just have to do it. Thanks Cathy. Like the niche idea.
You are so welcome!
Thanks for sharing this!! It was the little push I needed
you’re welcome!
So inspirational, thankyou. This will help me with my card making journey. 🥰
It’s a balance between our desires and the marketplace. My Christmas greeting cards sell best, but they are the one’s I really don’t like producing. But they sell, so I keep making them. If I just sold and produced what I like, the sales would be less. Oh well, what’s another wreath, no?
lol “what’s another wreath?” I’m at my 3rd wreath and I think I’ve reached my limit. We have to manage our creative energy to prevent fatigue or burnout, but yes it’s a constant balancing act.
Super helpful, this video is making me question my intentions more and I appreciate that. Love this channel
Thanks Claire. These videos are short but take a long time to put my thoughts together, so I'm glad it made you think as it did for me!
Wow. I’m so happy I found your channel. Your voice is so easy to listen to!! Thank you!
thank you so much! And youtube for allowing you to find us :).
Such wisdom, just love this quote of yours: "Instead of seeing things as this binary success or failure, try to reframe it as - I'm curious if it will work, and if not, how can I improve it?" :)
We’re bound to face plant a bunch of times in this journey, just trying to make it a softer landing when it happens ;).
I loved that card.
Thanks, it's my personal fav!
Great video 🏁
Glad you like it!
Thanks very much, I'm eager to start the business,, learnt alot.from Zambia
Hi there, I am from South Africa, so excited to bump into someone else from the continent on here. Good luck with your business, hope it goes well. I am also starting up. I make cards, journals, albums, t shirts, tote bags, well anything die cut and heat pressed basically. Well anyway, have fun and wishing you tons of success
I almost had a sale on my etsy shop for my greeting cards, but they refunded the money back to the buyer due to something wrong on my end, I still haven't looked properly to workout what the issue was a few years later I've had my shop on holiday mode since until I sort the issue out,then I can reopen and sell again 😅
I had a doubt , can I use card stock paper to make a Polaroid ?
Another question, after you get your designs where do you get supplies and are there Companies.you use that will fulfill orders or do you have to do it all yourself. Thank you.
check out our playlist on Selling Greeting Cards and it has all the answers!
Yes, I think multiple streams of income is the best way to make full time income. Once you create art, you have to ask yourself, "how many different ways can I sell this" or 'how much different avenues can I go down to get as much revenue as I can out of this art that I took the time and love to create?" You can sell stickers, art prints, t-shirts, totes, mugs, notebooks, teach courses, etc. to increase your income with your art. I do have a question. I'm trying to decide if I should charge shipping or not. I see several Etsy shops selling 4x6 cards for $5. Some charge shipping, some don't. There is one in particular that has over ten thousand sales and does free shipping, going with USPS ground shipping with no tracking on orders under $20. Can you perhaps make a video talking about free shipping vs charging for shipping and the pros and cons of each? Thanks
I have a wip draft file for this topic of shipping! It might take some weeks to get it out but it’s on my to do :).
@@EasySundayClub thanks so much!
@@EasySundayClub I can't see how a profit is made with free shipping on a $5.00 card. I can't wait to see your video, thanks
I cover it a little bit in the shipping video I just made but basically I think they either use untrackable (cheaper) shipping method or know their AOV is higher and can absorb the shipping cost. Also their cost goes way down when producing cards at high volume.
@@EasySundayClub Thanks for always taking the time to reply! Really appreciate it :)
ur easy to listen to, like ur voice is nice
ha thank you! :) took me a long time to get used to hearing my own voice through recording.
Great video! I'm sure you have answered this before, but what vendor do you use for your baby blankets? Also, quite a few links in your recommendations are not working.
Ok we’ll check them out. We partner with a family friend who manufactures for hospitality companies. The process is pretty involved. I’ve used a vendor from Alibaba before but don’t recommend that vendor, but you can find several on there.
@@EasySundayClub thanks!
always wonderful advice, thank you for sharing and i am very thankful for your small youtube channel :)
our small channel is thankful for subs like you Clare!
I am just starting out selling greeting cards. Can I just sell sets? I don’t really want to ship singles
yes!
Can you just use photos? I can’t draw
Yes if you took the photos.