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May 18th is send an electronic Greeting Card Day – One of two Electronic Greeting Card Days (the other is November) … there are so many great electronic greeting card companies online. I like Jackie Lawson Cards the best! It is very reasonable to be a member for a year and she has many from which to choose. I like these for their traditional down to earth look. You could always make your own by purchasing a photo from Fotolia or Dreamstime (approx. $1 to $5 each). “Google” FREE clip art for others.
May 18th, 2009
The Quirky Marketing Greeting Card Contest is officially over!
The “rules” were to “Create a fun, quirky, unusual card message as a promotion for your company, product or service and tell me what you did. The message should be creative and promote something you want to spread the word about. It can be a product, a new product launch, an event, a celebration, a strategic alliance, does not matter. As long as the message can be expressed on a greeting card or postcard.”
What surprised me is that some people did just that and others sent in cute cards with no purpose in mind. They did not have a clear message nor did they promote their company in any way, shape or form. Having said that, we did have a few people who followed the directions and sent us some cute and/or quirky cards. It was a tough decision, in fact so much so, it took the judges an extra week to decide who to bestow the honors to.
Honorable Mention goes to the following:
Honorable Mention winners receive a half page ad in WE Magazine for women.
Kristine Sheehan of The MerryBird.com for her Valentine Postcard announcing her pen and Ink portraits for your Valentine.
Lisa Moren Bromma of Wise WomenInvestor.com for her postcards announcing her services and invitation to visit her website.
3rd Place winner in the Quirky Marketing Greeting Card Challlenge is Jessica Sellers of Chrysalis Logos.com – her card focused on “Make up Your Own Holiday Day” and offered an economic stimulus incentive (discount on services) to anyone who placed an order on that day. Way to Go, Jessica! Jessica won a One-year Charter Membership in the Women’s eCommerce Association.
2nd Place winner in the Quirky Marketing Greeting Card Challenge is Mr. Jim Barber. Jim promoted his company Tooter Talk (www.TooterTalk.com) with a picture of him on the cover standing in on stage at the IMPROV with the headline “Do You Know What Today is?” The inside said simply… “Today is the first day of the rest of your new career!” Talk about perfect timing in this economy! Jim won a full page ad in WE Magazine for Women!
1st Place winner in the Quirky Marketing Greeting Card Challlenge is …..drum roll please………………
Racheli Smilovits of WCS Lending! Racheli didn’t send in the required one entry – she sent in SIX! And each one was clever and unique. The one that cinched the winning was the postcard attached to a bag of peanuts that said “It will be NUTS to Navigate throught the Real Estate Waters without a Professional Lender.” And her contact info, etc. The graphic she used was a walnut shell and her beautiful face peeping out of it. Racheli won a two page article interview in the Spring Issue of WE Magazine, a copy of her choice of one of the fabulous books in our library AND a $25 gift certificate from SendOutCards (choice of Visa Gift Card, Candy, Brownies and more).
Each of the above entrants will also receive a frameable Certificate customized with their names and date of the Quirky Marketing Contest as well as a mention in the accompanying media release announcing the Winners!
Several of the contestants grabbed their free account at SendOutCards.com/Heidi. THANKS!
Look for our next contest in the summer!
And if you haven’t yet picked up your copy of Quirky Marketing, go here: www.QuirkyOffer.com. More than $2,000 worth of bonuses are waiting for you when you do!
March 25th, 2009
That’s right! We have had so much interest in this contest, we decided to extend the deadline for submissions.
To enter simply send your greeting card/postcard to
Redhead Marketing Inc.
Attention: Quirky Contest
P.O. Box 550856
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33355-0856
Must be postmarked by midnight February 28th.
To read the “rules” visit: http://www.redheadmarketingblog.com/quirky-marketing-greeting-card-contest-launches/
You can come up with your a card using your own software program or you can test out the card using the system I use to send out cards and that is, you guessed it… SendOutCards.com. When you click on SendOutCards.com it takes you to my SOC website and you can have a FREE card on me just to try it out!
In fact, tonight at 8pm EST Heidi Caswell and I will be doing another demonstration of the SOC system and you are invited to attend. Just call the teleconference bridge line ~ 1-641-715-3840 participant access code is 361467# (it takes less than half an hour).
If you’ve already signed up for a FREE SOC account, and would like to know how to upload your own pictures, click on this cool video Heidi created: http://screencast.com/t/KU3SSLMNN
You can also learn more about the system tomorrow with Diane Walker during a live webinar.
Date:Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Time:1:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST
Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/326348428
This is for those looking at SOC as a business OR as a customer. Login with invitation number: 55997
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Heidi
February 3rd, 2009
Okay, you are probably wondering what the *Quirky Marketing Greeting Card Contest is, right?
Glad you asked!
In celebration of the launch of my new book Quirky Marketing Calendar – 365 Ways to Use Zany and Non-traditional Holidays to Promote Your Business we are hosting a contest.
And there are lots of prizes.
Here’s the rules:
Create a fun, quirky, unusual card message as a promotion for your company, product or service and tell me what you did.
The message should be creative and promote something you want to spread the word about. It can be a product, a new product launch, an event, a celebration, a strategic alliance, does not matter. As long as the message can be expressed on a greeting card or postcard.
And you can even test out the card using the place I use to send out cards and that is, you guessed it… SendOutCards.com. When you click on SendOutCards.com it takes you to my SOC website and you can have a FREE card on me just to try it out!
Send your entry to:
Redhead Marketing Inc.
Attention: Quirky Contest
P.O. Box 550856
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33355-0856
Cards will be judged by a panel of marketing experts from the Florida Direct Marketing Association.
Contest ends February 28th so you have to hurry! Winners will be announced during Quirky Marketing Month in early March in honor of the launch of Quirky Marketing!
Oh, and the prizes…
Grand Prize winner will receive a two page article interview in the Spring Issue of WE Magazine, a copy of your choice of one of the books listed below AND a $25 gift certificate from SendOutCards (choice of Visa Gift Card, Candy, Brownies and more).
The Prizes:
2- $25 gift certificates from SOC for brownies, truffles and more!
A dozen Roses delivered anywhere in the US
Several books including:
Power and Wisdom, the New Path for Women by Dr. Priscilla Marotta
Rose Marketing on a Daisy Budget by Heidi Richards
Full page ad in WE Magazine for Women
Half page ad in WE Magazine for Women
A one-year Charter Membership in the Women’s eCommerce Association
and more!
1st, 2nd, 3rd place and Honorable Mention Winners will also receive a frameable Certificate customized with their names and date of the Quirky Marketing Contest as well as a mention in the accompanying media release announcing the Winners!
Be sure and go to SendOutCards.com/Heidi and sign up for a free account.
And send me your cards!
FYI: Heidi Caswell and I will be hosting a live demonstration of the SendOutCards system on Thursday January 29th at 9 PM EST. You are welcome to join us and see what all the excitement is about and learn how to use Send Out Cards to grow your business. Call the teleconference bridge line ~ 1-641-715-3840 participant access code is 361467#
Note: Greeting cards or post cards are acceptable entries. And you do not have to use the SOC site, but we hope you do! Multiple entries are also acceptable. All entries must be postmarked by February 5th in order to qualify.
The fine print: If we receive less than 7 entries, contest may be cancelled or postponed due to lack of sufficient samples to “judge.” In addition, if judges don’t feel entries warrant a first, second or third place honor, no prize will be awarded in those categories.
(*void where prohibited by law).
January 28th, 2009
The origins of Hanukah or the Festival of Lights are an event that happened 200 years before the birth of Christ. A king named Antiochus attempted to have all Jewish persons under his reign to follow the Greek religion. Under the leadership of Judah Maccabee, there was a rebellion. After three years of fighting, the Maccabees drove the Greek soldiers away. The Maccabees wanted to rededicate the temple, but were only able to find enough oil for one day. Miraculously, the oil lasted eight days; long enough to make new oil.
Hanukkah is celebrated by a series of rituals that are performed every day throughout the 8-day holiday.
Hanukkah is not a “Sabbath-like” holiday, and there is no obligation to refrain from activities that are forbidden on the Sabbath, as specified in the Shulkhan Arukh. An important part of the Hanukah celebration is the menorah. This is a candleholder with eight candles and a shammash or servant candle. One candle is lit by the shammash for each of the night of Hanukah. After the lighting of the candles, people give gifts to one another. People sing and make merry. A popular food for Hanukah is potato pancakes, or latkes, cooked in oil in honor of the miracle.
People go to work as usual, but may leave early in order to be home to kindle the lights at nightfall. There is no religious reason for schools to be closed, although, in Israel, schools close for the whole week of Hanukkah.
Many families exchange gifts each night, and fried foods are eaten.
Whether you spell it Chanukah, Chanukkah, Hanukkah, Hanuka, or Channuka, you’re probably right. Because of the linguistic differences between English and Hebrew, there is no “correct” spelling, though depending on your priorities and taste, some are more correct than others.
Children enjoy playing the dreidel game. This is a top game played with nuts or gold-covered chocolate coins. There are four letters of the top which stand for nun, gimmel, hay, and shin and give the directions for what to give or take during the game. The letters also stand for “nes gadol hayah sham” or “a great miracle happened there.”
Sources: http://www.cstone.net/~bry-back/holidayfun/dec.html ~ http://www.mahalo.com/How_to_Spell_Hanukkah, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanukkah
Be sure and recognize the holiday and wish your Jewish friends and clientele a very happy Hannukah either in person, by phone or with a greeting card.
Here are two videos to enjoy for the holiday:
Watch Tim Harrington of LES SAVY FAV as he celebrates Hanukkah on the mitzvah tank in soho.
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=BGnJizajCPA
This is a beautiful traditional song: “Hanukkah O Hanukkah”
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=_VthR66p_3c
Mazel Tov!
December 21st, 2008
November 29th is Electronic Greetings Day –
Post Free Funny, Edgy Video e-Cards On Social Networking Sites & Blogs with RattleBox. Or send a traditional ecard for free from several sites including Smilebox.com DoozyCards.com or American Greetings.
Like the real thing but don’t have time to go to the post office or local card store? You can sign up online for SendOutCards and send a REAL CARD that gets mailed to your recipient the very next day! SendOutCards are a wonderful stay-in-touch method to let people know just how much you care. You know that feeling you get when you go to the mailbox and in between all the direct mail soliticitations, and bills is a beautiful hand written greeting card? You see that and forget about all the other mail. All you want to do is tear that envelop open to see what’s inside. Real cards are no longer a lost art. Not since SendOutCards came on the scene.
Try it out! See what I mean. Way better than Electronic Greetings because people can keep these cards, post them on their bulletin board or refrigerator.
And if you like what you see, you can sign up with SendOutCards www.SendOutCards.com/Heidi as a distributor. What a wonderful way to add you’re your monthly income stream.
Source: Your Marketing Calendar 2008
November 29th, 2008
Last week Heidi Caswell of Connect Simply, and yours truly Heidi Richards Mooney did a teleseminar on follow up strategies in business.
Remember when you were young and started making friends or dating, you knew instinctively that if someone didn’t “make a move” you’d probably loose the opportunity to get to know that person better. And yet, when it comes to business we may understand the importance of “making a move” (follow up) but many times we simply don’t do it. In this session we talked about that and more.
Here are jsut a few of the ideas Heidi and I shared:
Follow up strategies, what works and what doesn’t
Why “high touch” marketing is so important especially today
When you should follow up with someone
One great strategy that always works ~ that strategy is greeting cards and postcards (I’ll write more later about how I am using it to promote all 3 of my businesses)
Stories of business owners who used that one strategy to really grow their business
And other great tips.
In fact, we are sharing this audio with the readers of Redhead Marketing Blog. Go here and grab your copy: www.redheadmarketingblog.com/audio/FollowUpDivas.mp3.
You can contact Heidi Caswell at www.ConnectSimply.com. Feel free to drop me a line at heidi (at) redheadmarketing.com if you’d like us to give you a personal tour of our Greeting Cards System.
November 12th, 2008
personalized postcards and greeting cards have been our number one stay in touch method. We have found them to be a great “buzz generator.” The system we use is called SendOutCards and since I have been using it, have had thank you notes for our thank you notes, phone calls thanking me for thinking of them in such a personalized way and everyone so far has said they are “keepers.”
Continue Reading November 7th, 2008
November 29th is Electronic Greetings Day ~
Post Free Funny, Edgy Video e-Cards On Social Networking Sites & Blogs with RattleBox www.rattlebox.com. Or send a traditional ecard for free from several sites including Smilebox.com DoozyCards.com or American Greetings.
My personal favorite are Jackie Lawson cards. These electronic greeting cards are not free but they are innexpensive (and worth it).
Like the real thing but don’t have time to go to the post office or local card store? You can sign up online for SendOutCards and send a REAL CARD that gets mailed to your recipient the very next day! SendOutCards are a wonderful stay-in-touch method to let people know just how much you care. You know that feeling you get when you go to the mailbox and in between all the direct mail soliticitations, and bills is a beautiful hand written greeting card? You see that and forget about all the other mail. All you want to do is tear that envelop open to see what’s inside. Real cards are no longer a lost art. Not since SendOutCards came on the scene. Try it out! See what I mean. Way better than Electronic Greetings because people can keep these cards, post them on their bulletin board or refrigerator.
And if you like what you see, you can sign up with SendOutCards www.SendOutCards.com/Heidi as a distributor. What a wonderful way to add you’re your monthly income stream.
November 2nd, 2008
What if there was a system that could help you develop a continuous stream of solid referrals and all you had to do is set it up one time, add contacts as you receive them and few clicks of the mouse start your referral building process?
Continue Reading October 30th, 2008
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