FOR ARTISTS
Greeting Card Association Tips for Artists
Heather Castles Card Design Tips
Porterfield's Resources for Artists
Article on Getting Started in Art Licensing
Blog on Art Licensing
Recommended Books on Greeting Card Design
This Blog on Professional Greeting Card Designing
32-page Booklet 20 Steps to Art Licensing: How to Sell Your Designs to Card and Gift Companies
18-page booklet Unusual Ways To Market Greeting Cards, and 22 places to get your designs featured.
FOR WRITERS
Greeting Card Association Tips for Writers
List of Company Links for Writer Guidelines
Articles on Getting Paid To Write Simple Greeting Cards
List of 7 Mistakes Greetings Card Writers Make
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Greeting Card Business ebooks.
You can support this blog by ordering Kate's eBooks starting at only .99 cents!
They can be read on your kindle, ipad, ipod, cellphone, or your computer.
Unusual Ways to Market Your Greeting Cards and 22 Places to Get Your Designs Featured A booklet on how to get your cards noticed in non-traditional ways. Everything from why you should send cards to your dentist, to how to get special features in national publications. Great tips for designers who are starting out and want to get their cards into the hands of people beyond friends and family. Special Section: Submissions guidelines and contacts for 22 Gift Industry publications and professional gift industry blogs that seek out new greeting card designs to feature for free.
7 Mistakes Greeting Card Writers Make Booklet on common mistakes greeting card writers make and what to avoid when submitting greeting card verse to publishers. Today, greeting card publishers are shying away from traditional stereotypes, and may even include pets as family members. This article talks about how to create a trendy card that reflects the contemporary world we live in, and how to use our own personal experiences to create great card verse. Topics include: how to avoid limiting the market of who could buy your card, when to use adjectives, how not to creating card for enemies, how to write like people talk and a list of why card sentiment submissions are often rejected. The good news is you can increase your odds of success by 60% by doing a few simple things.
20 Steps to Art Licensing: How to Sell Your Designs to Card and Gift Companies A booklet on how to license your art to companies that publish greeting cards, and manufacture coffee mugs, magnets, wall hangings, kitchen items, and dozens of other gift items. This booklet covers 20 basic steps from how to prepare your art, to what companies to contact. It includes topics on: How to find agents, classes and what trade shows to attend. There are extensive resources on social media, licensing community groups, copyrights, and lists of interviews with professional designers.
Get Your Greeting Cards Into Stores: How to Find and Work With Sales Reps If you already make your own greeting cards, this book explains how to get your cards into stores and sell them sell nationwide. Included are guidelines on: how to price your cards for a profit, how to get professional feedback, where to find a sales representative and and what industry standards you should follow. All the information is also applicable to gift items, such as magnets, journals, calendars, collectibles, etc. Chapter topics: Getting Professional Feedback, Getting Your First Account, Pricing and Profits, Sales Reps 101, Where to Find Reps, Rep Readiness Checklist, Pitching Your Line to a Rep and Working With Reps.
Greeting Card Class
You can also sign up for the class called Getting into the Greeting Card Business. The content is based on my experience of working in the industry for over 20 years, and from publishing over 1,000 cards.
Register here.
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