Need to Buy Greeting Cards? Queue Them Online.
A new Seattle company introduces a fresh, new way to send greetings
Seattle, WA, November 12, 2007 --(PR.com)-- A new Seattle company launches an online solution to help thoughtful yet busy people keep in touch with friends and family. The recently launched www.GreetQ.com, a web-based greeting card service, combines the convenience of online shopping with a task usually reserved for those with heaps of time - sending personalized greeting cards.
The company name, GreetQ, comes from the company’s unique greeting card queuing service. Shoppers can enter their contacts with addresses online once, choose a greeting card, write a personal note then schedule a date (birthday, anniversary, holiday, etc.) for the card to be mailed. GreetQ will then mail the card to whomever the customer wants whenever they want. The shopper’s list of scheduled cards can then be easily managed online in a “card queue,” similar to the Netflix queue for managing DVDs.
In a time where you can have a steady stream of DVDs delivered through the mail or have a pair of fashionable shoes delivered to your doorstep overnight, greeting cards are one of the last bastions of online shopping convenience. Using GreetQ, shoppers can choose all the cards they’ll need for the entire year in one sitting, and then forget about it; at a glance they can easily manage upcoming events from their queue and schedule additional cards to be sent as needed.
“People have been looking for an easy way to keep in touch with friends and family while balancing impossibly busy schedules,” says GreetQ.com cofounder Jennifer Taylor. “We’ve all had a friend’s birthday slip up on us and are caught without enough time to shop for and send a card.” Ecards have filled the niche to some extent but Taylor concludes that “although ecards provide some convenience, we all know that they often don’t make the same impression as a carefully chosen greeting card signed with a thoughtful note. People like to collect greeting cards and hang them on the fridge; an email isn‘t quite the same.”
As for the cards, GreetQ does not carry your traditional fare found in the supermarket. “All cards are carefully chosen from the best independent card designers in the industry” says Taylor. GreetQ carries stylish, elegant designs from brands like Deluce Designs, Tori Higa and Flaunt. “These are the cards you’d find in small hidden boutiques and they’re all truly unique and beautiful.”
As shoppers seek to shift traditionally time-consuming tasks to the internet, companies like GreetQ are emerging with rich online interfaces helping to bridge the gap between conventional retail and the web. Taylor along with fellow cofounder Kent Skinner both have backgrounds in technology and together have over 20 years of experience building and designing software and online web services. “We sought to bring an industry grounded in tradition up-to-date with online tools that have proven successful for other companies” says Skinner. “The website was designed to insure that we offered a solid and reliable experience for our customers. We wanted to make the experience easier and more pleasant than trekking to the local market to wade through the greeting card aisle.”
In an effort to meet customers’ needs, GreetQ offers a variety of services such as an address book manager and a free reminder service which will send out an email as the important occasion approaches as a gentle nudge to buy a card. “In essence” says Skinner “users can use our online services as a contact and occasion manager all for free.” If a user would prefer to hand-deliver a card, cards can be purchased and shipped immediately, without any personalization.
Cards can be personalized with custom messages using a variety of fonts. Personalization costs $1.99 US per card. Shoppers also have the choice of having their message handwritten by a member of the GreetQ staff for an additional $1.00.
Taylor adds “We aim to do what Zappos.com has done for shoes and what Netflix has done for movie rentals. It’s now time for greeting cards to enter the fold.”
About GreetQ:
GreetQ.com is a Seattle, WA based business and is an online greeting card retailer offering greeting card personalization services. Please visit their website @ www.greetq.com.
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The company name, GreetQ, comes from the company’s unique greeting card queuing service. Shoppers can enter their contacts with addresses online once, choose a greeting card, write a personal note then schedule a date (birthday, anniversary, holiday, etc.) for the card to be mailed. GreetQ will then mail the card to whomever the customer wants whenever they want. The shopper’s list of scheduled cards can then be easily managed online in a “card queue,” similar to the Netflix queue for managing DVDs.
In a time where you can have a steady stream of DVDs delivered through the mail or have a pair of fashionable shoes delivered to your doorstep overnight, greeting cards are one of the last bastions of online shopping convenience. Using GreetQ, shoppers can choose all the cards they’ll need for the entire year in one sitting, and then forget about it; at a glance they can easily manage upcoming events from their queue and schedule additional cards to be sent as needed.
“People have been looking for an easy way to keep in touch with friends and family while balancing impossibly busy schedules,” says GreetQ.com cofounder Jennifer Taylor. “We’ve all had a friend’s birthday slip up on us and are caught without enough time to shop for and send a card.” Ecards have filled the niche to some extent but Taylor concludes that “although ecards provide some convenience, we all know that they often don’t make the same impression as a carefully chosen greeting card signed with a thoughtful note. People like to collect greeting cards and hang them on the fridge; an email isn‘t quite the same.”
As for the cards, GreetQ does not carry your traditional fare found in the supermarket. “All cards are carefully chosen from the best independent card designers in the industry” says Taylor. GreetQ carries stylish, elegant designs from brands like Deluce Designs, Tori Higa and Flaunt. “These are the cards you’d find in small hidden boutiques and they’re all truly unique and beautiful.”
As shoppers seek to shift traditionally time-consuming tasks to the internet, companies like GreetQ are emerging with rich online interfaces helping to bridge the gap between conventional retail and the web. Taylor along with fellow cofounder Kent Skinner both have backgrounds in technology and together have over 20 years of experience building and designing software and online web services. “We sought to bring an industry grounded in tradition up-to-date with online tools that have proven successful for other companies” says Skinner. “The website was designed to insure that we offered a solid and reliable experience for our customers. We wanted to make the experience easier and more pleasant than trekking to the local market to wade through the greeting card aisle.”
In an effort to meet customers’ needs, GreetQ offers a variety of services such as an address book manager and a free reminder service which will send out an email as the important occasion approaches as a gentle nudge to buy a card. “In essence” says Skinner “users can use our online services as a contact and occasion manager all for free.” If a user would prefer to hand-deliver a card, cards can be purchased and shipped immediately, without any personalization.
Cards can be personalized with custom messages using a variety of fonts. Personalization costs $1.99 US per card. Shoppers also have the choice of having their message handwritten by a member of the GreetQ staff for an additional $1.00.
Taylor adds “We aim to do what Zappos.com has done for shoes and what Netflix has done for movie rentals. It’s now time for greeting cards to enter the fold.”
About GreetQ:
GreetQ.com is a Seattle, WA based business and is an online greeting card retailer offering greeting card personalization services. Please visit their website @ www.greetq.com.
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www.greetq.com
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