Starting Your Own Home Greeting Card Business
A lot of people at home are looking for lucrative home business opportunities and one of these would be a home greeting card business. Needless to say, you would need to have a certain degree of skill and depth in drawing and designing in order for you have a shot at making your home greeting card business a boom.One of the few advantages that can come out of this kind of business is its incredible potential for growth as well as income. Furthermore, you as the owner will have several different options to choose from once the business has flourished. You basically have 2 different options as to how you want to go about with your home greeting card business. The first is, of course, selling the cards or e-cards in stores in your area. The second would be selling your cards to a bigger card distributor to avail of their reputation.The first thing you need to do when starting out is deciding which part of the business you would want to concentrate on. If you are a freelance greeting card artist, focusing on designing cards for different companies would be your first option. This will entail costs which would include getting a computer as well as a graphic art software. That having been said, you would need to have ample knowledge about computers and how to use the software that you are going to use.If you are a not a good designer but still want to engage in the home greeting card business, you can also be a greeting card writer. This time, you would focus on writing the sayings and phrases that are going to be used by greeting card companies on their cards. You won’t need to have a graphic art software for this kind of job but you will still need a computer though. If you are good with both designing and writing then kudos to you since you will be earning double.But even if you are already accepting assignments from companies, which would get you around $50-$100 per assignment, you would still need to build up your portfolio. Otherwise, you will have a hard time finding a business partner or a client. Whether you focus on one type of greeting card or all of them which would include birthday, graduation, wedding, apology, and anniversary card, you need to have resilience and patience because even if this kind of business has great potential, it needs a lot of work.
