Greeting Cards

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Just leave the prices blank on the items you don't want to sell. Don't put in a 0 - leave the boxes completely empty.

Thanks Toby, I appreciate your help. I have done that, but still see these products offered, when I click on my photos. Does it take 24 hours for these changes to be made?

I thought the price changes were instantaneously when you do a bulk edit.

My question is, and it is none of my business, so feel free to tell me so, whey would you only want to sell greeting cards? Just curious.

Two steps:

Behind the Scenes >Default Settings (change all items you don't want to sell to blanks - not zero - blank) This will set the defaults correctly for all your new uploads

then

Behind the Scenes >Bulk Edit Prices (select all your images, edit all prices for all items so that only greeting cards have prices and everything else is blank, then submit) That will update everything you have to reflect the null pricing on everything except cards, and should solve your problem!

:)

Meg.... you should be charging much more for your greeting cards than you have noted there!

default prices are only for future things. you have to use bulk change to remove the rest. and yes you should be charging more for a card. people frame these things. your not competing with hallmark so you can jack them up on a single. the bulk cards you can be conservative on.

---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

I've never been clear on what to charge for a single card. I know you charge more, Mike, but that seems reasonable for your work. I've got mine at $5.95 which is about the most I'd pay for a card anywhere. Is there a consensus on what our markup should be?

Per Mike's suggestions elsewhere, I price my greeting cards as 5X7s except in the cases where I have actually made greeting cards with text and are clearly identifiable as such

I treat mine like they're a small print.

i charge $15 (what i get). but for the bulk cards its like $3 and 2.50 i think. they sell fine. you have to not see them as a card, you have to see them as a small print. the print size here, is only a 1" difference. they buy and frame them. its not like a card you get at walmart or hallmark. the card should be a bit under the smallest print size.

all i know is when i get a Fine art order #5423524 it has to be more than a dollar.



---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

i hesitate to buy a card for $6.00 myself. i'd rather just fold a piece of wrapping paper and say - here ya go, insert name here, sign here.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

I'm with you, Mike. Has to be a really special card for a REALLY special person for me to shell out 6 bucks. The wrapping paper idea is great because then you can honestly say you made the card yourself and it's one-of-a-kind.

I recycle everything I can but just used a brand-new (because it has frogs and the birthday girl likes frogs) store-bought gift bag to put a present in, the kind of bag with a coordinating fold-over gift tag on the handle. I didn't write anything on the tag and was careful not to wrinkle the bag because I'm hoping it will be re-used if it still looks new.

usually its cheapest to just get cards at a garage sale when you see them. and if your really cheap, you can just cross out the event and add your own. like my brother got for his christening... slash that out, graduation.

you can probably reuse the same card over and over until you run out of space.

---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Mine sell singles for $13.33, so I make around $10 a card I think. If people buy 25 then they are buying them as cards and I only make $17.50 on a 25 pack.

I don't sell many cards nor care to. I have them priced at $8.95 for a single card which gives me $5.00 profit and $39.50 for a set of 10 cards which gives me $19.50. Last month however I had my biggest card sale with a customer buying 3 - 25 card sets at $75.00 a set which gave me $112.50 in profit. That was nice!

Hi Sugar Mountain, Not that it is any business of mine, but I echo the thoughts of a couple above: Why limit yourself to cards? Most, if not all of your images, would make nice prints. Add some keywords and descriptions so you can found.

Best of luck.

all the images are too small for prints, and some are a bit soft. the best would be a small print. they need to be a bit larger. however if you only sell cards your limited to like 10 keywords.

---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Mike is, of course, correct. Those images are pretty small. What are you shooting with? A decent camera will make a world of difference. This does not take thousands, but you need minimally 5000 pixels wide. More is better.

You have a good eye. Get a tool that can help you tell the world what you see

I have no problem selling greeting cards. I try to keep the individual price up but the packages prices down to discourage individual card sales.

I do find it interesting that a whole lot of people are asking $25, $30, $35 and higher for an 8 x 5 inch print but only $5.99 - $7.99 for the 5x7 card.

Figure that on a united inch bases and it is; 50 Cents per united inch for the 5 x 7; and $2 per united inch for the 5.xx X 8 prints. That is a 400% markup for only 1.38 united inches.

That sort of encourages people to NOT buy the print and buy the note card instead.

I price my cards as cards and not small prints, knowing full well that some people will frame them. To avoid competing with my own prints I don't offer prints smaller than 10".

i offer all sizes of prints because many do frame those. and they may only have space on the wall for a small size. the card they have to get framed, the print can come with one done already. i've often seen a tiny print in a huge frame... which is a bummer for me of course, but a sale is a sale. i'd much rather sell the print over the card though. but if they want to get a dozen different cards from me, i won't stop them.

---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

The last thing the experienced sellers here want to sell is a card. Its probably the item with the least potential for profit margin.

I price single cards high, more reasonable for a box.

Hi All, thanks very much for your help and advice ( Cynthia Decker, the bulk edit was just what I was looking for, thanks so much ). Many of my photos are too small for large prints, as Mike noted. For now, I'm hoping to make a few pennies selling sets of cards to friends and family (etc), to purchase a camera that will get me on my way to bigger and better shots. I'm working with just a Canon PowerShot SC 260 HS right now, Bill.

it will take you a long time and a lot of cards to earn enough for a camera. they don't sell that often, this site isn't set up for cards. other places sell them easier. in a year i may sell like 10 cards. i've sold them in packs though, you can get the money from that - if they sell at that. mostly people buy cards not for the picture but for the words in the cards. and you can't do that on this site.


---Mike Savad
http://www.MikeSavad.com

Sugar Mountain Studio -- May I suggest you share your beautiful work with several of the groups here on Pixels/FAA that concentrate on greeting cards.

Here is my thread about groups http://pixels.com/showmessages.php?messageid=2715314

I admire your creativity and determination to sell your art with what you have. You are correct, that pennies make dollars and perfecting your goal each day without changing your goal will reach success that you are looking for.


Personally, I price my cards as retail and my prints as art and it seems to work.

Thanks for the encouragement Frank, and I will look into these groups. I appreciate your help. Take Care.