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Cards for Causes Featured in Fitness Magazine

admin — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:10:42 +0000

All of us at Cards for Causes are thrilled that Fitness Magazine has featured us in the “Fitlife” section of the November/December 2011 issue. This is just the type of exposure that will allow us to generate significantly larger donations to all kinds of deserving charities nationwide as we move closer to our goal of donating $1 Million dollars to non-profits nationwide. We want to make a world a better place whether we are helping an animal, educational, environmental or health-related, or other worthy cause.

You can check out the piece at the following link: http://www.cardsforcauses.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Cards-for-Causes-Fitness-Magazine-11-12-2011.jpg

Cards for Causes Donates 110,000 meals to help America’s Hunger Problem

admin — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:18:05 +0000

We were recently contacted by Feeding America to let us know that our donations to date had provided over 110,000 meals to people who need help. In reviewing all of the hunger related charities that we have donated to, we discovered that the number of meals we have provided is over 200,000, thanks to our customer’s orders. We are thrilled that we have been able to help so significantly and we look forward to making more donations to hunger related as well as the other charities in our database. Our goal continues to be donations of $1,000,000 or more to charities nationwide.

Here is a link to the article:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cards-for-causes-donates-110000-meals-to-feeding-america-127445818.html

Business Thank You Cards

admin — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:18:59 +0000

Business Thank You Letters & Notes: The Importance of Showing Gratitude

By Mike Capuzzi

In this day and age where everybody is looking for the next shiny object to improve business, there is a simple solution available to every business owner and entrepreneur that can have an immediate and positive effect on your business! And get this, EVERYBODY reading this can implement and use this strategy in their business today!

It’s expressing your appreciation and gratitude to friends, customers, clients, and colleagues by sending handwritten thank you notes.

When was the last time that you wrote or received a handwritten thank you note?

Remember how it made you feel? This is the emotional connection you want to make with your prospects and customers!

Taking 5-10 minutes out of your day to send a handwritten thank you letter and sending it via the Postal Service seems to have become an anomaly in today’s world as our inboxes are constantly clogged with the next sale, promotion, or reminder.

Today, when 99% of people complain of too many emails, text messages, advertisements and intrusions, NOBODY is complaining about receiving too many personalized thank you notes or letters!

Showing that you are grateful can help attract new clients, customers, associates, or JV partners. It can easily improve the relationships you have with existing clients, customers, or partners and reduce any negative or doubtful emotions people may have about you or your company.

I know business owners who use thank you cards as a primary marketing strategy and the results are phenomenal! Who doesn’t like to be appreciated and thought of?

Gratitude is an extremely powerful emotion you should be tapping into regularly and while there are many generic ways and services to send a thank you, I like the personal touch of a handwritten custom thank you card because it allows the reader to connect with you on an emotional level.

When should you send out a business thank you?

* When you get a new client/customer
* When an existing client/customer gives you a new project
* When someone who makes a referral to your company
* When a peer who gives you helpful advice
* As a follow-up after a meeting or phone call
* For a job well done by an employee, vendor, or associate
* When someone shows you a kindness

Thank you letter and note tips:

Consider making your own personal and custom card
Use a “tent” design for more real-estate and allow them to stand up
Use CopyDoodles® for a personalized look
Handwrite your message
Timing is important – make sure you send out your thank you as soon as possible

Sales and advertising will always have its place within online and offline business marketing, but using thank you notes as a relationship-based strategy is essential to long-term success for entrepreneurs and business owners.

Mike Capuzzi is a marketing strategist, author and speaker. Since 1998, he has been helping entrepreneurs and business owners improve their marketing and response rates. He’s the inventor of CopyDoodles, the highly acclaimed software for adding handwritten notes and hand-drawn doodles to your marketing for increased readability and response. Visit www.MikeCapuzzi.com for more tips and ideas.

Make Every Day Earth Day

admin — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:48:43 +0000

Happy Earth Day!
Here are just a few, easy to do suggestions to make every day Earth Day:
- Take shorter showers
- Turn off tap water while brushing your teeth
- Bring your own reusable shopping bags to stores
- Change out your light bulbs to more energy-efficient bulbs
- Get a home energy audit and make the changes suggested
- Keep electronics out of the trash – donate or recycle when no longer usable
- Donate to an environmental charity

How to offset declining loyalty and morale

admin — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:52:04 +0000

With employee loyalty at a 3 year low, don’t forget these simple acts that can help boost employee morale. Your employees want to feel appreciated and remebered and these thoughtful and cost effective measures can help.

Don’t forget to:

Recognize your employee’s length of service with a small celebration and include a anniversary card.
Make employees feel special by remembering their birthday.
Show your employees you appreciate their efforts with a thank you card or a congratulations card for a job well done.

Here is a link to a recent article which outlines the issues.

Cards for Causes Makes Donation to Local No-Kill Shelter

admin — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:19:54 +0000

We visited the League for Animal Welfare this week to give them our donation check for our Facebook promotion which ended on 12/13/10.

Jennifer gave us a tour of their facility and we met many of the dedicated volunteers that work there caring for the dogs and cats as well as working with families who hope to adopt a pet. We were happy to present them with a check for the equivalent of 220 meals in appreciation of our customers coming to our Facebook page and hitting the “Like” button.

I hope that all of you that are pet owners take the opportunity to seek out a ‘No Kill” Shelter in your communities and support them with a donation or with your time as a volunteer.

Charity Cards – Women Donate More to Charity

admin — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:52:22 +0000

When it comes to donating to charity, the war of the sexes is being won by females, hands down. In a recent article in USA Today, women are more likely to give, and in four of five income groups reviewed, they give more than men do — sometimes twice as much, according to the study by the Women’s Philanthropy Institute at Indiana University’s Center on Philanthropy. Let’s go guys, we have some catching up to do!

Charity Christmas Cards – Charities need help this holiday season

admin — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 22:05:31 +0000

Here is a reprint of a recent article showing that the economy is taking its toll on charitable donations. Let your holiday card purchase do double duty so charities can continue their good works.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) — Donations to the U.S. biggest charities dropped sharply last year, as people appeared to be less generous in a still struggling economy, according to a new report released on Sunday.

Donations to the nation’s biggest charities dropped 11 percent last year, a decline that was the worst in the two decades since the Chronicle of Philanthropy, a biweekly newspaper that covers the nonprofit world, started its Philanthropy 400 ranking of the organizations that raise the most from private sources.

The drop in contributions was nearly four times as great as the next biggest annual decrease: 2.8 percent in 2001, when charities also struggled to raise money from recession-battered donors, said the report.

The 400 institutions in the survey raised a total of 68.6 billion dollars in 2009. The median amount raised by charities on the Philanthropy 400 also declined last year to 98.8 million dollars, down from 105 million dollars in 2008.

The case for 2010 is not expected to get much better, as the recovery remains sluggish and the unemployment rate is still near 10 percent, according to the report.

People give more to charity when they are happy!

admin — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:56:53 +0000

The “World Giving Index”, the largest study ever carried out into charitable behaviour across the globe, which ranked the UK the eighth most charitable nation in the world, has found that happier people are more likely to give money to charity than those who are wealthy.

To read the entire article and to see where the United States ranks in the World Giving Index, click here.

Facebook- Help us Feed Four Legged Friends

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:12:26 +0000

Help us support our four legged friends! Cards for Causes will donate a bowl of food to The League for Animal Welfare, a local no kill animal shelter for every new person who “Likes” us on facebook until the end of the year. Just click here “Facebook Friends”. Help spread the word – Tell all your facebook friends, so they can help us support our animal friends in need.