- Conduct Greeting Card Market Research
- The largest segment of the greeting card market is seasonal cards for holidays like Christmas, Valentine’s Day, and Mother’s Day.
- Greeting card prices can vary from 50 cents to more than $10 – with a price point for every consumer and sending occasion.
- Choose your niche
- Write a business plan
- Apply for licenses, permits, and insurance
- Find a spot to sell your cards
- Obtain small business funding
- Order and manage your supplies
- The market for greeting cards generates $7.5 billion in revenue each year.
- American consumers buy about 6.5 billion greeting cards every year.
- The global Greeting Cards market is estimated to be worth US$ 7508.8 million in 2022. It is expected to reach a value of US$ 6530.4 million by 2028.
- The global greeting card market is forecast to be worth $6530.4 million by 2028, leaving plenty of room for independent sellers to enter the industry.
There are five methods you can use to make and sell greeting cards on the web:
- Upload designs to print-on-demand sites like Zazzle
- Sell handcrafted cards on Etsy or another marketplace
- Build a website to sell your cards
- Sell messages and designs to existing greeting card companies
- Fulfill custom greeting card requests on freelance sites