8th May 2002Free E-Greeting Card Site Set to Rival Blue Mountain(Vancouver, BC) What's Canadian grown, defies the odds, and beautiful to behold? www.OwlGreetings.ca, that's what.This home-grown, free e-greeting card site launched by CareerOwl Institute, a leading edge, e-recruiting service has achieved phenomenal success in a few short months. At a time when people are contemplating marketing strategies that do not rely heavily on dot.com businesses, OwlGreetings.ca bucks the trend. OwlGreetings President and University of Alberta Business School professor Alice Nakamura explains: โ€œThe students and grads using www.
CareerOwl.ca told us they wanted a free e-greeting card site that didn't rely on invasive advertising. Our intent was to create a user-friendly site that would allow people to electronically send greeting cards of the highest quality.โ€The site allows users to combine a selected photo art image with a wide selection of background colors, decorative borders for the card, and different fonts that can be used for the message added by the user. The site also allows users to upload their, Greeting Cards Products, own digital photo images for use along with the other features of the e-greeting card site.
Telfer Maynard, the webmaster for the site, says that nearly 30,000 cards have been created and sent since the February launch. โ€œWe had to go out and buy more powerful equipment to meet the demand,โ€ says Maynard, โ€œbut with a high powered server in place now, we're ready for the world to sign on come Mother's Day!โ€Nakamura says that current figures indicate over 1,000 cards are being created and sent per day. The secret to its success, she, Greeting Cards Products, says, is a combination of simple, easy-to-use technology and stunning photographs.
She adds: โ€œIt's quite rare to see such high quality photographic images used in a web-based environment for greeting cards. Whereas other providers go for the gadgets and the animation, our photographer, Theresa Pugh, creates mini works of art. This is what people respond to.โ€- Ends -For more information, please contact: Telfer Maynard, Executive Director, CareerOwlTelephone: 604-266-9740 or e-mail: telf@careerowl.caNote to Editors:The site itself is provided by the CareerOwl Institute which also runs www.
CareerOwl.ca, a leading edge, e-recruiting service open to all, but with special features to facilitate recruiting for the highly qualified. Canadian university faculty members donated their private funds and volunteered their expertise to found this service which helps to connect Canadian employers conveniently and cost effectively with the students and graduates their tax dollars helped to train.The photo images that can be used for creating cards on this site are the original photo art of Vancouver born Theresa Pugh (http://www.