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OK, so now you know you need an ecard section on your site. What do you need next?
Content: Custom content: If you have a larger budget you can have an well-known artist create custom animated ecards for you. On average, a Flash animated ecard costs $350. Leased content: A much cheaper way to obtain high quality content is to use
services of a company like Cardsup Greetings (http://www.cardsup.com). Their ecards have been used by such sites as Yahoo Greetings, Regards.com, ecards.com, etc. For a very reasonable price you will get:
GREAT CONTENT for your existing web site, made by some of
best animators/cartoonists in
business. TIMELY UPDATES -- you will receive monthly Flash ecards! Each month you will get from 5 to 30 additional ecards at no cost. SCREENSAVERS -- you will receive all additional animations as screensavers too, and you will be able to sell them to your customers.
Ecards software: There are a lot of very good ecard programs on
Internet. I highly recommend
following:
- MyPostCards Platinum (http://mypostcards.com/platinum/) - ECardsPro price U$299 (http://www.ecardspro.com/) - Greeting Card PRO price U$249 (http://www.greetingcardpro.com/) - Greeting Cards Pro price U$249 (http://www.all-yours.net/software/)
Web Hosting: If you do not have a web host for your site, be sure to check out Fullservehost.com (http://www.fullservehost.com). They have plans for ecard sites owners that come with card software.
