Over the past year or so I've been hearing about a service whereby you could quickly and easily send a customized greeting card to your family members, friends, and/or business associates. Well earlier this week I finally had the opportunity to give the service a try. It's called Send Out Cards and that's what it does for you- send out cards!

Diane Ogden is my representative who gave me a personal demonstration by sending me a card following meeting me at the Soiree. I was impressed and spent the next couple of hours having fun learning the system and creating some super fine custom cards for a few "special" friends of mine.

Send Out Cards has a very wide selection of cards (something like 8,000) covering many categories such as:

Apologies, Congratulations, Get Well, Good Bye/Good Luck , Love, Nice to Meet You, Sympathy, Thank You, Welcome, Anniversary, Birthday, Engagement, Holidays, Wedding, Announcements, Friendship, Invitations, Just Because, Motivational, Thinking of You, Around the World, Blank, Calendar Cards, Formal/Executive, Patriotic, Seasonal, Series, Sports, Business, Humanitarian, Kids, Military, Music and Dance, Pets, Religious, Workplace

Send Out Cards is considerably less expensive and much more convenient and time efficient than shopping for a card at the store and hoping you find just the right one plus they are customizable with your own photos, fonts (including your own handwriting - yuk in my case!), color of fonts and alignments such as justified or centered. All the tools to make an outstanding card!

Send Out Cards provides an easy to use Card Manager Page where you drive the system. One of the best features is the Contact Manager whereby you can load your contacts information and then simply click on those you want to send a card to and their address information will automatically be loaded. You then click the 'send card' button and it takes you to the card catalogue where you have an enormous selection of cards from which to select. You are simply selecting the outside look of the card. The inside look is up to you! There are three card formats to choose from including a post card, a bi-fold and a tri-fold.

You have the ability to send out one customized card at a time or you can set up groups and send out the same card to everyone in your group. This grouping comes in handy for business announcements or holiday's where you want to reach many with the same message.

There is also a reminder function you can set to remind you of someone's birthday or anniversary (better not forget those!).

I highly recommend you give it a try but be careful because it can be addictive! Go to www.sendoutcards.com/personaltouch to get started and then come to the Soiree and meet Diane who can answer any questions you may have.

It is with great pleasure that Diane Ogden of Send Out Cards, will be my Special Guest this week. Please plan on joining us to socialize and meet new friends.

Thanks all.