With so many people receiving and giving anonymous Valentines cards, could personalized valentine e-cards be the next big thing? Personalized poetry and card site Poetry Occasions certainly hope so, having just launched the long-awaited valentines e-card range. Liam Bailey, the Man behind Poetry Occasions gave me the skinny on the new range:
"So many people write their own additional verses into valentines cards, but the verses are so tired, roses are red and such like, Poetry Occasions e-card, like their print counterparts, will each have a personalized poem, based on information provided by the buyer making it a unique and truly special love poem -- certain to have sweethearts melting. Offices and workplaces immediately spring to mind, people could order a valentines e-card, with a personalized short love poem on the back, and have it sent to a secret crush(es) in their workplace."
The great thing is the cards are free, people pay only for the verse and the price therefore depends on the size of verse they choose: £3.99 for a small 4 line verse, £7.49 for a medium 8 line verse and £8.99 for a large 12 line verse. The e-cards will be sent as a html attachment, with a link in the email body to the e-card published on-line in case the recipient is untrusting of unsolicited attachments. Upon opening or visiting the card online, first the front will be seen, with the greeting entered by the buyer as well as the recipients name. After a short while the card flips over to reveal the personalized poem written especially for the recipient.
Valentines e-cards are available right now, and the range will be extended to cover all occasions in the coming weeks and months. Printed personalized Valentine cards are also available at Poetry Occasions, as well as personalized birthday cards, anniversary cards and congratulations cards, again the range will be extended in the coming weeks.
About Poetry Occasions
Poetry Occasions gives customers the unique opportunity of commissioning a published poet to write a personalised verse for them, be it a small, medium or large verse for them to write into a card bought elsewhere, or a card bought from Poetry Occasions, or a framed personalised gift poem.
Media enquiries should go to: press@poetry-occasions.co.uk
Friday 25 January 2008
Sunday 13 January 2008
Published Liam Bailey Poems: Your Child
Who can right the terrible wrong?
Of a child brought up, with anything but love.
Ease the suffering, pain, and sadness
Of a child brought up, with any of the above.
A child being born is a joy, to behold.
A child being born is a boy, to be held.
Given constant care and a toy, to be told
What is right and how to behave, good as gold.
When he starts to shave
He should know how to behave.
Right from wrong,
He might never catch on.
Your time has been well spent,
If he goes to the grave at a ripe old age
Still behaving like a gent.
Though you've been wasting your time
If he dies in a cage
Locked up for a terrible crime.
This was one of the first poems Liam Bailey wrote, and his first to be published in print. Read more recent poetry on the Poetry Occasions Samples page.
Of a child brought up, with anything but love.
Ease the suffering, pain, and sadness
Of a child brought up, with any of the above.
A child being born is a joy, to behold.
A child being born is a boy, to be held.
Given constant care and a toy, to be told
What is right and how to behave, good as gold.
When he starts to shave
He should know how to behave.
Right from wrong,
He might never catch on.
Your time has been well spent,
If he goes to the grave at a ripe old age
Still behaving like a gent.
Though you've been wasting your time
If he dies in a cage
Locked up for a terrible crime.
This was one of the first poems Liam Bailey wrote, and his first to be published in print. Read more recent poetry on the Poetry Occasions Samples page.
Wednesday 2 January 2008
Poetry Occasions Enters the E-card Market
From January 10 onwards E-cards will be on offer at personalised poetry site: Poetry Occasions. The new product is an extension to the card verses range, now customers can have the cards sent to them by email as before, or from the same form in the e-cards section, after choosing the e-card design they like, can give someone else's email address and have the verse sent to them as an e-card.
E-cards are available in the same range as card verses, that is containing a small four line verse, a medium eight line verse and a large twelve line verse. What customers will perhaps be most surprised by is the fact that there is no price increase; e-cards can be sent to the customer's chosen recipient, for the exact same price as a card verse only.
Poetry Occasions proprietor Liam Bailey said: "as more and more of us turn to the computer instead of the high-street for almost every aspect of our lives, the upturn in the new e-card phenomenon was only logical. It suddenly struck me as silly to be selling card verses to be delivered by email and written into cards, without giving people to have the verse sent to their loved one by email, encapsulated in a nice e-card."
The new products are part of a new site launch and a professional redesign for the site. Depending on negotiations with various print firms personalised cards will also be available from January 10, though unlike many competitors, on the inside the cards will each have a well written personalised verse, written especially for the recipient.
Some of the e-card designs in the pipeline are nothing short of spectacular, well; they had to be so as not to detract from the new design and functionality of the site as a whole. The existing product range will still be available, including four verse gift poems.
The new focus on cards is in preparation for the Valentines rush, in response to numerous customers enquiring if they could have their Poetry Occasions Christmas card verse sent by post in a personalised card. Fed up with turning away trade Poetry Occasions had to enter the card market.
Find out more at: http://www.poetry-occasions.co.uk
About Poetry Occasions
Poetry Occasions is a breath of fresh air in the personalised gift and card market, not least in the fact that the prices are by far lower than any of the competition. The samples available on the site show that the lower prices are not because the quality is any lower.
For any further information, to request an interview and/or editorial details email press@poetry-occasions.co.uk
E-cards are available in the same range as card verses, that is containing a small four line verse, a medium eight line verse and a large twelve line verse. What customers will perhaps be most surprised by is the fact that there is no price increase; e-cards can be sent to the customer's chosen recipient, for the exact same price as a card verse only.
Poetry Occasions proprietor Liam Bailey said: "as more and more of us turn to the computer instead of the high-street for almost every aspect of our lives, the upturn in the new e-card phenomenon was only logical. It suddenly struck me as silly to be selling card verses to be delivered by email and written into cards, without giving people to have the verse sent to their loved one by email, encapsulated in a nice e-card."
The new products are part of a new site launch and a professional redesign for the site. Depending on negotiations with various print firms personalised cards will also be available from January 10, though unlike many competitors, on the inside the cards will each have a well written personalised verse, written especially for the recipient.
Some of the e-card designs in the pipeline are nothing short of spectacular, well; they had to be so as not to detract from the new design and functionality of the site as a whole. The existing product range will still be available, including four verse gift poems.
The new focus on cards is in preparation for the Valentines rush, in response to numerous customers enquiring if they could have their Poetry Occasions Christmas card verse sent by post in a personalised card. Fed up with turning away trade Poetry Occasions had to enter the card market.
Find out more at: http://www.poetry-occasions.co.uk
About Poetry Occasions
Poetry Occasions is a breath of fresh air in the personalised gift and card market, not least in the fact that the prices are by far lower than any of the competition. The samples available on the site show that the lower prices are not because the quality is any lower.
For any further information, to request an interview and/or editorial details email press@poetry-occasions.co.uk
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