Punchbowl Blog

This post was written by Stephanie Fader, Sr. Marketing Manager

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about our beautiful digital greeting cards for the holidays. Our digital holiday cards offer the ability to send a thoughtful holiday greeting online that has the look and feel of a traditional paper card. And what could be more fitting for the holiday season than the flat holiday photo cards that have become increasingly popular over the last few years? Now you can send those cards online with the look and feel of the traditional holiday cards that we all know and love!

Check out a few of the new digital holiday cards, which can be customized with one or multiple photos!

While the cards above are Plus designs and require a membership, there is a huge selection of free eCards for Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year’s and general Season’s Greetings. For those who want to send a beautiful holiday photo card this season, here’s a special offer for 30% off a membership good through the end of this week! Just enter the code PBCARD3 at checkout by Friday, December 16, 2011. See membership options now.

The response to our digital holiday cards has been fantastic so I wanted to share some feedback we’ve received through social media:

“I adore, no, love your site. Thank you for making ecards so much fun!!” - Deborah L. via Facebook

“Very attractive, classy cards.” - Jo S. via Facebook

“Punchbowl makes it easy and fun to stay in touch with your digital cards!” - Chelsea W. via Facebook

“Very cool digital cards.” - @LibbyKane via Twitter

“I recommend @punchbowl for digital greeting cards. Classy, great stationery and free.” - @leahlizross via Twitter

“Punchbowl is a fabulous online card tool, highly recommended!” - @as_dalton via Twitter

Have you sent holiday cards yet? There’s still plenty of time to send free digital holiday cards this year to everyone on your list!

This post was written by Matt Douglas, Founder & CEO, @mattdouglas

Over the last few years Punchbowl has partnered with several media and retail companies, including Oriental Trading Company, 1-800-FLOWERS, and Lifetime. I’m very pleased to announce our latest partnership: Punchbowl has signed a technology-licensing agreement with RealSimple.com. This is a substantial deal for both companies, and enables RealSimple.com users to send and receive Digital Greeting Cards. We’re excited to bring our digital cards to Real Simple users in time for the holiday season.

Here’s the full announcement:

Real Simple Partners with Punchbowl to Offer Free Digital Greetings

Framingham, MA, December 2, 2011 – Today, Punchbowl.com, the leader in start to finish party planning and digital greeting cards, announced a technology-licensing agreement with best-selling women’s lifestyle brand Real Simple. The partnership will allow RealSimple.com users to send beautiful, free digital greeting cards for all occasions. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

“We’re excited to add Real Simple as one of our key partners,” said Matt Douglas, CEO, Punchbowl. “The brand wanted to offer their customers a best-in-class digital cards service, and we were able to deliver with our new Digital Greeting Cards technology.”

Digital Greeting Cards on RealSimple.com offer the ability to send thoughtful well-wishes online that have the look and feel of a traditional paper card. They are a suitable alternative to traditional greeting cards complete with attractive folded designs, matching envelopes, realistic postmarks, and the complete mail-opening experience. Additionally, cards can be personalized with accents such as envelope liners, custom postage, and rubber stamps. Digital Greeting Cards are ideal for birthdays, special occasions, life milestones and holidays such as Christmas and New Year’s.

“Partnering with Punchbowl was a natural fit for Real Simple,” said Shannon King, General Manager, RealSimple.com. “Readers turn to Real Simple for inspiring ideas and practical solutions particularly around holidays and entertaining this time of year, and Punchbowl provides a premium Digital Greeting Card service which we feel fits perfectly within that strategy.”

Punchbowl has received critical acclaim and industry recognition for its usability and simplicity. The award-winning site is a leading destination for start to finish party planning and digital greeting cards. In addition to Real Simple, Punchbowl has several other licensing agreements in place with leading media and retail companies.

To send free Digital Greeting Cards on Real Simple, visit: https://greetingcards.realsimple.com

This post was written by Stephanie Fader, Sr. Marketing Manager

Earlier this fall, we introduced our new Digital Greeting Cards service - a suitable alternative to traditional paper greeting cards complete with folded designs, matching envelopes, realistic postmarks, and the complete mail-opening experience. We’ve received wonderful feedback about Digital Greeting Cards so far and we’re just getting started.

Free holiday eCards, for example, are a wonderful way to send warm thoughts to family and friends during the busy winter season. Families can write a personal message, modify text colors and fonts, and upload their own photo to create a truly personalized digital greeting. Winter holiday categories include Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year, and Season’s Greetings.

As for more immediate card-sending occasions, there are also digital greeting card categories for Veteran’s Day eCards (Friday, Nov. 11) and Thanksgiving eCards (Thursday, Nov. 24). Simply choose a design, edit your message, and send your well-wishes to as many people as you like - free!

Need to send cards for another occasion? Check out our selection of digital greeting cards for birthdays, announcements, occasions, everyday, and care and concern. Browse all of our free eCard categories now and let us know what you think on our Facebook page!

This post was written by Stephanie Fader, Sr. Marketing Manager

Remembering the specific birthdays of all of your dear friends and family members can be tough, especially during the busy fall and holiday seasons. For those of us who are more forgetful, however, there are still ways to stay on top of important dates and celebrate them with a heartfelt gesture.

For Punchbowl customer Betsy D., this has been a familiar predicament and she recently shared her experience with us. Betsy has been a long-time customer of Punchbowl and says that our Reminders service has saved her on many an occasion when she forgot until the last minute to send a card. Most recently this happened on her best friend’s birthday. When Betsy received the email reminder from us she did what she always does — she visited the site to send a free eCard to her friend. However, what Betsy found surprised her.

When Betsy arrived at the site to send a card, she was prompted to “create a digital card.” She had not yet seen our new Digital Greeting Cards service, a way to send thoughtful well-wishes online that have the look and feel of traditional greeting cards. Betsy, who has followed our site improvements over the years, was intrigued and started to explore the options from the card designs and categories to the envelope liners and custom postage. She was so thrilled with Digital Greeting Cards that she was compelled to write to tell us!

Betsy says, “To be able to customize the card so much, make it really like an actual card you’d send in the mail with the envelope and everything…it’s terrific! I absolutely love it!”

Thanks for your feedback, Betsy. We’re so happy we could help you celebrate!

Do you need a way to keep track of all the birthdays, holidays and anniversaries in your life? Try our free Reminders service to build your list and we’ll make sure you never miss another special occasion. Also, if you haven’t tried out our new Digital Greeting Cards service, browse free eCards now!