Tips for Creating Corporate Christmas Cards

Christmas is a few months down the road, but when you have a business to run, it is important to start thinking about your Christmas cards early. The first thing you need to consider is your intended audience. Are these cards going to be for employees, investors, clients, or partners? If you know your intended receiver personally then you probably know whether or not they celebrate Christmas. I have encountered many people in my professional life who do not celebrate Christmas and some that do not celebrate any holidays during our typical holiday season. You need to be especially sensitive if you know that you might have one of these people receiving your card and you will need to stick with a simple "Seasons Greetings" or "Happy Holidays" in this instance. You also will need to keep this in mind when you are composing a message for the inside of your card.

Making Your Own Cards from Scratch
If you want an entirely personalized Christmas card to send out, you will have to create the entire design, pictures, message, and print them out yourself. Microsoft Publisher has card templates for you to design your own card with and the Microsoft website has detailed instructions here on how to do so step by step. This will allow you to personalize every aspect of your card and even print it yourself.

Designing Your Own Cards, Kind Of
A Christmas card is a great way to get the name of your business hanging up in someone's home for a month or so. Make sure it is worthy of being up on that wall and that it portrays your business in the way that you would like. Ugly Christmas cards are usually overlooked so if you have someone who could do a great graphic design job for your Christmas cards, utilize them. If you wanted to make your card really personal, you could take a photo of the outside of your building if it is an excellent display of architecture or you could have a professional group photo of your office staff taken for the card.

Tiny Prints has a great selection of cards that are specifically for businesses. They allow you to upload your logo or a photo to use on the cards and customize your message, font, and colors. They also carry a variety of different types of Christmas cards for you to choose from. Their designs are really great and along with your photo or logo I think that their cards would reflect extremely well on your business.

Being Politically Correct
I am going to repeat what I said earlier about how important it is to know your audience and to send "Happy Holidays" and "Seasons Greetings" cards if a Christmas card is not appropriate for everyone you will be mailing a card to. Try to be as politically correct as possible. This will be easy if you are using Tiny Prints that I mentioned before because they have suggested messages that are politically correct and designed specifically for business use. Keep in mind that this is a card that most likely be displayed in someone's home for approximately a month. Make sure the message that you put across is family friendly and remember that a Christmas card is not the appropriate medium for jokes.