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Make Your Own Postcards

Thinking of a great idea for a new Internet-based business is not easy to do. There are millions of sites out there already and pinpointing an original yet useful new product is time consuming. However, when it is developed properly, an online business can become incredibly successful and can eventually expand globally. Postcards are all the rage right now, they are fun to send and receive, and now everybody can create their own unique postcard for their friends and family. Astonishingmail LLC has created a powerful new business lead generation solution by providing an interactive Web site to create, print and mail both standard and jumbo postcards, targeted to prospects and existing customers.

This unique web site allows the business user to either create their postcards on their desktop or to use the online design tools, photo library and nationwide business and consumer mailing lists. Once the card is created, Astonishingmail.com prints in full color and mails the next business day. An example of how effective the postcards can be, a general aviation airplane dealer used a combination of company provided photos and the Astonishingmail.com library of photos to create a very attractive standard postcard and mailed to pilots that were considered prospects. The result was the sale of a brand new $600,000 airplane.

Astonishingmail has created a variety of postcard design templates that the customer can customize with either their own product photos or use the 1000?s of photos provided at no additional charge. To make the design process even easier, the customer has the option of creating the card on their own desktop and then uploading the completed card into the Astonishingmail printing and mailing process. The online templates come in either the Simple or Advanced Editing versions which provides more tools and options for the advanced user. In all cases, the cards are printed in full color on both sides, printed on heavy premium paper stock and then coated with a gloss UV coating to produce high quality postcards and jumbo postcards.