Although it is not as popular as it once was to send out Christmas Cards or Holiday Cards to your clients and customers many businesses still send out cards during the holiday season. This means a Christmas Card or Holiday Card Business can be very good business for someone to start.

You can start a custom design business for holiday greeting cards for small businesses and corporations. If you are good with the computer and like graphic design you might find yourself in a business that is very enjoyable. Or perhaps you can hire a graphic artist and you are a very good salesperson and still it is the business is very enjoyable business not to mention something that is much needed.

It does not cost much to start a Christmas Card or holiday greetings card business because you have no cost involved until the customer orders the product and generally most printing companies, copy stores and typesetters normally charge the customer 40 percent in advance. Generally in the holiday greeting card business your basic costs are about 40 percent and if the customer pays in advance you have no out-of-pocket costs, thus positive cash flow from day one.

You will of course have other costs in making the sale and traveling to the customer's location to deliver the cards and other basic costs that any normal business would have but the most part your hard costs will be paid by the customer in advanced, which means your cash flow will remain in a very good position.

Once you familiarize yourself with the printing costs, the styles available and various options and set up the relationship with a local printing shop you will have all the tools you need to start offering holiday greeting cards.

Best of all it is a good business you can start and run from your home without a whole lot of capital, a huge business plan or trying to convince the bank to fund a loan so you can start a small business of your own. Perhaps you can consider this in 2006 but you need to start before the end of September because that's when corporations and small businesses start thinking about greeting cards for the holiday season and you will need time to produce an excellent product.

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