# What's the best way to start an ecard business?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-start-an-ecard-business/408893>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 21, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-start-an-ecard-business/408893 "2007-06-21T19:31:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![winneee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a88e4f/32.png) [@winneee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/winneee)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-start-an-ecard-business/408893/1 "2007-06-21T19:31:49Z")

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Hi all,

A friend of mine is interested in starting her own ecard business (she wants to write and design the cards herself, not offer pre-existing compilations of clip-art, etc.) and cannot seem to find out where to get started. Is this something that she should go do a web designer for?

Any advice for her would be greatly appreciated!

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**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-start-an-ecard-business/408893/3 "2011-03-10T21:48:03Z")

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Reported as possible spam. And that was before I noticed this is a zombie thread.

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**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-start-an-ecard-business/408893/4 "2011-03-11T04:16:40Z")

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Thanks, **Oakminster**. It looked like spam to me too, and this opinion was borne out by further research.

I’m closing this zombie down as it doesn’t seem to do much but attract spammers. If you all want to talk about greeting cards, a new thread would be best.

(BTW in case anyone’s confused, the spam post which was reported has been removed. The OP is fine.)