When it comes to showing someone you care on a birthday, holiday or anniversary, you probably find yourself looking at the array of greeting cards available at the local store. It can be frustrating from time to time as you look at card after card and think to yourself that you could have come up with the same idea or even a better one. If you have some ideas for greeting card verses or design, you should try to sell the rights to a greeting card company. Perhaps someday soon someone will be purchasing your greeting card.
Instructions
1. Write down your greeting card design ideas as you think of them. It will be a good idea to keep a pad and paper around you at all times so you can keep track of your ideas. You may also want to spend a certain period of time just sitting down and brainstorming different ideas until you have one or more that you think have a lot of promise.
2. Read up on the submission guidelines for the different greeting card companies. Different card companies have different needs that they are looking for, and you would be wasting your time to send a humorous one-liner card to a company that wants sentimental poetry of 20 lines or more. You can find information about many of the different greeting card companies at writerswrite.com.
3. Choose which of your materials to send to which greeting card company based on the guidelines provided. Keep in mind the turnaround time for submission materials so you will know how long you can expect to wait for a response. Follow the greeting card company's specific instructions for submitting your materials. If you do not abide by a company's submission requirements, it may not read your submission at all.
4. Wait to hear back from the greeting card company once you have submitted your materials. Most companies are inundated with submissions from prospective writers and do not want to be bothered about submissions, so it will be a good idea to exercise some patience.
5. Review the contract if you are sent one. If the company is interested in purchasing the rights to your greeting card design, it will send you a contract in the mail. Read over the contract, make sure you agree with the payment terms and sign it to give over exclusive rights of your greeting card design. Mail the signed contract back to the greeting card company.
