selling greeting cards, a quick question?

Question

I have a few greeting cards I would like to try to get into stores, how do I go about doing this?

Answer 1

You can do it the hard way and start knocking on every store you want to carry your cards.

Or you can contact sales representatives and distributors that help greeting card creators get their products into stores

Greeting Card Association http://www.greetingcard.org/index.html which is the trade organization of the greeting card and stationary publishers has listings of sales representatives and distributors in the industry http://www.greetingcard.org/resources_pubs.html -- which is a critical resource for all those who want to start this type of business. The website also lists a directory of greeting card publishers http://www.greetingcard.org/gca_publishermembers.html that those who wish to create greeting cards can contact

Answer 2

You could visit the store owners, show them samples, and ask if they'd be interesting in carrying them. But chances aren't good - most stores with greeting card departments have a contract with one of the major greeting card companies to provide their cards.