Many people think that holiday photo cards are just for the big winter-time occasions. This couldn’t be further from the truth. The fact is photo cards are ideal to send out for just about any occasion at all and some can be custom designed to fit personal needs.

Photo cards provide an excellent way to personalize greetings and send a smile in the mail, as well. These creations are fantastic for use during such big events as:

Easter – Family photos are always fun to share. People love receiving photo cards around this time of year – especially if little ones are dressed up in their Easter finest.

Halloween – What better way to share the kids’ costumes with family and friends than to create holiday photo cards to share? Special photo gifts are also great to consider with spooky, scary and funny shots.

Thanksgiving – Show the people you love just how special they are by sending photo cards out at this time of year. This provides a fun and affordable way to say “thanks” to the people in your life you appreciate the most.

Other special occasions – Photo cards can be created for just about any special occasion imaginable. They make, for example, unique thank you cards following birthdays, weddings and anniversaries. They are also fun to create and send out to family and friends on their own special days, such as graduations, weddings and more.

Photo cards are not as limited as many people think. Although they provide a very personal way to send warm winter holiday greetings, their applications go far beyond.

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The holidays – be they Christmas, Easter, or any other holiday for which families gather and photos are taken – can be a busy time of year for everyone. There are meals to prepare, clothes to purchase, houses to decorate, and a variety of activities that are both enjoyable and frenzied. It is certainly our hope that we can relax and spend time with our families without having to run in eighteen different directions; and we look for those products and services that will assist us to this end. The Internet has utterly transformed the way in which we operate on a daily basis – and this convenience has undoubtedly extended to the holidays as well.

Today, we can purchase gifts online, find household decorative items to appropriately outfit a home for the holidays, and buy clothing that suits every taste and budget. Another service that has made the holidays much easier to navigate is the availability of photo sharing sites that allow users to do everything from upload pictures onto online albums to put together memorable holiday photo cards that will commemorate the holiday throughout the year.

Photo sharing sites have become enormously popular – keeping pace with the growing popularity of the Internet. Through comprehensive sites such as these users are able to take complete control of their photos like never before – organizing them into online photo albums that can be shared with family and friends, ordering photo prints at industry low prices, creating delightful and unique photo gifts, and designing holiday photo cards that can be customized and sent within a matter of days.

Holiday photo cards, created through photo sharing sites, can make use of whatever photo the user chooses. With the addition of a personal message and even the customization of envelopes to include a return address, those purchasing holiday photo cards will find that the majority of the work has been done for them; and the end result is a truly unique and very personal holiday card with which to share with family and friends no matter what the holiday.

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After the blog comment about “it being hard to find our contact information on our website,” I wanted to follow up with some more information about Photofun so potential new customers (Photofuners) could understand who we are; where we come from and what we do.

We launched www.photofun.com on Saturday March 15, 2008 and are getting a steady stream of visitors, many of whom have signed up (to become “Photofuners”), uploaded photos and have ordered one or more of our outstanding photo-products.

To give you some background about www.photofun.com:

Photofun is a Texas based corporation, with its U.S. headquarters in Dallas, TX.

Photofun started in Hengelo, a mid-size town in The Netherlands, in 2004 and has grown to become one of the leading photo-sharing services in Europe. Photofun does business in The Netherlands as Webprint C.V. (www.webprint.nl) and as Photofun, Inc., (www.photofun.com) in the USA. For ease I will call both companies Photofun when referring to our company.

Due to our success and the quality of our product we now have millions of customers all over Europe, with thousands of new customers signing up each week.

In November of 2007 the decision was made to enter the U.S. market and now here were are!

I joined Photofun in December to head up the U.S. venture. I have been in senior management leadership positions in the printing industry for over 20 years in the USA, and more recently (for the last five years) have been in the “on-demand and personal variable data digital printing sector.” My personal philosophy when it comes to business is to service the customer to the absolute maximum, to delight them with quality, service and price, and to be a market leader. I believe strongly that the company that I lead should be the leader in the marketplace in every element; creating excitement, and great products at competitive prices. I will do my utmost to create a unique company that will bring all of these elements to you.

For the last three months we have been working hard preparing for the launch of the U.S. website. Photofun is in full control of all production processes; everything we produce is manufactured entirely in-house. We own and write all of the programs that underpin the applications you will use on our site. In fact, at the very instant that you place an order, the product you have created (online), is transferred directly to a production printing device and printed automatically. The core of our business is built around our web-engine; it is due to this direct transfer of files that we are able to offer our ground- breaking low-prices and the reason that the quality of our product is so high.

All of your files are stored electronically on secure servers that are networked across the USA and Europe, using some of the most powerful and fast connectivity available today.

Photofun’s credo is “Quality & Innovation,” so we will constantly strive to bring new and high-quality innovative products and services to our site; we will continue to work hard to remain the technology leader in our field and to bring new products and services to our site for you to use so that you will always enjoy your experience when working with us!

Photofun’s corporate headquarters in the USA is located at: 7616 LBJ Freeway, Suite 540 Dallas, TX 75251.

Should you want to learn more about Photofun you can contact me. My email address is terry@photofun.com or my direct line is 214-473-5021.

I have personally made photo-products on our site (my wife and children love them) and as a fellow Photofuner I am blown away with their quality and value!

I look forward to working for you and sincerely hope that you enjoy your experience on our website… Please have Photofun!

Terry Rayner
President, Photofun, Inc.

One note: The engine for our website drives all of our applications and as we started in The Netherlands the base language used was Netherland’s (also known as Dutch) – we then used a conversion tool to convert the base language to American-English, British-English, French and German (to cover the languages of the countries our customers reside in); due to this, we are currently noticing a few minor language glitches. We are jumping on these glitches and are cleaning then up as we find them… if you see one please send me an email and I will credit your account with an additional 50 FREE 4” x 6” photos.

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As modern consumers we are challenged with walking the line between needs and wants on a daily basis – all with an eye towards our household’s bottom line. It is a difficult challenge to say the least; especially when you consider all of the conveniences afforded to us – some of which provide a much easier way to accomplish those tasks that once cost us so much time and money. But there is such a thing as false economy and those consumers who are attracted by the opportunity to save money by taking on a project themselves often find the reward to come up quite a bit short. The do-it-yourself movement – having put tools in the hands of home renovators, amateur mechanics, and part time interior designers – is one such example where, unless you know for sure that the savings will be worth it, it is very often best left to the professionals.

One industry that has offered consumers a world of time and money-saving options is that of photo printing. After all, there are few among us who do not own a digital camera; and the industry has taken note – offering consumers low prices on photo quality printers. But those who have taken the bait and bought the high-end printer understand better than anyone that their financial investment was far from over. In order to continue to produce high-quality photo prints and the myriad projects that the average consumer wishes to do with their photos, there requires a continued investment in photo quality paper and ink. The result? A staggering .30 to .50 average cost per print!

Such prices are even more out of line when you consider what the average amateur photographer does with their photo prints. Keeping in mind that photos taken are generally used for everything from holiday photo cards to photo albums, it is not difficult to see how the industry is making their money.

Super retailers, understanding this trend – and their customers’ need for fast, inexpensive photo prints – are offering what has been considered rock bottom prices on photo prints; many under .20 cents a print. And online retailers are keeping pace. Some of the most well-known online photo services currently offer their customers rates as low as .10 cents a print.

Photo Fun, however, offers customers the comprehensive, high quality services they have come to expect from online photo services at the lowest prices available - .5 cents a print.

Faced with the expensive materials, the time spent on creating photo prints that are of the quality consumers have come to expect, and the unpredictability of the equipment, consumers are largely abandoning their hopes of creating an efficient at-home photo lab. With photo giants such as Photo Fun offering high-quality, fast printing for everything from photo gifts to photo books – at industry low prices – consumers know they just have to logon to have everything they need shipped straight to their door – at the lowest prices available.

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