It features a greeting card with a fat woman in a tight blue bathing suit.
Now the online invitation and greeting card startup is taking that defiance a step further.
His online greeting card company, Regards.com, needed help going up against the well-heeled likes of Americangreetings.com and Bluemountain-arts.com.
The company is the second largest greeting card maker in the United states.
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American Greetings in Cleveland is one of the established greeting card companies that has taken a pass for now.
Something as simple as a greeting card can even start trouble, Williams says.
Consumer Reports did an experiment in which it put a battery from a greeting card between two slices of ham.
It is also confronting the grim reality that, in a world filled with e-mail and cell phones, greeting card sales are flat.
"You wouldn't give the same greeting card over and over, " says Anne Platt, Best Buy's senior director of marketing for gift cards.
Considering ditching the greeting card catalog and writing a nice check instead.
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The idea for Wood's first product was spurred by a client who was working on a talking greeting card using chips developed by Texas Instruments.
In all, more than than 200 companies have official licensing agreements with Elvis Presley Enterprises, including greeting card maker American Greetings and candy giant Hershey.
Once you've mastered storing and sharing your photos, you may want to touch up the red eye in a shot, or create a greeting card out of another.
Blue Mountain Arts, a folksy Colorado upstart that pioneered the on-line greeting card craze, drew 11 million viewers in October, even before the holiday season got under way.
So great, in fact, that U.K. Greeting card franchise Carlton cards asked her to come in and run their stores as well as her privately held and family company Papyrus.
Located in the Giardini corner of the immersive display, a large 6-foot-tall greeting card made entirely from flowers and surrounded by an elaborate frame makes for the perfect family photo opportunity.
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Toss out the greeting card companies as purely seasonal, and you have a pretty good list of the companies that are likely to emerge from this Christmas at the top of the pile.
Growing up in his family's Boulder-based greeting card and publishing business, Blue Mountain Arts, he succeeded his grandmother as sales manager in 1996 and helped start bluemountainarts.com, an online greeting card Web site.
Sharon Little, chief executive of the Greeting Card Association, said more cards were sent per person in the UK than anywhere else in the world, but the change in prices was a "worry".
Blue Mountain Arts, a folksy Colorado upstart that pioneered the on-line greeting card craze, drew 11 million viewers in October, making it the 10th-most-frequented site on the Web, even before the holiday season got under way.
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Among the alleged baits recently used to separate unwary investors from their funds: film deals, 19th-century railroad bonds, gold mines, iron mines, equipment leases, "medium-term notes, " greeting card manufacturing, a board game teaching investors how to get wealthy and even Mormon church financings.
In all, more than than 200 companies have official licensing agreements with Elvis Presley Enterprises, including greeting card maker American Greetings (nyse: AM - news - people ) and candy giant Hershey (nyse: HSY - news - people ).
He has covered shoes in gold studs (a recent boot brought to mind an abacus), dotted them with googly eyes (he got the idea from a greeting card), and topped them with plumes (a pointy-toed stiletto looks as if it had tussled with Tweety Bird).
Windsor has a sophisticated website for creating custom labels, with templates for holidays, special occasions, even pet pictures, much like a greeting card or business card site, and the labels are free with the wine (plus one cent shipping on all orders of 12 bottles or more).
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Its images of death have a soothing banality, like a greeting-card message from the world beyond.
Jenkins evinces no eye for visual melody and tricks up the images by leaching out most of the color, hinting at meaning but achieving merely a greeting-card cuteness.
Like other songs with universal themes - say, REM's Everybody Hurts - the imprecision of the lyric is seen by the many it reaches as a strength and by others as a weakness - a vagueness approaching greeting-card levels.
In November Tiny Prints, which ships 1 million customized greeting cards a day during the holidays, began offering customers the option to print a Tango Card directly inside Tiny's cards.
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