Free E-Greeting Card Site Set to Rival Blue Mountain

Small Canadian internet company, CareerOwl.ca develops free e-greeting card site. Outstanding photography by digital photoartist Theresa Pugh and easy-to-use technical features is making OwlGreetings.ca a North American success story. Better yet, it's free!

8th May 2002

Free E-Greeting Card Site Set to Rival Blue Mountain

(Vancouver, BC) Whats Canadian grown, defies the odds, and beautiful to behold?

www.OwlGreetings.ca, thats what.

This home-grown, free e-greeting card site launched by CareerOwl Institute, a leading edge, e-recruiting service has achieved phenomenal success in a few short months. At a time when people are contemplating marketing strategies that do not rely heavily on dot.com businesses, OwlGreetings.ca bucks the trend.

OwlGreetings President and University of Alberta Business School professor Alice Nakamura explains: The students and grads using www.CareerOwl.ca told us they wanted a free e-greeting card site that didnt rely on invasive advertising. Our intent was to create a user-friendly site that would allow people to electronically send greeting cards of the highest quality."    

The site allows users to combine a selected photo art image with a wide selection of background colors, decorative borders for the card, and different fonts that can be used for the message added by the user. The site also allows users to upload their own digital photo images for use along with the other features of the e-greeting card site.

Telfer Maynard, the webmaster for the site, says that nearly 30,000 cards have been created and sent since the February launch. We had to go out and buy more powerful equipment to meet the demand," says Maynard, but with a high powered server in place now, were ready for the world to sign on come Mothers Day!"

Nakamura says that current figures indicate over 1,000 cards are being created and sent per day. The secret to its success, she says, is a combination of simple, easy-to-use technology and stunning photographs. She adds: Its quite rare to see such high quality photographic images used in a web-based environment for greeting cards. Whereas other providers go for the gadgets and the animation, our photographer, Theresa Pugh, creates mini works of art. This is what people respond to."

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For more information, please contact:
Telfer Maynard, Executive Director, CareerOwl
Telephone: 604-266-9740 or e-mail: telf@careerowl.ca

Note to Editors:

The site itself is provided by the CareerOwl Institute which also runs www.CareerOwl.ca, a leading edge, e-recruiting service open to all, but with special features to facilitate recruiting for the highly qualified. Canadian university faculty members donated their private funds and volunteered their expertise to found this service which helps to connect Canadian employers conveniently and cost effectively with the students and graduates their tax dollars helped to train.

The photo images that can be used for creating cards on this site are the original photo art of Vancouver born Theresa Pugh (http://www.editingat.homestead.com). She was raised in Victoria and educated at the University of BC. She lived and worked in London, England for many years where she had a successful career in public relations. An appreciation for beauty and a creative spirit lead to Theresa exploring new frontiers as a digital photoartist.