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Thursday, October 10, 2013

Inspirational New Year Quotes For Business Cheers

The beginning of the year is a great time not only for personal renewals or resolutions, but also for refreshing your professional connections from various sectors. Sending thoughtful New Year greetings to current and potential clients or partners is a good way to keep your company's products and/or services at the top of their minds, especially during such a period when business plans and strategies are likely being formed. As with other business greetings, though, it is always best to keep your messages short and simple, but warm and sincere, so you can spread some good will and thereby make a sufficiently good impression on existing as well as prospective clients. Below are a few memorable quotes from famous people that may work perfectly for your New Year business greetings:

·         “Whatever you do or dream you can do – begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • “Every man should be born again on the first of January. Start with a fresh page.” - Henry Ward Beecher


  • “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”  - Abraham Lincoln

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

The Magic of Christmas & the First Christmas Card

The magic of Christmas does not diminish with age. From little ones to grownups, everyone enjoys receiving gifts, attending parties and family reunions, and demonstrating love through acts of kindness. Aside from the parties and sumptuous food, many people look forward to receiving old-fashioned Christmas cards through snail mail. Christmas cards have a timeless appeal, as they are affordable, readily available, and can be personalized with messages and snapshots.  

Christmas cards were first sent 170 years ago. In 1843, Henry Cole sent the first commercial greeting card with a Christmas theme in London. Cole’s painter friend John Callcott Horsley designed the card, which was composed of three sections. Two side panels had images of a person feeding the hungry, and another, clothing the naked.

The middle panel showed folks gathered together for a Christmas party with a message that read: “A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You.” This historic holiday greeting was colored by hand on a stiff cardboard sized five and an eighth inches by three and a quarter inches. Felix Summerly’s Treasure House had 1,000 copies of the original card and sold each for one shilling. Only 12 of those cards, including the one Cole sent to his grandmother, have survived over the years.