23 Trending Niche Greeting Cards Businesses [2024]
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1. Jacquie Lawson Cards
Where they're located: Stockton, California, USA
Website traffic: 6.59M/month
2. Joker Greeting
Joker Greeting is a prank musical greeting card. Cards lasts 3+ hours and get louder when you press button again. Joker Greeting is the funniest greeting card.
How much they make: $1.2M/year
Where they're located: Irvine, California, USA
How much did it cost to start: $1K
Current team size: 0
Website traffic: 30K/month
Joker Greeting sells unique prank gifts, including a non-stop musical birthday card, an idea raised by the founders visiting their mom's house, having no website or marketing and yet raising $92,073 on Kickstarter in 30 days due to being picked up by media, enabling them to sell 15,000 units in the first year, owned SEO for their niche, selling almost 40,000 units in 2017 and expected to reach 50,000 to 60,000 in 2018 with a small team, using Shopify and various social media channels with lots of organic traffic.
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4. Thankbox
Thankbox is a platform that allows users to send digital thank you cards and gifts. The company targets individuals and businesses looking to show appreciation. Founded by Scott Sunderland and based in London, Thankbox has a small team of employees and generates revenue through paid subscriptions and e-commerce sales. The business serves a niche market of gratitude-focused consumers.
How much they make: $420K/year
Where they're located: Edinburgh, UK
How much did it cost to start: $2.5K
Current team size: 3
30-year-old Val shares how she founded Thankbox, an online group card and gift collection service in Scotland that has been used to send over 40,000 cards, issued over $2 million worth of gift cards, and now pulls around $25k in revenue per month, with plans to expand and offer physical versions of cards.
5. EcardForest Ltd
Quality group ecards, which multiple people can sign. The online group cards, which can contain multiple signatures offer unmatched digital experience.
How much they make: $180K/year
Where they're located: London, UK
How much did it cost to start: $30K
Current team size: 3
EcardForest, a digital greeting card company that allows multiple people to sign and send ecards, generated over $15K in monthly revenue by prioritizing environmental protection and privacy, optimizing their website for speed and user experience, and investing in quality and advertising, while remaining agile and efficient.
6. CREOATE
Discover unique wholesale products and buy with just a few clicks. Shop from independent brands with stress-free shopping anytime, day or night.
Where they're located: Vallée du Bandama, Côte d'Ivoire
Website traffic: 330K/month
7. CardSnacks
CardSnacks lets you send mobile greeting cards and gift cards to your friends and family. Personalize your card with text, audio, and video.
8. D. Johnson & Co Greetings
9. Jordyn Alison Designs
Hand lettered products to bring you joy to your daily life and help connect you with others. Discover for yourself how Jordyn Alison Designs unique hand lettered items can meet your needs for any occasion.
How much they make: $48K/year
Where they're located: Michigan, USA
Current team size: 0
Jordyn Alison Designs owner Jordyn, has grown her hand-lettered stationary business to average $3,000 a month by expanding her product line to include greeting cards, vinyl stickers, notepads, apparel and more, while also using social media to promote her launches and gauging customer interest.
10. Printable Greeting Cards
Free Printable Greeting Cards in PDF format
11. Greeting Card Association
12. Sun Day Greetings
We make our wholesale greeting cards with the same love & care as when we started. That’s how they should be made right? Come see our cards.
13. Local Kine Cards
Local Hawaii Greeting Cards. Made in Hawaii by Maile Way Products, Inc.
Where they're located: Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
14. Donate Cards – Donate gift cards to help charities
Where they're located: City of Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
15. STL Yard Cards
Where they're located: City of Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
16. MontereyCards.com
Not more "stuff", but Art and Beauty as a universal language that touches our hearts beyond all our seeming disagreements, fears and troubles.
17. Nico Made
Greeting cards, note cards, and art prints featuring Island-inspired hand drawn prints.
Where they're located: Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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19. Best Paper Greetings
Best Paper Greetings offers gift-givers and greeting card senders amazing selection for all occasions and purposes. From Birthday cards for both adults, and children, to Retirement, Christmas and more.
21. Kudoboard
Online group card for birthdays, work anniversaries, and other special occasions. Add a message, photo, GIF, or video; invite others to post; then deliver!
Website traffic: 1.91M/month
22. Lucky Dog Design Co.
Whether you are shopping for fun birthday cards, enthusiast congratulations cards or thoughtful encouragement cards, we have you covered!
Where they're located: Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Learn how a stationery shop owner with a strong email marketing strategy and a focus on diversifying income streams grew her business to make $6,000 per month through DTC and wholesale channels, and how outsourcing, consistent experimentation, and prioritizing systems has helped her save time and grow revenue.
23. Periwinkle Greetings, LLC
How much they make: $12K/year
Where they're located: Encinitas, CA, USA
How much did it cost to start: $15K
Current team size: 1
Periwinkle Greetings uses Dye-sublimation to create unique metal greeting cards that can be displayed as art, with an average monthly revenue of $1000, and plans to pivot to B2B sales in 2023.
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