There are a number of criteria that I have seen used to assess whether a Home Business Opportunity is worth pursuing to gain your financial freedom. And after looking at those criteria in reference to Send Cards, all I can say is “Wow!” Yes Yes Yes. Let’s take a look at each one and see how Sending Cards ranks.

1. The home-based business opportunity has low start-up costs:

To become a Wholesale Distributor, your starting costs are $468. Period. That’s your total setup. This includes 200 points to use to promote your new business. Sending one of your 10,000 greeting cards will ‘cost’ only 2 points (plus postage; an ‘expense’ account is created for that). That’s 100 cards to send for birthdays, anniversaries, or any number of the myriad reasons to send a card. Now think about this, with the average greeting card at Walmart or Target, et al. costing around $3.50 (some are more, some are less), you’d spend $350 at a ‘big box store’ for the same number of cards and you wouldn’t have any of the conveniences Send Out Cards provide, since everything is does online. You’re almost $100 away from the system paying for itself.

2. The company has an absolutely clean reputation:

SendOutCards was founded by Kody Bateman in 2002. Years ago, Kody had the inspiration to tell his brother that he loved him. He ignored the instructions and his brother was killed leaving a wife and 3 children. He decided that he would never ignore directions again. SendOutCards is Kody’s brainchild to enable people to act on prompts by IMMEDIATELY sending a card in the mail seconds after being inspired to do so. I also had a look at ‘Rip Off Reports’ and only found 1 complaint against them. Honestly, with all the chances of screwing something up for almost 10 years of being in business and only finding one complaint against them? And the complaint was due to a misprint. Look, manufacturing errors are going to happen with ANY company that MANUFACTURES things. And the whistleblower even admits that he received a full refund from Send Out Cards. Pretty good in my book.

3. The product is in great demand by entrepreneurs:

Send Out Cards represent one of the most phenomenal ways for targeted promotion and tracking, as anything that looks like “spam” gets thrown away even by looking at it. I know, I do. However, when we receive a greeting card, we usually open it before looking at who it is from because we are so excited to receive it. I know, I do. Businesses always need a very easy and inexpensive way to track marketing, even if it’s just to say ‘thanks for your business’. And Send Out Cards can do it very cheaply for the company. It also has the ability to automate the follow-up marketing process.

4. There is a high success rate for distributors:

Yes, because the product sells itself. This is truly one of the best network marketing products in the industry. It TRULY is something everyone uses almost weekly: birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, thank you’s, birth announcements, thinking of you, condolences, graduations. I’ve talked to interested people just to save time and money just for their business Christmas Cards!

5. You have a simple marketing program that is easy to implement:

It couldn’t be simpler. This is what some call ‘appreciation marketing’. Just send cards. The average person sends about 1 card a month. I’ll probably send more, because it’s above average. The average SOC customer sends about 1 card per day because it’s so easy. Wouldn’t you send more cards to the people you care about if it was as easy as point and click and go?

6. There is excellent training and follow-up support for new distributors:

The support is amazing. Everything from free tickets to your “Treat ’em Right” seminars, to a host of online tools to keep you up to date and fully organized.

7. It doesn’t require a high level of skill to be successful:

Sending cards is incredibly easy, in part because you’ll love talking about it. And when you love something, talking about it and extolling the virtues of the system almost becomes second nature. And you don’t have to be a tech wizard, either. Theirs is this instant ‘connection’ when they talk to others about the simple sending of a card. No technical jargon, no high pressure push. It really is almost ‘self-evident’ how good the system is when it comes to ease of use and low cost compared to ‘big box’ cards. Really? Send card @ $.62 vs. Stamp @ $3.50. There is no comparison.

8. The nature of the product is unique, with little competition:

Very unique. Send Out Cards has a system called Picture Plus 2.0 where you can create a personalized card that is only limited by your own creativity. You can upload as many custom graphics and images and arrange them as you like, and even add a wide range of elements provided by Send Out Card, such as photo frames, custom backgrounds, etc, etc, etc. If you want to see how unique it is, then if you want you can send a card for free (at my expense) with no strings attached, and your information will not be given to ANYONE! They take your privacy VERY seriously.

9. The company begins its growth stage:

Yes, Send Out Cards saw 20% growth in 2010, which is quite remarkable given the extremely slow state of the economy. But it only makes sense when the network marketing business opportunity is combined with the ability to send real cards online very cheaply. People are looking for ways to save and Send Out Cards gives them that opportunity.

10. The compensation plan is very generous:

Yes, very generous. There’s no way I can list all compensation benefits here, but if you’d like to contact me, I’ll be happy to send you a .pdf file showing all compensation areas.