In case you have missed it, we have a fantastic new Facebook app that lets you send Virginia State Park postcards to your Facebook fans. I'm writing a post each week featuring one of the ten postcards.
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This week's post card is a view of Douthat Lake. Okay, so I like really scenic places with benches (you may be recalling another postcard I featured a couple of weeks ago). This is a wonderful spot to catch some sun and watch the folks enjoying the lake.
It's easy to send this postcard of Douthat State Park or any of the nine others to a Facebook friend. Simply click here or look on the left side of the page under the picture and click on Send Postcards. You will be able to type of friend's name, select a postcard, and send it in less than a minute!
The oldest antique postcards date back more than 150 years. Later, more evolved cards can tell the modern viewer a lot of about the art, design, photography, history, geography and sociology of the day.
People sent postcards about gruesome disasters, such as floods in ravaged San Antonio or mass graves after the 1919 hurricane in Corpus Christi. From Austin, there were the famous twin tornadoes of 1922 and the Colorado River flood up Congress Avenue in 1935.
All incoming mail must be in the form of a post card. Legitimate legal and/or privileged mail is excluded from this policy. Post cards with computer generated pictures printed on them will be allowed. All incoming postcards received must meet the following criteria:
Please Note: If using a postcard application on your mobile device, please remember to add your name and return address at the top of your message to avoid rejection as most of the apps do not allow for a return address.
Sincerely got its start by offering an app, Postagram, that lets users quickly and easily turn Instagram photos into postcards that can be mailed to friends for 99 cents. But two years and three apps later, the mobile gifting company has taken on a whole new life.
What did Sincerely learn in 2013?Freebies are a powerful way to attract new customers. Sincerely has learned that giving away free personalized postcards on the company's Postagram app is a great prospecting tool. Initially, the company sold its personalized photo postcards for 99 cents. But in late 2012, it began testing out ad sponsorships from major consumer brands, such as Coppertone and Hyundai. Postagram users can still choose to pay 99 cents for ad-free postcards, but they can now also pay nothing to send cards with an ad emblazoned on the back. "There are plenty of people who will spend 99 cents to send a postcard," Brezina says. "But our whole strategy is to get everyone in the world to send cards."
When people send postcards for the first time, the company adds them to its email list and cross-promotes its other offerings, such as encouraging them to send gifts to friends and family on special days via Sincerely's Sesame app or to send holiday cards using its Ink app. Brezina says offering free postcards has increased the volume three-fold. "So far, it's even been even more profitable than having users pay for the cards" themselves, he says, because of the ad sponsorship dollars the company receives and the large increase in new users.
There are many mobile apps that are widely used only during summer and once summer is over their usage ceases. Summer is often related to travelling because people tend to travel more when weather conditions are in favor. Back in the past, when people were still using snail mail to send letters, they used to send postcards every time they would travel somewhere.
When people stopped sending letters and turned to emails, they also stopped sending postcards. Like everything else, now sending postcards have become available on mobile. There are mobile apps that enable you to send your pictures as postcards and let your friends and family know that you think about them when you are away.
Touch Note is a well-known app that turns photos into postcards and greetings cards for every occasion. With this postcard maker you can create personalized postcards and send them to your friends. You can send gifts with the cards and fancy envelopes or just postcards.
Photocard app is a bit different because it has a gallery of beautiful photos which you can use to make a postcard. You can add your image, stamps, signature or dictate a message on the back to personalize the postcard even more.
Postagram is perfect for vacations, holidays, birthdays and other celebrations. With this app you can use your Facebook, Instagram and iPhone photos to turn them into postcards and print them on thick, glossy paper.
My Postcard is another app for creating, printing and sending postcards to your beloved ones. Once you select a postcard style, upload a photo from your camera or social media app (Instagram). Then select a frame and type greeting text.
If you would like to send several postcards, but only pay once, no problem. Open your account and buy credits online on our website or by using our app. Afterwards, you may pay for your postcards easily by logging in to your account and using your account balance. You can pay for credits via by PayPal, credit card or instant bank transfer.
In the "My account" section within the app, you may top up your account balance with the desired number of postcards by paying for them beforehand. As described above, you can then pay for postcards using your account balance.
MyPostcard is specialized in printing your pictures in high quality and sending it as a real postcard. In case you wish to process your picture or use a special filter to improve your image, please use one of the several image processing apps available on the market to do so. Afterwards, upload the processed picture to our MyPostcard app. After your upload to our app, you may still scale and move the picture as much as you like in order to find the best cut-out for your postcard.
We asked people to share interesting facts or information about their states on their postcards. The people of the United States have shared lots of interesting facts for our students. We have learned about national parks, climates of the states, interesting and fun facts, and historical information!
Cite the Facebook link properly, such as www.facebook.com/yourcompanypagename. You might also drop the initial "www" from the web address. Another good idea is to print the Facebook logo along with your reference. The Facebook logo is widely recognizable and often used on company websites. Including it might help convey a sense of unity among your firm's online and print marketing materials.
Remember when an essential part of traveling was sending snail-mail postcards to family and friends? Over time, it became easier and easier to snap pictures with your cell phone, send them by text message and post them on Facebook. The next thing you know, people just weren't sending many postcards anymore.
But a funny thing has been happening in the last couple of years. Maybe the novelty of sending snapshots by cell phone has worn off, but now there are a number of apps that allow iPhone users to edit, enhance and filter the photos you take with your phone. And just as those apps have grown in popularity, so have apps that allow you to do more than show off an impressive photo on your social networks. These apps enable you to incorporate your photos into postcards with personal messages -- virtual or physical -- to send to those you love.
Increasingly, people are choosing to go a little retro, something more like those old-school postcards that you once used to share your travels with the folks back home. And since you can use your own photos, you're not limited to sending pictures of subjects that someone else deemed worthy of a postcard. The best part? You don't even have to leave home to send one!
How popular are these apps? Photogram, one of the first, reached 100,000 iPhone downloads in the first week after its June 2011 release [source: Van Grove]. Keep reading to learn about the two main types of postcard apps available for the iPhone.
Several free apps allow you to send postcards from your iPhone. There are two basic types: those that send virtual postcards, and those that send real, physical postcards through the U.S. Postal Service. Let's look at how two of the popular ones work.
Photogram allows you to choose photos from your phone, then crop and zoom to get just what you want -- all from a single screen. You can use as many as four photos to make your postcard. You can select backgrounds and themes that come free with the app or buy others from the app's theme store for 99 cents -- or less per theme if you buy a "bundle." (Independent artists partnering with Photogram design the themes.) Just add a personal message, then send your postcard by e-mail -- and, if you want, post them to Facebook and Twitter.
Like Photogram, Postagram combines your photo with a personal message. The main difference between the two apps is that Postagram sends a real postcard, delivered by the U.S. Postal Service. This feature can be great for communicating with those who don't spend much time online. And even those who use texts, e-mails and social networking sites like real cards that they can display on the refrigerator or bulletin board. Recipients also can pop the die-cut photo out of the postcard for display in a frame.
Postagram is free, but you do have to pay to send your postcards through the mail. (There's no need to print -- all you need is your contact's snail-mail address.) The cost for delivery within the U.S. is 99 cents, payable by credit card. The card should arrive within about five days. Delivery outside the U.S. costs a bit more and takes longer.
Postcard on the Run offers more than locator maps and scratch-and-sniff postcards. It will track down those snail-mail addresses that you never bothered to get from your friends. When you're ready to send your postcard, the app asks you to choose the people in your phone's address book who should get one. If their postal address isn't in the book, you can ask the app's "Postal Gopher" to send them a text or e-mail asking for their mailing address. 2ff7e9595c
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