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It’s always great fun to send out holiday greeting cards to friends and family. E-cards make things even easier because you don’t have to worry about the time consuming process of browsing the store, and then paying good money on a piece of paper that will probably get scrapped anyway!

E-cards are also great because in most cases they don’t cost a penny of your hard earned money. There are literally tons of websites dedicated to the creation and sending out of e-cards. I have found one though, that could make those holiday greetings even MORE fun. Www.MP3Musicgrams.com!

Users can either upload their own graphics, or pick and choose from some of the great new holiday graphics they have available for their e-cards, and choose a favorite song to attach to the e-card. They can then click a button and send the e-card out to up to 10 people all at once. The cards are designed to encourage music lovers to spread holiday cheer and music together.

While a fun and creative way for users to send out holiday greetings, I think it’s even more important to look at the marketing benefits something like that could bring an artist or performer. On their site, users have the option of uploading their own mp3 music to the musicgram library.

Artists can add a photo as well as their mp3 to the musicgram, and send it out to friends and family. Then, those friends and family may send it out to more friends and family. This can create a viral effect on the artists music and sound, there by spreading the word. Pretty good marketing huh?

So, if your a performer, or band on a budget, and want to get some free advertising circulating about, head over to www.mp3musicgrams.com. Put together a great cover image of you or your band, create your demo track and convert it to mp3, and then upload them both. Also remember to create a short bio to go along with it. Your fans will have the option of previewing your track before downloading the e-card. If they like it, then viola! Your music will be headed to the inbox’s of the masses!

Everyone is using them…Why not you? Why are E-cards so popular in todays digital world? Well, simply because today is a digital world of course! Media is switching to digital right and left, and in the age of convenience, it just makes sense to use an e-card rather than boring old paper ones. Not to mention the killer graphics you can attach to a digital card, that makes them fun and entertaining for their readers!

But let’s talk about specifics on why e-cards have grown into such popularity. First of all, if you are involved in Internet marketing at all, you view e-cards as a way to garner more traffic to your website. This follows along the lines of viral marketing. Attaching your business name or logo to a unique or funny e-card, means there is a great chance it will get forwarded along and go viral!

It’s easy to spread the love. Not only is it easy to go viral with your customer base, it’s just easier to send an e-card to loved ones. Not to mention, during holidays you get to bypass the huge post office rush, and rest secure in the knowledge that YOUR greeting card is reaching it’s recipient in time! Neener, neener, neener!

It’s also a winner with the Eco friendly folks intent on ‘going green’ in today’s polluted and misused world. Not only do e-cards save trees, fuel, and paper, they also reduce the waste that is created printing out large quantities of paper cards. Environmental groups are all gung ho for them for this very reason!

Not to mention the fact, that it’s just downright more convenient all around. Who actually WANTS to go to the store just to pick up a greeting card, and then have to purchase postage and perhaps visit the dreaded post office? Definitely not I! You?

So save yourself some trouble, stop resisting, and just jump on the e-card bandwagon already. I promise, tree’s will thank you!

Nowadays, with the number of people still having unprotected sex it’s pretty darn easy to pick up an STD with out ever knowing it. And guess what? If your partner never mentions it, you might never find out! Now tell me, wouldn’t that be something you’d like to know, if your partner had a bad case of herpes and just didn’t tell you?

Well how about an e-card to give you the heads up? Cowardly? Maybe. Does it do the job? Most definitely! A lot of people are uncomfortable bringing up the topic if they have an STD that it’s possible you can contract.

So in defense, they just don’t say anything at all, which leads to whatever they had getting spread around further by you! You can bet your future partners won’t appreciate it, but even worse than that could you imagine finding out you have herpes from the new lady friend you just gave it to?!

So folks now are resorting to anonymous e-cards to break the news to their partners and give them a heads up to go get tested. While it may be slightly insensitive, researchers are saying that it’s more a public health service, and it’s better than never being informed at all!

The e-cards come in a variety of styles you can choose from to pass along the news. Some are flirty some are more serious. You can check them all out at www.inSPOT.org and choose the best fit for your situation.

There is some concern that the site could be abused and people send out prank e-cards, but so far the number of complaints in that regard are very low. Another great feature is that if the card receiver lives within one of the 10 cities the site has teamed up with, the card recipient is then directed to the nearest local testing and treatment location.

So far these e-cards are being seen as a positive way to impact the sexual community and keep folks from spreading the love around indiscriminately. However more testing and research is being done by health officials to see if it could have a real and lasting effect on improving sexual health and awareness.

E card popularity is increasing all the time. So many people are becoming more aware of the environment, and the pollution and degradation of our resources and are starting to come up with little ways that they can ’save the planet’ and cut down on the waste of paper. Electronic cards happen to be a way that they can do that, and have fun too.

With the Internet becoming increasingly pervasive in all areas of personal life and business, it just makes sense to jump on the bandwagon and go electronic. Email is now a preferred method of communication between two people, and it is simple as the click of a button to pop off a funny or heart warming e card to your best friend or your grandma that lives in Kentucky!

Choosing a nice Christmas or holiday e card just takes a few minutes of browsing an online provider, choosing the one that suits you best, and personalizing it a bit if you wish with your own message. Compare that to the old method of driving to the store, spending an hour browsing through the cards, and then paying for postage just to send a holiday greeting, and it’s no wonder ecards are gaining in popularity.

Another draw to ecards, is the ability to personalize it with a short video if you want. Paper cards are great, but which do you think will bring tears to a Grandma’s eyes faster… A paper Christmas card with a photo of little Junior? Or an e card with a short clip of little Junior telling Grandma he loves her and misses her, and to have a Merry Christmas! I know which I’d rather have.

American’s these days are all about convenience and instant gratification. That is what the original paper cards were invented for in the first place, to save time. Fortunately ecards are the perfect way to cater to that need, and are just the new wave technology to eventually make paper cards obsolete. And if you take into account that most ecards are absolutely free to send, what’s not to love about them?