With the advent of email greeting cards on the Internet, it’s become easier and easier to stay in touch, and let your friends and loved ones know you care.

E-cards are available for just about every occasion, holiday or sentiment. The nice thing about egreetings, is that you don’t have to run out to the local card store and browse through racks and racks of cards. Thousands of choices are available right at your fingertips, from the comfort of your own home.
Haven’t been in touch with someone for a while? Take a moment and send them a “Just Thinking of You” card. Want to impress your friends and family? Make sure you send them a birthday card or an anniversary card. The opportunities to send out email greeting cards are almost endless.

Over the course of a year, between regular holidays, religious holidays and life cycle events like graduations, congratulations, get well or even the opportunity to offer condolences on the passing of a loved one, E-cards rise a step above just sending an email.
New sites like Scheduled Cards take staying in touch to a whole new level, by allowing users to set up entire lists of contacts, create greeting cards to the whole list at one time and automatically schedule them to send on the appropriate occasion day year after year. Does this defeat the “personal” aspect of an email greeting card? Not if it’s done correctly. Personal sentiments that are added to the card can be both generic, but personal enough that each recipient thinks the card was sent specifically to them. The end result is the same -  the recipient appreciates the gesture.
One of the problems with free e-greeting card sites in the past has been that the recipient doesn’t can’t view your card directly in their email program. Instead, they receive a link back to the greeting card site, and have to view the card in a web browser where the greeting card company controls the “real estate” around the card which they employ to display advertising links, pop-up messages and other annoying tricks to distract you from the actual card.  There are several problems inherent in this. First, many users are hesitant to click on a link in an email – even if it says “John has sent you a birthday card, click here to view it”.  With the number of viruses sent around through email, users are right to be concerned that clicking a link like that might potentially expose their computer to some kind of malware.
What’s the answer then? Users should look for a site that sends the card image and message directly to the recipients inbox. Unfortunately, very few sites operate this way though, as most greeting card sites rely on the exposure to advertising that is thrust in front of the viewer when they go to collect their cards.  Again, Scheduled Cards displayed their innovation by splitting from tradition and allowing users to email cards directly.
So take a few moments and use email greeting cards to put a smile on someone’s face. It’s fast, it’s easy, and it’s free.