AwesomeCards.com enables consumers to select, personalize and send greeting cards free of charge. Consumers can select from among rich media features such as graphics, animation and music. Consumers can personalize any card to convey personal, business, or occasion-related sentiments in a creative way.
History
An early leader in Internet greeting cards, founded in October 1995, ACC features over 60 unique card collections. Continually updating its assortment, ACC offers Flash multimedia entertainment, game and interactive cards in addition to traditional "gif" animations.
Firsts
An innovative privately-owned corporation, ACC led the online greeting cards in such areas as
- changeable suggested greetings
- emailable greeting cards (no attachments)
- customizeable awards
- Internet cards for kids
- virtual fireworks
Stats
One of the Internet's most popular greeting card sites, AwesomeCards.com Corp. ("ACC") serves 5,300,000 pages to 1,175,000 unique visitors in a peak month. ACC attracts over 700,000 unique visitors in an average month with a reach of approximately 1%, placing it within a small fraction of the top 1% of all Internet sites. Technology available through Alta Vista identifies 5,200 other websites linked to ACC in the 17% of the Internet surveyed by Alta Vista, all without reciprocating link exchanges.
Consumer Satisfaction
Approximately 92% are very satisfied with the quality of product and service provided by the site, rating ACC users as a 4 or 5 on a scale of 5. Customers enjoy the opportunity to send greetings with a wide variety of features, including animation, music, and personalized messages free of charge.
Loyal, Established Clients
ACC has a loyal following, with two-thirds of ACC's card senders having bookmarked the site. For almost 5 years, ACC has provided its customers the opportunity to send digital greetings free of charge. During that time, users have enjoyed an increasingly rich media experience in sending cards via ACC.
Differentiated Exclusive Card Product
ACC provides an exclusive, differentiated card product with unique designs that have attracted an established customer following. As Internet technology changes. ACC carefully advances its site to introduce the new without excluding users with older software and equipment. Currently ACC is rolling out its newest multimedia card collections. Animation content, creative copy, HTML coding and design, and CGI programming are proprietary, generally created in-house or otherwise exclusively for ACC.
