How to build more meaningful connections on LinkedIn with greeting cards
It’s so easy to just comment on someone’s LinkedIn post and just… scroll on. And commenting is great for them because you acknowledge their achievements or milestones. It’s also great for you because it gives your personal or brand page a bit more visibility on the LinkedIn timeline.
But…
Why not go beyond the algorithm, get back into real life? It’s easy, we promise. Here’s what you do:
Comment on their post as you usually would. Then follow up with a greeting card. It’s the perfect thing to do for those celebrating momentous occasions, or even those going through a tough time.
Here are just a few ideas to get you started.
Congratulations Cards: Promotion or New Position
Someone getting a new job or accepting a promotion might be the most common celebration on LinkedIn. Once you see that announcement post in your feed, send a congratulations card.
Other reasons to send a professional congratulations card:
- Receiving a professional certification or further education
- Moving to a new facility or completing renovations
- Birth of a child or grandchild
- Adopting a pet or adding a new animal to their family – especially if the animal is part of the office crew!
- Running in a race or other athletic or competitive event
- Reaching any kind of goal (ex: I wanted to bake 10 loaves of bread this year and I did it!)
- Celebrating xx years of sobriety – yes, professionals open up about this on LinkedIn
Birthday Cards for Professionals
Create a list of clients, vendors, and peers whose birthdays you want to celebrate beyond online. Start this list in advance, since LinkedIn gives birthday notifications the day of their birthday.
Business Anniversary Cards for Professional & Personal Celebrations
There are several ways to use anniversary cards from your business:
- Celebrating an individual’s work anniversary at a company or organization
- Someone mentions a personal anniversary, like a wedding anniversary
- Send to an entire business if they’re celebrating a milestone year, like the 10th year in business
Should you send holiday cards to LinkedIn connections?
Yes, of course! But the question becomes: do you send holiday cards to everyone, just a select group… how do you decide?
It might help to get a spreadsheet of your connections. Here’s how to download your list of connections on LinkedIn:
- Under your profile picture menu, choose “Settings & Privacy”
- Select “Data privacy”
- Under “How LinkedIn uses your data,” choose “Get a copy of your data”
- From there, choose “Contacts,” and that’s it! Once the spreadsheet is complete, you’ll receive an email from LinkedIn.
This spreadsheet doesn’t have mailing addresses, but it could help you quickly go over who you might want to send greeting cards to. Or—with a little spreadsheet wizardry—you could compile data from separate spreadsheets (ie, mailing addresses) to create a more comprehensive list.
Never sent business greeting cards to clients before? We’re here to help.
We have even more greeting card dos and don’ts to help you get started:
- How to write business greeting cards
- Creative greeting card sign-offs for businesses and brands
- Business Greeting Card Etiquette
Plus, we have a line of classic and modern greeting card designs for business owners and organization leaders like you. Find your company greeting cards or give us a call at (800) 475-2255.
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Creative greeting card sign-offs for businesses and brands
If you want to send greeting cards for your business, but don’t want to use the old standby “Sincerely” every time, then we have a list of clever business greeting card sign-offs for you. So if you’re not sure how to sign a greeting card, keep reading!
But before we get started… signing off your business greeting cards with a simple “Thanks” or “Thank You” works for nearly every business, brand, or event. Or—and hear us out—a sign-off isn’t always needed! Sometimes, just your signature is enough. Remember, sign-offs are just part of the entire greeting card message.
But if you want to go a bit further, read on for some inspiration. Share how you sign your business greeting cards in the comments below.
Generic sign-offs for any business greeting card
These are the traditional closings for greeting cards from businesses, but they work!
- Sincerely
- Regards / Kind Regards / Warm Regards
- Best Wishes
- All the best
- Until next time
- With appreciation
- Appreciate your support/business
- Cordially
- Respectfully
Motivational sign-offs
If you want to be direct with your sign-off, check out this list. Great for any business, but especially places that motivate like gyms, business/life coaches, professional peers, and more.
- Stay tough
- Slay / Keep Slaying
- Get it
- Here’s to the grind
- Let’s go
- Let’s do this
- We got this / You got this
Feel-good sign-offs
These are for those who are festive, fabulous, and not afraid of a good party. These greeting card closings have an optimistic feel to them.
- Cheers
- Stay fabulous
- Stay classy
- Let’s party
- Hugs & Happiness
- Here’s to the good times
Secular Christmas & Holiday card sign-offs
We offer a selection of Christmas and Holiday business greeting cards. For those who want to send the more secular-themed cards, check out these easy ways to sign a secular (not religious) holiday card:
- Here’s to the Holidays
- Cheers to the New Year
- Warm Wishes
- Peace & Joy
- Good Tidings
- To you & yours
- Be Merry
Greeting card sign-offs by industry
Realtors
- Congrats
- Welcome Home
- To making memories
- To a new adventure
Finance
- To new dreams
- Here’s to your future
- Here to help you grow
- Let’s make your dream happen
Where to find greeting cards for your business
We’re On The Ball Promotions, and we make greeting cards for businesses like yours. If you don’t have some cards in your business stationery collection, check out our card collection. All USA-made with free personalization and fast shipping.
Let’s put your logo to work.
Thanksgiving Greeting Card Sentiments for your B2B and B2C Customers
Need help expressing your gratitude to your clients or customers? Thanksgiving greeting cards are the perfect way to express your sentiments.
We’ve collected some Thanksgiving greeting card sentiments to say how much your customers mean to you. These messages for Thanksgiving cards work for small businesses, large companies, non-profit organizations, family-owned businesses, and more.
Here are some Thanksgiving greeting card message ideas:
- During this time of Thanksgiving, we’d like to express our appreciation to you for your business.
- Wishing you and yours the happiest of holidays and a wonderful New Year!
- I appreciate having you as a client and a friend. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
- Clients like you make our business thrive, and for that, I am thankful.
- During this time in giving thanks, we want to thank you for your business. We value you and look forward to working with you in the future.
- Warmest Thanksgiving wishes and hopes for a happy holiday season!
- We’re thankful to have clients like you—not just on Thanksgiving, but every day. Happy holidays!
- We’re counting our blessings this Thanksgiving and working with you is one of them!
- Warmest wishes for a blessed holiday season and a wonderful New Year!
- From our family to yours, have a Happy Thanksgiving.
- Your support means the world to us. During this time of thanks, we thank you for continuing to support our cause.
- Wishing you prosperity, health and happiness on this special day of thanks.
- Sending warm wishes this Thanksgiving season and throughout the coming holidays.
Before you send your Thanksgiving holiday cards, be sure to brush up on your how to write business greeting cards.
Need Thanksgiving greeting card for your business or organization?
We have you covered. Shop Thanksgiving cards for your business from On The Ball Promotions. We provide Thanksgiving business greeting cards for small business owners, non-profit organizations, city governments, and more.
What can we create for your business? Check out our Thanksgiving card line.
How to write business greeting cards
Here at On The Ball Promotions, we LOVE getting greeting cards.
From colleagues, friends, or professional peers, it doesn’t matter who sent it. Picking up that personalized greeting card from the mail cart gives us that warm and fuzzy feeling that we just don’t get from an impromptu email greeting.
So we open greeting card, delighted that someone thought of us, whether it’s someone’s birthday, work anniversary, one of us completed a professional certification course, or Christmas greetings for our entire office family.
Our friends, peers, and colleagues choose beautiful cards to send us. We open our cards with nearly the same excitement as when grandma would sneak some cash into our birthday cards (yes, we really do love greeting cards around here).
And what we see is the pre-printed sentiment and a signature.
Well, that’s awesome, we think, they thought of us, and let us know they were thinking of us.
However.
As happy as we feel for getting that greeting card, it’s like we bought the biggest firework available, and it turned out to be an everyday sparkler. It’s pretty and it makes us smile a little, but it doesn’t have the same emotional impact.
Have you experienced this? Or were you the one who promised a firework but delivered a sparkler?
We’re not here to make you feel guilty about how you send greeting cards. The fact that you’re sending them is GREAT.
We’re here to give you some tips on how to make those business greeting cards have a impactful message and have a more lasting impact on your customers, clients, peers, and business associates.
What to say in business greeting cards
Don’t: Use just a stock sentiment and your company logo.
Even if it’s a short hello, it’s worth it to spend the extra time to write notes to your greeting card recipients.
People know that receiving greeting cards from businesses is another marketing tactic in that company’s arsenal.
Be that as it may, adding the personalized, handwritten note will soften the impact. Greeting cards are pretty much the perfect soft sell advertising your company could choose.
On a related note, sign your names. While we can foil stamp or print your signatures, unless you’re sending a huge bulk amount of greeting cards at one time, your authentic signature will hold more meaning than an imprinted signature.
Don’t: Have the intern do it.
While it may be tempting to have an assistant write the notes for you, it will be much more meaningful if you write the messages yourself. Your peers and clients will appreciate the sincerity.
Don’t: Offend.
If you want to say “Merry Christmas” then say “Merry Christmas.” But unless you’re sending a Christmas card to Christian customers, peers, or colleagues, it’s best to leave the bible verse off.
Don’t: Rely on standard sentiments.
We know, we’re saying you should do something opposite of what we advertise (we offer standard everyday greeting card sentiments and Christmas card sentiments).
But sometimes, choosing something other than a stock sentiment for business greeting cards can really make it stand out.
What to write in business greeting cards
The possibilities are endless! Here are some ideas we’ve collected both from personal experience and from how our customers have used our personalized business greeting cards.
Say thank you in your business greeting cards—especially in your holiday cards.
Write a heart-felt message of thanks from the CEO, founder, or other leader(s) of your company. Say more thank just “Thank you for being a loyal customer.” Say why you’re thankful.
Here are some ways to use Christmas cards or generic business greeting cards as thank you cards:
- If your business went through some big staff changes, thank your customers for understanding as your business transitioned to new leadership.
- If you received a lot of feedback, testimonials, or reviews throughout the year, thank your customers for voicing their compliments—and concerns—to you. After all, those voices are what help your business grow.
- If you experienced growth, let your customers know they are helping you build your business.
What are some season’s greetings messages for business greeting cards?
We offer many stock sentiments for business Christmas cards. Here are some of the most popular holiday card verses for businesses to send to customers:
- Season’s greetings and best wishes for the New Year.
- To our friends and customers, Our warmest wishes for a joyous holiday season and a new year filled with peace and happiness.
- Wishing you all the best in the coming year.
- Best wishes for a joyous holiday.
- Peace and joy throughout the season.
- Peace on Earth, good will to all
- We wish you a Merry Christmas and a joyous new year!
More business greeting card message samples for holidays and special occasions
Sentiments for business birthday cards:
- Best wishes on your birthday!
- With warmest birthday wishes
- Wishing you the best on your birthday and always
Sentiments for business thank you cards:
- With great appreciation
- With sincere thanks and warm wishes.
- It was our pleasure to serve you.
Sentiments for business congratulations cards:
- Congratulations and best wishes always!
- Congratulations! It’s celebration time.
- Enjoy your special day.
Sentiments for business employee welcome cards:
- Welcome to the team.
- Welcome, it is a pleasure to have you here.
- Our entire company extends its warmest welcome.
Sentiments for business anniversary cards:
- Wishing you a wonderful day!
- We appreciate your contributions to our success the past year.
- Warmest wishes on your special day.
Sentiments for business sympathy cards:
- We would like to extend our sincerest sympathy to you and your family.
- Please accept our deepest sympathy.
- Our heartfelt thoughts are with you.
All of these messages for company greeting cards are available as stock sentiments in our business greeting cards.
How to sign a business greeting card
By now, we’ve given you some practical ideas on how to write a business greeting card. Now it’s time for your John Hancock.
But before you write your signature, there’s the closing (which is also known as a valediction or complimentary close). You might be thinking, how can I best close a letter?
Here are some of the most popular ways to write a closer in your company greeting cards.
- Sincerely
- Kind regards
- Warm regards
- Thank you
- Many thanks
- My best
- All the best
- Best wishes
- Warm wishes
- Cheers (perhaps the least formal option on this list)
- Cordially
- Best
- In appreciation
- With sincere appreciation
- Respectfully
For holidays or other special greetings, it is acceptable to sign off with the name of event at hand, like any of the below. These sign-offs are less formal than the formal business message closings above:
- Merry Christmas
- Happy holidays
- Happy new year
- Happy Thanksgiving
- Happy Easter
- Happy birthday
- Happy anniversary
Here are some tips on how to sign personalized greeting cards from businesses:
Should I capitalize every word of my closing?
No. It is accepted practice to capitalize just the first word in your closing. For example, you would write “Kind regards,” not “Kind Regards”.
Do I need to sign each card, or can I have my signature printed on my greeting cards?
Though we offer FREE personalization on all of our company cards—and we can print or foil stamp your signature—we recommend you sign the cards yourself.
It doesn’t take much time to scribble out your signature, and it means something to the recipients if you sign it yourself. It’s a truly personalized, human touch.
Need some greeting cards for your business? On The Ball Promotions can help.
We carry a large line of Christmas cards, thank you cards, birthday cards, and more. The designs and sentiments were chosen to cater to businesses who want to send an assortment of greeting cards throughout the year to employees, business peers, customers, or clients.
Select a holiday or occasion below to buy business greeting cards online:
- Christmas Cards
- Thanksgiving Cards
- Logo Note Cards
- Birthday Cards
- Thank You Cards
- Congratulations Cards
- Anniversary Cards
- Sympathy Cards
Need some help choosing the right greeting card for your business or message? We’re happy to help. Call us at (800) 475-2255.