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==Kooky Kards==
 
==Kooky Kards==
''Card Making and Wedding Stationery Supplies''
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[[Image:KookyKardslogo.jpg]]
  
Thousands more craft products for card making and Scrapbooking are available in our retail outlet, visit our Craft Shop in Basildon.
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KookyKards.com is a unique business that specializes in making professional quality card blanks for wedding invitations. They take great pride in making sure each card in an order is exactly the same in size, shape, quality and has precise folds. Not only do they sell the card blanks to make the cards, they also offer many wedding invitation designs and instructions free to view online. KookyKards.com also offers a wide range of crafting supplies to help create each card design, or to use for general crafting projects.
  
Find out how to sell your crafts and also save 10 percent on all products purchased from Kookykards, Selling Handmade Cards
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==History==
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In 1998, Jacque Barns started making her own handmade cards. She spent a lot of time shopping for embellishments to use for making cards, but found that there were very few options to choose from in crafting stores. Jacque then decided to find her own crafting suppliers and produce her own, unique card blanks. She is now the proud and successful owner of Kooky Kards in Essex. Due to the amount of card stock involved in making her blanks, Jacque decided to start the website KookyKards.com and sell the excess stock and other supplies via the internet.
  
==Contact==
 
: JB Designs
 
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==Additional Information==
 
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===The Business ===
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What makes these card blanks so unique is the high quality standards they place on each blank they produce. Almost all crafting retailers sell card blanks that are a good enough quality for making general homemade cards, but these cards are not a high enough quality for making professional quality cards. “There is a big difference between card blanks sold for crafting cards and cards supplied as finished products such as greeting cards or wedding stationary,” states Jacque.
  
1. How did your business get started? Is there any other type of history you would like to share?
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The biggest challenge to Kooky Kards does not lie so much in competing with other retailers similar to them, but more in the task of keeping up with the current trends of card making. Because they specialize in producing high quality card blanks, general crafting stores are not really a direct competitor. Even though these types of stores do carry a range of similar items, they do not offer the same high quality or wide array of these products.
  
We have been in business since 1998.
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Keeping up with the ever changing trends of card making can be challenging, but Kooky Kards has had no problems in doing so. Since they produce their own card blanks, they can create a new card blank design or color and have the new product ready for sale within a few days.
  
2. What is unusual or unique about your business? What do you do differently than the rest?
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==Clients==
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The majority of customers who buy from Kooky Kards are creative people
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who are soon to be married and want to make their own wedding invitations. They also reach out to crafters who make their own greeting cards and other homemade crafts.
  
Our company specializes in making card blanks designed for use as wedding invitations. All of our card blanks are our own exclusive design, available only on our website or in our store in Basildon, Essex.
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Not only do individual consumers buy from Kooky Kards, but they also sell supplies to handmade wedding stationary manufactures and handmade greeting card manufacturers. One of the companies Kooky Kards supplies to is [[oliveweddings.co.uk|OliveWeddings]].
  
We use a Heidelberg Platen Die Cutting machine to make all of our card blanks. This ensures that each card is exactly the same in size and design as the others in an order. One important detail of our cards is the fact that we make sure all creasing and scoring is done parallel to the grain direction of the card. This ensures a crisp and smooth fold, decreased warping and curling, and an increase in upright rigidity of the cards.
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==Customer Testimonials==
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{{PullQuote|I ordered postcard wraps and inserts for my wedding invitations. They arrived extremely quickly, were easy to put together and look fantastic. Everyone has said how professional and expensive they look.|Elaine<br/>}}
  
 
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3.      What are some of the greatest challenges in your business and how do you meet them?
 
 
 
4.  Do you have any interesting statistics?
 
 
 
We have sold over 1 million card blanks to date. We always keep a good supply of cards in      stock, currently at over 40,000 card blanks.
 
 
 
5.  How would someone external describe your business?
 
 
 
Our customers describe us as a not only a place to buy unique wedding card blanks, but also a place where they can get creative ideas. We have many invitation designs and instructions free to view. Some people might even describe us as a “craft store” because we also sell many crafting tools, embellishments, and paper products.
 
 
 
 
 
6.    What are your business' top 5 keywords? (Words people would search online to find companies that are in the same type of business as you)
 
 
 
*  Card Stock Supplies
 
*            Wedding Invitation Supplies
 
*            Craft Supplies
 
*            Embellishments
 
*            Crafting Tools
 
 
 
=== Personnel ===
 
 
 
7. Who would be the best to profile of your key staff?
 
 
 
8.    Please give some personal background for each of these people (include a photo if possible).
 
 
 
=== Your customers ===
 
 
 
9.      What is an interesting story about a customer interaction you had?
 
 
 
10.  Who do you typically serve in your business? Who are you trying to reach out to?
 
 
 
Our main target customers would be creative people who are soon to be married and want to make their own wedding invitations. We also reach out to crafters who make their own greeting cards and other homemade crafts.
 
 
 
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11.      Who are your competitors? Do you have other related websites (suppliers, subsidiaries, etc) and could you describe how they're related?
 
 
 
12.  What other businesses in your industry should I look at to better understand what you do?
 
 
 
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KookyKards.com is a unique business that specializes in making professional quality card blanks for wedding invitations. They take great pride in making sure each card in an order is exactly the same in size, shape, quality and has precise folds. Not only do they sell the card blanks to make the cards, they also offer many wedding invitation designs and instructions free to view online. KookyKards.com also offers a wide range of crafting supplies to help create each card design, or to use for general crafting projects.

History

In 1998, Jacque Barns started making her own handmade cards. She spent a lot of time shopping for embellishments to use for making cards, but found that there were very few options to choose from in crafting stores. Jacque then decided to find her own crafting suppliers and produce her own, unique card blanks. She is now the proud and successful owner of Kooky Kards in Essex. Due to the amount of card stock involved in making her blanks, Jacque decided to start the website KookyKards.com and sell the excess stock and other supplies via the internet.


What makes these card blanks so unique is the high quality standards they place on each blank they produce. Almost all crafting retailers sell card blanks that are a good enough quality for making general homemade cards, but these cards are not a high enough quality for making professional quality cards. “There is a big difference between card blanks sold for crafting cards and cards supplied as finished products such as greeting cards or wedding stationary,” states Jacque.

The biggest challenge to Kooky Kards does not lie so much in competing with other retailers similar to them, but more in the task of keeping up with the current trends of card making. Because they specialize in producing high quality card blanks, general crafting stores are not really a direct competitor. Even though these types of stores do carry a range of similar items, they do not offer the same high quality or wide array of these products.

Keeping up with the ever changing trends of card making can be challenging, but Kooky Kards has had no problems in doing so. Since they produce their own card blanks, they can create a new card blank design or color and have the new product ready for sale within a few days.

Clients

The majority of customers who buy from Kooky Kards are creative people who are soon to be married and want to make their own wedding invitations. They also reach out to crafters who make their own greeting cards and other homemade crafts.

Not only do individual consumers buy from Kooky Kards, but they also sell supplies to handmade wedding stationary manufactures and handmade greeting card manufacturers. One of the companies Kooky Kards supplies to is OliveWeddings.

Customer Testimonials

Elaine


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