Tuesday, December 02, 2008

To mail or e-mail holiday cards

So the great holiday card debate continues…. I have received three e-mails to date with holidays cards. One was an attached PDF that didn’t excite me at all. One was a link to a Blue Mountain e-card (boring). And finally, I received one today from Fish & Richardson (see http://cl.exct.net/?ju=fe5f117475670c7e741c&ls=fdeb16787162027c7d107870&m=fef91273766d05&l=fe8c15777461037470&s=fe3717717563047b741575&jb=ffcf14&t=) that hit the mark. This is the first e-mail holiday card that I’ve received so far this year that I thought was very well done: very professional, well branded and a good use of technology.


Now – if you’re not going to do as good a job as Fish & Richardson, please think twice about sending the e-card for the holidays – especially not to your important clients and prospects. Regardless of whether you’re a law firm, accounting firm, marketing agency, public relations outfit, or any other service-based organization, whenever you send correspondence; you should put your best foot forward.

Also remember that a well thought out, clever holiday card is always more effective that the typical and mundane “peace on earth” with the dove or earth image. They’re run-of-the-mill and unless you would call you’re company “run-of-the-mill” then you shouldn’t use them.

4 comments:

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Anonymous said...

Thank you for your compliments Gina! We produced the e-card with Liz Neal, Director of Events & Communications, and your feedback means a great deal to us. In this media glutted world, every single thing we produce has to carry its own water - beautifully.
Thanks again for the feedback.

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Anonymous said...

Thanks for the good tips. If one goes the mail route, may we humbly suggest popping in the envelope one of LawTunes' (www.LawTunes.com) lawyer-created law-related legal humor rock-and-roll CDs, "Merry Lexmas From The Lawtunes," "The Lawyer's Holiday Humor Album," "Legal Holidaze," and the latest, "The Lawtunes: Live At Blackacre"? Songs include "It's Gonna Be A Billable Christmas," "Rainmaker Reindeer," "Hey, Santa, I Appeal," "North Pole Bar Exam," "I Got A Footnote In My Stocking," "We're All Just Elves," "Ridin' On A Red-Eye With Santa On Christmas Eve," and many more, taking on the law, lawyers, and legal practice in a hilarious, but positive, way. LawTunes' albums are dedicated to the proposition that lawyers' zealous representation of clients and furtherance of the public good can be only enhanced by a healthy willingness of lawyers to poke fun at themselves appropriately on occasion. They contribute to the effort to make people think a little differently about lawyers, and show that attorneys are not necessarily humorless, boring, or incapable of self-deprecation. Thanks again and Happy (Legal) Holidays.