Greetings!   Our vision for GCUniverse is to revolutionize the Greeting Cards industry by empowering artists and building the best greeting card content anywhere in the world.    
 
Thanks to all of you, 213 artists and counting, we are well on our way!   We have over 3,500 cards, great, unique and direct from the artist cards - an incredible achievement considering just 2.5 months ago we started with zero cards.  
 
A couple of items to note as we pace ourselves and remember to be patient with progress...
 
o GCUniverse page ranking with Google is currently zero.  It typically takes 6 months for search engines to consider a site legitimate.   We experienced the same wait with DateBoxx.com and Birthday-Reminders.com.   Google's robot is scanning GCU pages every night, so continue focusing on your card title, keywords, and inner verse text.  We are confident that our ranking will be fairly high by summertime.
 
o We currently carry 2,500 stock greeting cards on our other BigDates-Solution sites.  Once we have all our categories filled up, we'll take these stock cards down and only feature cards by GCUniverse artists.  We still have many categories without greeting cards like Kwanzaa, April Fool's, and Rosh Hashanah to name a few.
 
o We've just finished the project of importing the GCU content into the new Google's new product database, called Google Base.    This import will take place every Monday.   Try searching for your cards at http://base.google.com.     You can also see a full listing of GCU cards at: http://base.google.com/base/search?authorid=1579573
 
Here is how you can continue helping make GCUniverse the ultimate greeting card site:
 
1. Continue to create and add specific content titles/keywords/inner verses - create cards with a purpose, for specific occasions, relationships, ages and genders.  Fill up the categories that have 0 cards.  
 
2. Display your Card Widget on as many sites as possible.  The more links pointing to your storefront the higher the search rankings are.    You will see customization options for your Card Widget by end of the month.
 
3. Help us spread the word to other artists.  It may seem counter productive to invite more competition, but the only way we will enjoy huge success is for GCUniverse to become known through out the internet as the ultimate destination site for greeting cards.
 
We have so many plans for the future.  It's very exciting and we're grateful to have you on this journey with us.
 
Thank you for being a part of the GCUniverse community.  Thank you for being involved and vocal in helping not only our team but your peer artists as well.    Thank you for helping us reshape the Greeting Card landscape.
 
Nasser Gaemi
CEO, BigDates Solutions
GreetingCardUniverse.com

Dear Nasser...I've just opened my store front. I have all "blank inside" note cards but I would like to custom design OFF-BEAT humorous greetings. I was reading one of your forum posting and it mentioned a card "congratulations on your vascectomy" (sp). Well that's pretty funny -can you give me a few other "milestone" ideas to start?

This information is wonderful!  I am SO glad I jumped in early with GCU--I remember reading over how this site was going to function---and I, too, thought 'wow! this could really work!'
 
So--high five to you, GCU, for the follow-through in advertising, marketing, new features and more.  
 
Look forward to great things in the future---I see that my main portfolio page has encouraged most of my viewers here and have recently added this site to my facebook, aol hometown  and myspace.
 
Keep up the great work!
-Kerra

I've only been here a few weeks, but I couldn't be more pleased.  GCU staff is helpful and supportive.  It's hard to find that kind of bond.  I am very happy to be a part of this incredible indeavor.  God bless... and thanks for ALL
 
gina

Thanks for the reply.  That's awesome! You guys rock!    btw, I sold my first card yesterday! woo hoo!
Lora