The Evolution of Blue Mountain Cards
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Blue Mountain Cards offers a wide selection of greeting cards created in its signature style of soothing nature illustrations combined with freeform poetry and prose. A large portion of the company business comes from its online Blue Mountain Cards greeting card products, which are delivered through electronic mail over the Internet.
Boulder, Colorado husband and wife team Stephen Schutz and Susan Polis Schutz started Blue Mountain Arts (now including Blue Mountain Cards) as a way to spend time together and share their hobbies of painting and writing, respectively. Stephen and Susan combined their watercolor and poetry design into posters that appealed to the early 1970s hippie culture and convinced a local bookstore to carry the posters, which quickly sold out. Other stores quickly followed suit. Stephen and Susan subsequently turned their artistic talents to the development of Blue Mountain Cards greeting cards and were the first to develop blank all occasion greeting cards for personal messages. They also changed the content of preprinted greeting cards from the then prevalent rigid and formalistic poetic style to the expressive freeform poetry that Susan favored. Their customer base grew along with their product line, which soon included calendars, stationery and gift books.
Blue Mountain Cards entered the Internet age in 1996 when it launched its website offering free electronic greeting cards. Blue Mountain Cards electronic greeting cards were born from the Schutz family practice of communicating with their son, away at college, through email. The family would send birthday and holiday greetings to each other in this manner, and the Blue Mountain Cards electronic greeting card industry began.
Blue Mountain Cards started with 35 basic birthday, graduation, thank you, and emotional support designs. An email notification containing a link to the Blue Mountain Cards website was sent to the card recipient, who accessed the card through an electronic pick up window on the site. What set the Blue Mountain Cards products apart from its competitors was that they were free of charge and capable of being edited to include a personal message from the sender.
Blue Mountain Cards now includes over a thousand different designs for every mainstream and obscure American holiday, as well as those of other cultures and religions, with French and Spanish language accessibility. Blue Mountain Cards has since grown into one of the most visited sites on the World Wide Web, mainly through customer and recipient word of mouth.
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