I had a great time at the expo! One of the highlights was meeting a mom who had rented a stork from us 3 years ago. She had her 3 year old daughter with her at the expo. It's heartwarming to know that we played a part in announcing the arrival of that sweet little girl.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
The Winners Are....
I had a great time at the expo! One of the highlights was meeting a mom who had rented a stork from us 3 years ago. She had her 3 year old daughter with her at the expo. It's heartwarming to know that we played a part in announcing the arrival of that sweet little girl.
Friday, May 8, 2009
May Sale!!
FREE Candy Bar Wrapper CD
($195 value!)
with any purchase over $1,000
Mention this offer at time of order placement

All of our candy bar labels match our whimsical signs.
They make the perfect addition to any rental.
It's also a nice way to be able to offer something to your customers for
their special occasion even if you don't offer a sign to fit their needs.
For example: If you don't carry our wedding sign,
you can still offer your customers personalized wedding candy bars!
http://www.sweet-greetings.com/business/candy.html
Offer ends May 31, 2009
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Welcome to our newest sign customer!
The Traveling Stork
Palm Beach Garden, Fl
Offering the following signs:
Pink Storks
Blue Storks
Pea Pod
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Testimonials

Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Recent sign rental

Saturday, April 25, 2009
*New Phone Number
NEW NUMBER (717) 889-2752
(717) 932-7821 will be disconnected June 1, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Twitter!
Monday, April 20, 2009
Testimonial
Winston Salem, NC
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
April/May SALE!
Purchase any Completed Stork
Business Package
and pay in full by May 31
and we will give you $100!

and pay in full by May 31
and we will give you $50!
Take advantage of this terrific opportunity to receive up to $100 cash!
Tax time can be the perfect opportunity to invest in your future.
Starting your own stork rental/lawn announcement business can provide you a long term income that will benefit you many years into the future ...and it's SO much fun!
Must mention this offer when placing order
Expires May 31, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
Introducing our newest item...
One of the best marketing techniques for stork rentals is by simply setting your brochures out in locations where new parents and friends & family of new parents will see them. What could be more eye-catching than an exact replica of our full size 7 foot stork... in an adorable 18" compact size! Attached to our sweet little stork is an acrylic brochure holder. These are perfect for those high-end locations (baby boutiques, baby registries, hospitals, obgyn's etc.). They are bright, whimsical and just oh-so-cute!
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BUY 3, GET 1 FREE!
Purchase 3 adorable brochure holders for $22.95 each and
receive the 4th one FREE! ($22.95 value!)
Expires May 31, 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Birthday Greetings
Why celebrate with a typical bouquet of flowers and a card when you can put a beautiful lawn greeting in the yard!

Friday, March 27, 2009
Welcome to our newest sign customers!
My Happy Greetings
Georgetown, Ind
www.MyHappyGreetings.com
Offering the following signs:
Pink Storks
Blue Storks
Pea Pod
Baby Shower
Birthday Cake
Fairy Princess
Fireman
Personalized Candy Bars
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(awaiting business name)
West Des-Moines, Iowa
(awaiting web address)
Offering the following signs:
Pink Storks
Blue Storks
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Storks on the Fly
Orange, CA
www.StorksOnTheFly.com
Offering the following signs:
Pink Storks
Blue Storks
Pea Pod
Personalized Candy Bars
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John Lam
(awaiting business name)
Richmond, VA
(awaiting web address)
Offering the following signs:
Pink Storks
Blue Storks
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Meeting a business partner
We got to chat about the business and share ideas (she even gave me a great idea about organizing a binder of photos to take with me when promoting my signs!). I wish our visit could have been longer, but I was thrilled to have gotten to meet her and her significant other, Ferdinando.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
March SALE!
on your entire order with the purchase of
any stork or pea pod business package!
Take advantage of this terrific opportunity to receive FREE SHIPPING!
Due to the large size of our signs, shipping can often run anywhere from $100 - $200 (or more) depending on the number of signs and delivery destination. Put your mind at ease that you wont be wasting your money on shipping. Use that money to put right back into your pocket or use it toward purchasing that extra sign you've had your eye on.
Orders must be placed by March 31, 2009
Must mention this offer when placing order
Friday, February 20, 2009
Welcome to our newest sign customers!
Yardagins
Largo, FL
www.yardagins.com
Offering the following signs:
Pink Storks
Blue Storks
Yellow Storks
Pea Pod
My Sweet Storks
Largo, FL
www.mysweetstorks.com
Offering the following signs:
Pink Storks
Blue Storks
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Stork sign shown on 'King of the Hill'
Sunday, February 8, 2009
New Birth Announcement Sign!

7 foot tall birth announcement sign!
"We've Added a Pea to our Pod!"
There are all kinds of ways to get creative with the pea pod by including several family members at once. Each pea pod comes with 3 peas. Here are a few ideas of how the peas can be personalized:
1. New Baby
2. Sibling
3. Sibling
1. New Baby
2. Sibling(s)
3. Parents
1. New Baby
2. Sibling(s)
3. Pet(s)

1. New Baby
2. Mom
3. Dad
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
FREE SHIPPING - Personalized Children's Books
Monday, January 5, 2009
Welcome to our newest sign customer!
from El Paso, TX
Offering the following signs:
Storks
Fairy Princess
Fireman
Butterfly
Soccer
Baseball
Thursday, January 1, 2009
SALE!
-- NEW YEAR SPECIAL! --
GET ONE FREE!
($150 - $200 value!)
Buy 12 DIY sign vinyls
GET TWO FREE!
($300 - $400 value!)
Mention 'New Year Special' when placing order
Offer expires Jan. 31, 2009

Our Do It Yourself vinyls are the perfect option for those who are looking to save a little money by putting their signs together themselves. Simply apply our beautiful self-adhesive vinyls to the sign board of your choice and cut them out! Step by step instructions provided.
www.sweet-greetings.com
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Sweet Greetings featured on Yahoo! News

"Celebrating Birth Makes for Profitable Home Business
Despite Faltering Economy"
Click link above to view screen-shot of story
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How To Start A Stork Rental - ebook on sale!
Are you considering starting your own stork rental business?
Our 'How To' manual includes information on marketing, how to run your business, creating a business name, setting up and taking down your stork, staying organized, scheduling, what materials and tools to use, credit card processing, how to handle taxes, lettering and even how to deal with competition.You'll receive examples of our business cards, brochures, post cards and advertisements. You'll learn how to handle customers, how to use your stork for indoor events and much more!

Thursday, December 11, 2008
*** DECEMBER SPECIAL ***
FREE Candy Bar Wrapper CD
($195 value!)
with any purchase over $1,000
Mention this offer at time of order placement

Add sales to your business with our Personalized Candy Bar Wrapper CD.
All of our candy bar labels match our whimsical signs.
They make the perfect addition to any rental.
It's also a nice way to be able to offer something to your customers for
their special occasion even if you don't offer a sign to fit their needs.
For example: If you don't carry our wedding sign,
you can still offer your customers personalized wedding candy bars!
http://www.sweet-greetings.com/business/candy.html
Sunday, October 19, 2008
How do you put lawn greetings into frozen ground?
How do you put signs in frozen ground?
Thankfully it's not as bad as it may seem and YES, you CAN install in freezing weather with the help of a few simple tools. There are two tools called a Post Driver and a Post Puller that make this task very manageable. They are special tools made specifically for the purpose of installing/removing posts (not just in frozen ground, but all types of ground). With the Post Puller you can pop your post out of the ground like a cork coming out of a wine bottle (no more trying to wrestle a 7 foot lawn stork out of the dirt!). Worse case scenario you can always bring a thermos of hot water or a drill to soften the ground if needed (but this is not common).
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Friday, October 17, 2008
Customers story in newspaper!
LINK TO STORY
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
OCTOBERS SPECIAL!
FREE Candy Bar Business CD
with any purchase over $1,000 ($195 value!)
Mention this offer at time of order placement

Add sales to your business with our Personalized Candy Bar CD.
All of our candy bar labels match our whimsical signs.
They make the perfect addition to any rental.
It's also a nice way to be able to offer something to your customers for
their special occasion even if you don't offer a sign to fit their needs.
For example: If you don't carry our wedding sign,
you can still offer your customers personalized wedding candy bars!
http://www.sweet-greetings.com/business/candy.html
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Testimonials - October
_"Thank you Sweet Greetings and Thank you Carrie for the opportunity to acquire our own business. I am so glad that I found you.
It was March 2008 when I had an idea. My daughter had given birth to twins in October after already having had two other girls. We searched high and low for a stork and settled for one that we were just happy with but not ecstatic. I then thought about providing this service myself. I wanted someone that rented our storks to say "wow". That is when I researched on the internet and came across your business -Sweet Greetings. What can I say --YOU WERE RIGHT!!!! You set us on the right track and gave us all the right info. Your storks are a breath of fresh air. Everybody loves them. They bring a smile to all that see them. The business is a happy one. We are growing little by little and enjoying every minute of it. I am hoping to be a stay at home Grandma some day with a thriving business and now that might not be just a dream. I'll let you know.
Once again --THANK YOU CARRIE of Sweet Greetings""
Janet Lewin & Ferdinando Musico
J& N Storkworld Inc.
Staten Island, NY
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I just wanted to thank you for the opportunity you have given me to start my own small business. All of your support has been wonderful ! You have enabled me to keep my number one job as a stay at home mom and help earn extra income for my family. The feedback on the storks has been wonderful and all of my customers have been very satisfied with your product. Thanks again for everything!"
Jenny Hausch
Adorable Storks
Crystal Lake, IL
"First, let me tell you I LOVE the signs!!! We unpacked them last Friday and I was very happy with the quality. They look even better than I imagined."
Kristen
Action Attraction
Tallahassee, Fl
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"I wish I would of done this sooner"! That's what I've said since choosing "Sweet Greetings" to start my home-based business renting storks.
I live near (and offer my storks) in the town where the "Yard Storks" began. I've never been worried about competing with one of the most recognized stork companies w/ franchises nationwide. I knew right away my storks were going to do well since they're an "updated" looking stork, brightly colored & I have found no others out there close to them! AT ALL! I searched (and I still look out of curiousity) to see if I could find any others that I would want to claim as mine! One. Only one other company did I find and it's in Canada (Sweet Greetings has still been my best choice)! I know I might sound biased, maybe I'm too picky, but I wanted something that looks classy, but yet cute for the purpose it's for! I didn't like the ones that look airbrushed, or like they were cut in the high school wood shop.
When I opened up my storks after they arrived I was so pleased & excited about offering these guys! I am just glad that I was first in my area to get hold of these storks & claim my territory! I hope to be going strong in 5 years & re-up for the same areas again!
Carrie has been there for me from problems I ran into w/ the posts (nothing major!) to helping me with ideas to get some free advertising (and it worked!). I've never had a problem getting an answer to my questions when I asked & it's always in a timely manner at that!
I hope I don't sound like an infomercial. I'm here on my own freewill posting because I'm happy with my choices that I've made for my home business.
Carrie, forgive me for taking up so much space on the blog page. Thank you for all the help you've given me so far! I'm very pleased (as you can tell) and think if everybody knew about your storks you'd be a millionaire!
Thanks for everything,
Lynn Krebs
"Stork Greetings & More"
Dunn, NC
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"The Sweet Greetings illustrations are loved by old and young alike! As soon as I saw the Sweet Greetings designs, I knew I wanted to do business with them."
Karri Hopson-Pape
A Sign to Celebrate
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Monday, October 13, 2008
Welcome to our newest customers!
www.HouseStorking.com
Offering:
Personalized Candy Bars
Lawn Greetings Coming Soon!
Maple Shade, NJ
Offering the following signs:
Noah's Ark
Just Married
Showered With Love
Pea Pod
Grand Slam - Baseball
Score - Soccer
Train
Fire Fighter
Ballerina
Fairy Princess
Butterfly
Personalized Candy Bars
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Kelly R. from Yard Occasions
Winston Salem, NC
Offering:
Stork Rentals
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Q. How did you get started? Can I do this?
A: I started many years ago when I was reading a parenting magazine that spotlighted a mom who worked from home. She rented storks. After thinking about it I realized that it would be the perfect home business for me! I had a baby boy and I was (am) obsessed with anything baby/kid related. I went down to my basement and drew a stork onto plywood and hand-painted it. It wasn't the best looking thing, but I was proud of it. I had been a professional graphic designer for almost 10 years, so I made my own brochures, post cards, business cards and website. I was hoping to get a few rentals a month and make a few bucks. Thankfully, I started getting a lot of rentals.
Q. Do I need to purchase a business opportunity or can I just make my own signs?
A. Yes, you can do it on your own, but please take a moment to read a little bit about what it's like to start from scratch. Most times once people realize what it's really like, they realize the value in starting with a business opp. and why we have so many happy customers.
Over time I started to get a lot of people asking me how they could start a stork rental business. That's when we decided to start selling business opportunities to help others quickly and easily jump into the fun part of the business (while avoiding the nitty gritty of starting from the ground up). The next request from our local customers as well as business partners was for other lawn greetings (birthday's, weddings, graduations & more). That's when I realized that I needed to rethink my business.
I decided that my pathetic one-piece 7 foot plywood & paint stork just wasn't going to cut it in this type of business. It took me over 3 years of trial and error (and more error and more error) to make the best signs out there. I've spent thousands of dollars on every kind of materials imaginable, trying to the find the best ones (the ones that would outlast any other). I've used plywood and mdo wood and pvc and latex paint and oil based paints and paints that cost $80/gallon. I've hand-drawn and painted signs, I've used pieces of colored vinyl, I've had images printed on vinyl from many different companies all claiming to have the same quality products (they didn't). I've tested clear vinyl coatings, vinyl spray coats and rolled clear coats...and I've left my signs au natural. I tried several structural designs to find what would hold up in all weather conditions. I've had one and two piece storks; and storks that had more pieces than I can count. I've played with various staking devices to find the one that is the sturdiest and easiest to install. I've had freehand-cut signs (with a variety of different tools - some worked, some didn't) and I've had machine-cut signs. Over all those years, I learned what works and what doesn't. I feel that we now have the best quality signs on the market. Now that we've perfected our materials, it was time to interview professional illustrators from around the world to find the one artist that could bring my sign visions to life. I found her! (fyi, this industry watches the web like a hawk looking for sign images that infringe on the copyright of others...just because something is on the internet does NOT make it 'free' and/or usable and altering someone elses images can also be considered infringement. Be careful!) Our illustrator is the amazing artist behind all of our signs! I later used my design background to design and build all of our personalized candy bar labels and our candy bar business CD as well as the marketing materials for our customers and our 30 page 'How to Start A Stork Rental' ebook.
....all from my home while raising my 3 little boys! Sweet Greetings is not a gigantic corporation with a huge staff. I am a mom who has devoted her career to this industry and helping others celebrate special moments. I love getting to know my business partners and helping them succeed. I don't do it all alone though! I have my wonderful husband and my family helping produce and ship our signs.
So, yes, you can start on your own, but by deciding to purchase a business opportunity rather than starting from nothing, you save precious time (and money) by avoiding the road I took. Most people want to do the fun part and not the logistical part that we've already done for you.
If you would like to know a few other things about me, please feel free to check out these online interviews:
"The WAHM Behind Sweet Greetings"
WAHM.Business-Opportunities.biz
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
How To Start A Stork Rental - Ebook on Amazon.com!

Our Ebook "How to Start A Stork Rental" is now on amazon.com! As of now it is only available in Kindle version on amazon, but we're still very excited. If you are looking for our regular email version, you can easily purchase it from our website with a Paypal account: Order Ebook or simply call us to pay by credit card (717) 932-7821. The next step we're in the midst of taking is having a printed book version available at major online retailers - and hopefully bookstores as well!
Monday, September 22, 2008
Vinyl Cutters
A: A vinyl cutter is a small device that you attach to your computer. With this cutter you are able to simply type in the text that you would like on your keepsake (you can choose your font, your size etc..). Next you click 'print', but instead of it printing out on paper, it actually has a little blade in it that cuts your letters out of self-adhesive vinyl. It's very cool! You then apply all your vinyl at once which means all your letters are spaced perfectly, lined up perfectly, straight and look professional. The vinyl comes in 10 yard and 50 yard rolls in hundreds of colors.

Do you need a vinyl cutter? NO.
Is it a helpful tool? YES. When most people are first starting out they don't have the budget for a vinyl cutter (they start around $600). It's often an item that people work up toward as their business grows and profits. Once you have one you wonder how you lived without it, but if you've never had one, a $3 paint pen is perfect for personalizing your keepsakes!
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Welcome to our newest sign customers!
www.ActionAttractionPartyRental.com
Offering:
Storks
Fairy Princess
Baby Shower
Pea Pod
Butterfly
Tractor
Cake
Baseball
Tea Party
Personalized Candy Bars
Inflatables and more!
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Karen W.
Lauderdale, MS
Offering:
Fairy Princess
Just Married
Baby Shower
Pea Pod
Tractor
Cake
Large Numbers
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www.BloomingAffairs.net
Offering:
Fairy Princess
Fireman
Baby Shower
Personalized Candy Bars
Friday, September 12, 2008
SEPTEMBER SPECIAL!
$100 OFF!
Choose any 4 storks you like!
Pink and Blue are the most popular, but it's also great to have neutral colors as well.
Click to view details about our 4 Stork Business Package
Expires September 30, 2008
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
Welcome to Sweet Greetings!

I've started this blog to tell the world all about lawn greetings and how to run a lawn greeting business. A few days a week I will be updating the blog with fun stories, valuable business tips, great marketing ideas and more! Often times when people call me to inquire about our lawn greetings, I have a habit of rambling on and on. The reason I do so is because I love what I do!




Please check back often! My goal is to fill this blog up with awesome info about the biz and share with everyone the joy that comes with owning a lawn greeting rental business.
Thanks for stopping by!
:) Carrie