Wedding Cards

by Faisal Khan on July 9, 2005





Weddings take place almost all throughout the year. Wedding cards are perhaps the epic core of all such events. It seems to me that there might be a market for placing of wedding card orders on the internet. I am sure there is a HUGE market out there in the Middle East, North America, UK/Europe where desi parents would like to have the facility to simply go to some website, see the latest prevailing card designs in Pakistan. Fill in a few keystrokes and voila! Wedding cards are now enroute to you.

Farfetched? I don’t think so. Just a matter of timing and ease of use for all.





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Carson Washington

i do most wedding invitations on photoshop and also on MS Word*`,

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nida usman khan

okay. thanks alot for your suggesstion!=)
but you see im just 18 now, im thinking of starting a little too early in life and be able to pay for my expenses.i have a group of 4 friends and we are all thinking of starting something but when we think of anything , we end up with a no.
i guess theres not a lot of problem with the finance, but starting as small would be the best for us.
i would want you to give us a few ideas about several types of small scale business suitable for our age. i know i may be sounding weird when im saying im 18 and i want to start a business with my friends. but ive been thinking of it for a long time and now ive decided that i really do want to and will do something. INSHALAH !...
that too with you helping us with your ideas and suggesstions !

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Faisal Khan

Give desi stock photography bank a shot. None exists right now.

Google for "stock photography" - or visit sites like Corbis. Get people (children, men, women all ages) in different scenarios and shoot pictures with a digital camera (a professional camera set / person would be required). Watermark these images and 'lease' them on a website. Everyone needs 'desi' images. If say you are able to sell (rather lease the entire collection) to 20 companies at $100/month (unlimited access), that's like $2000/month. Advertising agencies go for it. Freelance photographers can add to your library by giving you their work, and you can do a revenue sharing deal with them. Your collection would need to be 1,000-2,000 images to start out with.

There is a post elsewhere on this blog - I'll have to dig it up - and that is for an Internet (only) radio station. Read that as well.

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nida usman khan

i think its a great idea!
what if someone wants to start a small scale business of printing cards.. you think its possible in karachi ?
please give me some ideas and suggestions.. i really would like to start this business!
it'll be of great help if you also provide me with ways of start-up .
hope to see your reply soon Mr. Faisal khan.
thanks.

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Faisal Khan

Nida: I don't think it will be a pragmatic idea of starting a printing business, there are already enough of them already. What you can bring to the table is unique proposition, that is your IP (Intellectual Property) by means of design / creativity. An easy way to start up would be to amass a significant amount of funding that you will spend on online advertising. Facebook advertising woks too, but you really need to target the ethnicity that is ex-pat.

A normal website with a checkout mechanism from say 2checkout.com would suffice. If you need more info, you can always email fk at faisalkhan dot com

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Mahrukh

I think this is a really good idea!
All the desi parents hate spending too much money on wedding invitations (because they are expensive in other countries). They also want the "chamki /doli /ghora / dulhan" designs.....

Hope someone will benefit from this!

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