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Eco-Friendly Business Cards for your Grave Care Business

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If you have read our coursework on how to start and operate your own Grave Care Business, you know that we outline many methods of advertising and marketing your business. In our never ending search for interesting marketing ideas, we have come across a variation on a familiar theme.

While business cards are common to most businesses, the cards are often uninspiring. Though it’s a good idea to file cards away in a place you can find them when you need them, the back of business cards are often used to jot a quick note on and then thrown away or forgotten.

I recently came across something that I think is a pretty neat business idea. Several companies are making eco-friendly seed paper that is embedded with wildflower seeds. The biodegradable paper can be buried and the wildflowers will take root and emerge the following spring.

Though the paper is less durable than normal business card paper, the business card generates a lot of interest and potential customers seem to take notice of the cards. Also, if they do bury the card, they are reminded of the business name once the wildflowers beautify their flowerbeds.

I also think it is a good idea to give customers two cards…one to bury and one to keep.

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Time-Lapse Photography of a Sunrise in a Cemetery

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I’ve been experimenting lately with time-lapse photography in a few local cemeteries. 

Time-lapse is a fascinating photographic/video technique.  The video below is just a short sample.  This video is composed of ~150 individual pictures compressed into one short video.  I can speed up or slow down the time-lapse rate.  For this example, I used a slow rate of one picture taken every 30 seconds and displayed for .30 second per frame.  At this rate, the sun looks to be slowly climbing the tree immediately behind the gravestone.

This video was taken a couple weeks after the Vernal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere.  You can see the sun is slowly curving upward during sunrise.  I will revisit this site during the Summer Solstice to see if I can capture a straighter path of the sun’s rise.

Mixing various photographic techniques is very appealing to your Grave Care customers.  Customers appreciate various views and video segments which are more enjoyable to watch than just basic photographs.

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