Customize your Holiday Card today!
During the 2003 Christmas Holiday season we had over a 1,000,000 visitors a day view our card.

A million visitors a day that sees your company name can be of real value. Will some percent of those visitors take the time to look your company over? Yes. Approximately fifteen percent of the visitors that saw our 2003 holiday card came to our website and a percentage of those discussed the services that we offer with us. The number of visitors that will visit your card will vary greatly. We recommend that you send an email about your card to your customer base; we’ll provide you with a sample email. You will find that your customers will forward the email you send them on and then it all can begin to grow out of control. It can be great marketing for minimal costs.

Our one-day requirements at our peak last year required two OC3’s to support our download activity.
Our largest one-day transfer requirements were in excess of 330 GB for 2003. We’re afraid to even estimate what it could require this year. We hope to be able to keep our card online throughout the holiday season this year.
As of December 1st, 2004 we’re running at 400% of last year. Understand that you may never see this kind of exposure and if you do, you may have to participate in the program for two or three seasons in a row before you get those kind of results.

I’ve included the following table so you can get an idea of the resources it can take to distribute a card like ours.

Circuit	Capacity	T1 Equivalents
T1	1.544 Mbps	1 – T1
DS3	44.7 Mbps	28 – T1’s
OC3	155.5 Mbps	100 – T1’s	We required 2 of these concurrently for 2003.
OC12	622 Mbps	402 – T1’s
OC48	2.4 Gbps	1650 - T1’s
OC192	13.2 Gbps	6632 - T1’s

Now that we’ve explained a little about what it can take to host a card like this, our prices begin at $1,000 per season to customize our card with your Text, Company Name, Logo and Hyperlink. We will also do custom development of a card specific to your company. Customization of our existing card can be done within a day or two. Development of a custom card will require from 3 to 6 months lead-time and cost considerably more.

Because of the resource requirements for this type of service we only offer the customization of our card with our hosting services. With custom development of your own card we will provide the files so you can host it yourself if you so desire, but recommend against it.

If you want to discuss a customized card for you or your company, please contact us at sales@blastcomm.com