Please send us your News stories and jpegs of cards for our Gallery to feature on our Thinking of You Week website and take advantage of all the activity planning for this year.
Thinking of You Week 2023 is 18th-24th September. We already have key retailers signed up, in addition there will be lots of consumer PR and social media activity. This means that lots of consumers are going to be googling – and visiting our Thinking of You Week website to find out what it is all about.
To promote your businesses, and help raise your brand profile, feature on our consumer-facing Thinking of You Week website, and we’ll help send customers to your website.
How to get your brand featured!
Our Thinking Of You Week website is aimed at consumers, to share the joys and benefits of card sending. When we speak to the press this is where we direct them.
We feature News items from members, and designs in our Gallery that relate to Thinking of You. We use this site to encourage everyone to send cards just to say ‘hello’, ‘miss you’, ‘thinking of you’.
Feature in our Gallery
To feature in our Gallery please email admin@gca.cards the following 3 things:
1. Jpeg showing the front of the card
2. Your company name
3. Text, including a description and the link (to either your website or a retailer’s) to where people can buy the card. 20 words max.
Feature in our News blog
If you have donated cards to a local care home, made changes to your business that have a consumer interest, or any have any other Thinking of You relevant stories please share these with admin@gca.cards for Thinking of You News, we need:
- Photos or card images
- Headline
- Text describing the activity, include location (local radio are often looking for stories)
Background to Thinking of You Week
Thinking of You Week takes place in September every year. This event is designed to harness the emotional power of cards, to create a wave of love, caring and happiness, by encouraging everyone to send cards to different people during the week, just to say ‘hello’ share a joke, ‘thinking of you’.
Thinking of You Week encourages everyone to send cards, reminding them of the joy of receiving and sending cards. Launched in 2014 by the UK GCA Thinking of You Week has now spread to other countries such as the USA and Australia, who have their own websites, but use our branding.
Supported by PR and social media. Retailers across the UK join in, using Thinking of You Week signage to encourage their customers to send cards, and driving traffic to our Thinking of You Week website to see what it’s all about.
Further Information
Click the links below to find out:
GCA’s latest updates on Thinking of You Week 2023 to see who’s joining in!
Visit ToYW News blog to see what others in the industry are doing
Visit ToYW Gallery and click on the card image to buy cards from GCA Members
Marketing Your Business for Thinking of You Week
To access and Download the 2023 ToYW Toolkit
Find out more About ToYW
To update your Members’ Directory entry, log in and go to the Dashboard, then click on Members’ Profile
Click here for more about the 2022 GCA Schools Project connecting UK children with schools in Ghana
See our blog on GCA Members’ previous years activity for more ideas