# Dogs Trust creates greetings card shop on Facebook

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2011/11/17/dogs-trust-creates-greetings-card-shop-facebook/
- Published: 2011-11-17T12:13:10+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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Dogs Trust has created a greeting card shop as part of its page on Facebook, allowing
users of the site to send greeting cards to friends and family and raise funds for
the charity. The charity claims that this is the first greeting card shop to be 
launched on Facebook.

The card buying platform was developed by greeting card firm Charity Greetings, 
and it offers cards for a wide variety of occasions, including of course Christmas.

Founder of [Charity Greetings](http://www.joincharitygreetings.com), Craig Hartzel
said: “There are 800 million Facebook users worldwide, and it’s estimated that 1
in 6 web pages looked at in the UK is a Facebook page. It seems only right to treat
Facebook as if it is a separate Internet platform. For this reason it makes sense
to integrate our charity card shop technology within Facebook’s pages to help charities.”

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Users of the shop are invited to send a donation to Dogs Trust at the same time 
as sending the card.

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_Dogs Trust greetings
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Jacqui O’Beirne, Digital Manager of Dogs Trust said: “We’re always looking at new
ways to raise awareness of the charity and our current online card shop is consistently
providing a new stream of revenue for us.

“Being the first charity to launch the Facebook card shop was an easy decision for
us and we can’t wait for our 230,000 fans to start using the platform.”

www.facebook.com/DogsTrust

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