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Pine Needle Card Company

Leveraging NH's natural and business resources

-- by Frank and Leslie Grima, Pine Needle Card Company, Franconia, NH

My wife Leslie and I believe that capturing a moment in time and spending some quality time in the great outdoors is an excellent way to keep healthy and in our case, to earn a living. It only seemed natural to us to try our hand at making note cards out of the pictures we had taken. So, Pine Needle Card Company was born in November 2003. With over 80 retail stores now selling our note cards, we are pretty busy around here these days. However, Leslie and I always take some time during each day to "stop and smell the roses".

We are the owners and photographers for Pine Needle Card Company here in Franconia, NH. Living in the heart of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, nature's splendor and beauty surrounds us. There is so much to do and see in this beautiful area or Northern New England. It doesn't matter what tickles your fancy, walking, hiking, biking, swimming, skiing, all these things are common place and quite doable here. The natural majestic beauty of the Presidential Mountain ranges will make any photo enthusiast giddy with delight. There is so much to see and experience if you take the time to relax and get in touch with nature.

That being said, my wife Leslie just loves to photograph and an excellent photographer, she is. She started photographing nature years ago and she is the main photographer for our note cards at Pine Needle Cards. I started photographing a short time ago in comparison to her. I truly love to get out and spend some time exploring new places and capturing some of nature's best with her. It doesn't matter where we go, Baxter State Park in Maine, Wells Beach, ME, or just outside our door yard in Franconia, New England is beautiful.

Anyone around the World can see our note cards and order some if they'd like on our website at www.pineneedlecards.com

As you can see in the photos, the subject matter is diverse and we only put the best of the best pictures in note card form. All of our note cards are blank inside as to facilitate one's own interpretation of the picture when sending it to a loved one or friend. Travelers to our area and World Wide Web enthusiasts just love the pictures and much to our delight, they can't seem to get enough Pine Needle Cards.

Our cards are sold in over 80 retail stores. Now it wasn't easy getting our Pine Needle Note Cards in all these stores, it took some work. We hooked up with and joined www.nhmade.com which is a group of folks who make NH products that bear the NH MADE LOGO. We are very proud of the fact that our note cards are printed on NH paper by a NH printer. These folks at NH MADE were a valuable resource to us at Pine Needle Cards. The integrated network of NH Craftsmen and NH Artisans was an ideal market for our cards to be introduced to...after all, who wouldn't want to send a nice note card in a gift basket or to someone you love whom you've bought a excellently made NH craft? I should also mention that NH Made has two Retail outlet stores on I-95 North and South in Hampton, NH right next to the State Liquor Stores in a main corridor used by millions of folks each year on their way to and from the beautiful State of Maine. The uniting of our businesses seemed destined.

There are other organizations that we looked into and joined such as WREN. The Women's Rural Entrepreneurial Network which has a retail store where our cards are sold and a huge network of valuable resources for other entrepreneurs who love working for themselves and have a zest for running a business in the North Country.

These resources are in every community and prove valuable to folks just starting a business as well as folks who may be running a more established business. Many of these type of organizations provide an excellent venue for key Courses and "think tanks" for making your business a success.

One key point to make is the fact that all of these resources seem to have done lots of your "homework" for you, already. We were able to do press releases and public announcements for free with the click of a button. All the resources were at our fingertips and ready for us to use and use them, we did. Press releases announcing new products or business's are very welcomed in most newspapers and trade magazines. Use the tools you have... as my Mother used to say, "given lemons? Make lemonade.." !

We encourage everyone with a love of nature and a zest for the best Mother Nature offers to get out and take a hike, walk, bike, fish, canoe, and spend some time to... as our motto says, "...live, love, and celebrate life..."

Cheers!

Frank and Leslie Grima
".. live, love, and celebrate life..."
Pine Needle Card Company
112 Coal Hill Road
Franconia, NH 03580
603-823-5907 - Office
603-616-5668 - Cell
www.pineneedlecards.com

Upcoming Events

Feb 21 (8-9:30a): NH Forum on the Future, NHHTC, CR Sparks, Bedford, NH

March 1 (6:30-8:30p): Women's Business Center and MicroCredit-NH Networking Event, Bank of America, Portsmouth, NH

March 6 (10a-noon): Growth Capital Resources in New Hampshire, City of Nashua, Office of Economic Development, Daniel Webster College, Nashua, NH

March 8: (12pm -1pm) Break the Rules and Close More Sales, Amoskeag Business Incubator, Manchester, NH

March 16: Peak Pitch (pitch your plan to invstors on the chairlift), Mt. Sunapee, NH ($)

March 22: Breaking Trends in Web Develoment, UVCIA, Hanover, NH ($)

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