Just in time for the holidays, this Gmail plugin allows you to turn emails into physical greeting cards. Google Chrome extension Dear Inbox is available for free and gives users the ability to send printed greeting cards right from their inbox on Gmail.
The standard compose button will have a button beside it that opens the Dear Inbox menu. This menu allows people to pick from a variety of seasonal categories and different card designs they can customize with personal details. The body of the email consists of a personal message users write and drafts are automatically saved. Designed to look like regular email composition, the Gmail plugin interface requires you to enter a mailing address in the recipient field rather than an email.
Greeting Card Inbox Extensions
The Gmail Plugin Dear Inbox Sends Emails as Physical Printed Cards
Trend Themes
1. Email to Physical Greeting Cards - The trend of converting emails into physical greeting cards presents an opportunity for innovative companies to disrupt the greeting card industry.
2. Personalized Card Designs - The trend of offering customizable card designs allows for disruptive innovations in the print and design industry.
3. Digital Integration with Traditional Communication - The trend of integrating digital platforms like Gmail with traditional forms of communication presents opportunities to disrupt both the technology and postal industries.
Industry Implications
1. Greeting Card Industry - The greeting card industry can disrupt itself by embracing the trend of converting emails into physical greeting cards and offering innovative services around it.
2. Print and Design Industry - The print and design industry has the opportunity to disrupt traditional greeting card manufacturing by providing customizable card designs that can be printed from emails.
3. Technology and Postal Industries - The technology and postal industries can explore disruptive innovations by leveraging the trend of integrating digital platforms like Gmail with traditional forms of communication such as physical greeting cards.