Patricia Work Bennett grew up sending greeting cards. Even before she could write, she was drawing thank you cards for relatives. Her mother would address them and off they would go.

It is her intention to promote long-term connections through the use of greeting cards, especially custom, photo greeting cards. Afterall, a picture is worth a thousand words. Digital cameras have opened up a world in custom greeting cards that offers so many opportunities to show appreciation and love.

She has seen a $.98 greeting card win business contracts for $1000s, get people hired in a very tight job market, bring hope to cancer patients, celebrate a new life and comfort grieving grandparents.

She abhors email messages of congratulations, get well, happy birthday, and especially condolences. With the spam filters in place today many email messages get lost anyway and are very tacky. So whether you are in business, in sales, or an entrpreneur, greeting cards of appreciation and care will always trump self-promotion anytime.

But if you have a personal life, and who doesn’t, greeting cards build connections and deepens relationships in so many ways that it goes beyond the imagination. The impact on a disappointed child. The comfort for an elderly relative. The acknowledgment of a friendship placed on the back burner for a couple decades. Emails simply don’t cut it.

Patricia Bennett has been the President of Listening Incorporated for almost 20 years. She edited the first independent newsletter for remarried families and had readers throughout the US, Canada, and the UK. She is a registered nurse who worked in mental health since 1980 beside her second husband, Richard, the author of several books on Attention Deficit Disorder in Adults, Administrative Law impacting Professional Licenses, a novel on professional ethics, and his most recent book, Patterns, Fractals, and Mental Health. They both hold a patent for an assessment tool, the Brief Therapy Treatment Planner, that will revolutionize the mental health delivery system, saving millions of dollars and improving treatment for psychotherapists and clients alike.

She is a cancer survivor, since 1993. She and Richard share four adult children and five grandsons and one grandaughter. They serve as seeing-eye people for their blind and deaf Cocker Spaniel, Mulligan.

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