Redbook offers Lift Me Up Cards Breast Wishes
Lift Me Up Cards was featured in the June 2007 edition of Redbook. The magazine put us on their radar. Here’s what they had to say... It’s nice to commemorate life’s big changes: bigger home, bigger job...but bigger boobs? Lift Me Up Cards, $2.95 each, offer greetings for all things elective: liposuction, face-lifts, nose jobs.
For whenever you care enough to send the very breast - um, we mean best.

Kristi Nelson from the NBC Dallas affiliate did a great story on our cards. So great, it actually aired on over 15 other NBC affiliates across the country (including WPTV in West Palm, KING5 in Seattle, WSLS in Roanoke, VA, and WTVJ in Miami) and on CNBC too. Kristi made my job so easy, and she was absolutely wonderful. To check out the link to her story, please visit http://video.nbc5i.com/player/?id=235653

The collection of get-well-soon (after plastic surgery) stationery is designed by Florida-born Camie Dunbar. Having searched in vain for encouraging cards to send newly sculpted friends, she decided to fill the void.

The cards cover all the basics: face-lift, lipo, line filling, rhinoplasty, and, of course, boob jobs, as well as general greetings for those who made like the Hokey Pokey and put their whole selves in. With cheeky expressions like “Congratulations on the twins!” and “I thought you needed a lift!,” alongside illustrations of incredibly well-endowed stick figures, they’re sure to bring a smile.
And, of course, augment the healing process.

Sun Sentinel Features us in local business section
September 4, 2006 - The South Florida Sun Sentinel featured us in the local business section.
Here's a get-well wish for your illness, accident, nose job?

A South Florida marketing veteran has created the "Lift Me Up" line of plastic surgery greeting cards. Designed for patients who've had breast augmentation, liposuction, facelifts, Botox and vein care.

The idea came in 2005 when four of creator Camie Dunbar's family and friends had work done. Dunbar couldn't find suitable cards, so she jotted messages and sketched stick figures. One card for her breast-enhanced friends said, "Congratulations on the Twins!" A liposuction card read, "I thought we could just sit around and chew the fat …"

Enlisting the help of South Florida graphic designer Matt Santamarina, the cards tread where major card companies fear is taboo, Dunbar said.

They were well received at New York's National Stationery Show in May, Dunbar says, and are available online (www.liftmeupcards.com) and select retailers for $2.95 a piece. Matching note pads cost $4.95.

Next up: Cards for tummy tucks, hair restoration and gastric bypass. Dunbar realizes there are no guaranteed riches: The greeting-card business has tight margins and cutthroat competition. But with more than 11 million Americans having cosmetic surgery each year, "I'm bound to strike a chord with someone."

-- Jeff Zbar

I heard from many Colorado Springs Gazette readers that they could not stop laughing when they read about our cards, well this is what they had to say...
Lift Me Up Cards celebrate new body bits
BY MELISSA CASSUTT

What’s obvious: Your friend’s new breasts.
What’s not obvious: What you’re supposed to say.
So make it easy - hand her a Lift Me Up Card, a greeting card for anyone who has gone under the knife. The message for a boob job? "Congratulations on the twins!" Inside message: "They make a good addition to the family." Lipo? "I thought we could sit around and chew the fat!" Inside message: "But since you just had liposuction, that’s probably not a good idea." Vanished varicose veins? "You’re so Vein!" Inside message: "You probably think this card is about you."

SHE Unlimited Interviews "Lift Me Up Cards" by Camie Dunbar Live by Gary Connolly

http://www.sheunlimited.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4580&highlight=camie+dunbar

The Wag - westchesterwag.com featured this article about LiftMeUpCards
November 16, 2006 - The Wag - westchesterwag.com featured this article about LiftMeUpCards
Celebrate Her New Shape!

Have you ever gone in search of a card to congratulate someone for their beautiful face-lift or your best friend for her breast augmentation? You think it would be easy, but it is not. Therefore, the Lift Me Up Plastic Surgery line of cards was created to offer a humorous way to congratulate friends or family members for cosmetically enhancing themselves. The line is a collaboration of Camie Dunbar `s crazy wit and sense of humor, and the artistic creativity of Matthew Santamarina . After doing a good amount of research, I realized the concept was extremely unique, yet the reason for giving such cards is common practice, for cosmetic surgery is performed on over 11.5 million people per year. Therefore, the demand would be great, explains Dunbar, founder and creator. One of the most popular cards states, Congratulations on the twins! on the cover and the inside reads, They make a good addition to the family. Another says, ÒI thought we could sit around and chew the fat on the cover, with the inside message reading, but since you just had liposuction, that’s probably not a good idea. The line was introduced at the National Stationery Show this past May in New York City.
For more information, contact Camie Dunbar at (786) 236-0866 or by e-mail at camie@liftmeupcards.com. Visit www.liftmeupcards.com.

Lift our Nation’s spirit and help someone you know. Write HOPE on the back of every envelope you mail. Let’s create 300 million messages of possibility and lift our Nation.
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Spotlight On: Camie Dunbar

Posted by Cam Pietralunga on April 14, 2009 at 11:30am View Cam Pietralunga's blog
Learn how this inventive woman entrepreneur launched her successful card business on a shoestring.

Name: Camie Dunbar

Business name: Lift Me Up Cards & Gifts

Company website: www.liftmeupcards.com

Company email: camie@liftmeupcards.com

Description of your business mission: Our collection of humorous get-well-soon after plastic surgery cards and gifts will surely bring a smile and help to ¿augmentî the healing process. We cover all the basics: face-lifts, liposuction, wrinkles, rhinoplasty, and, of course, boob jobs, as well as general greetings for the whole kit and caboodle. Warning: May cause so much laughter that your stitches may burst.

How long have you been in business? We launched the cards in May 2006 at the National Stationery Show in New York City.

How did you start/fund your company initially? It was more out of sheer need for a card to say congratulations to a few of my friends for having their breasts enhanced and to a certain family member for having lipoÞthese were things we wanted to celebrate and not hide, and I could not find a category specific card in any of your every day card stores. Therefore, I hand drew my own cards, and everyone thought they were hilarious. With nearly 12,000,000 people having some form of plastic surgery each year, I felt this was a niche that was missing. Therefore, I used some of my savings, begged a friend to illustrate them for me, had some cards printed up, and spent a lot of money to be able to launch them at the National Stationery Show.

Do you have any employees or do you use freelance help? If so, can you tell uswhere you found your help? At what point did you know you needed help? I freelance. My illustrator is a friend, and those who are helping me to sell either purchased a card, received a card or just believe in what i have to offer.

What°s the one online marketing activity you feel has worked the best for your business? Generating pr. Find topical subjects that can incorporate what you have to offer and let reporters know about it. The more pr I receive, the better my online activity, especially after linking it to my site.

Are you active on any social networking websites such as Twitter, Facebook or Linkedin? All of the above and MySpace and Fabulously40 (although I feel like Facebook and Linkedin have become more personal networking for me). However, I started participating in all in hopes of obtaining more sales/recognition.

If so, how do you manage your activity on these sites? For instance, do you interact randomly, when you feel like it or do you have a strategic plan? With two kiddos around, I have to act randomly - kind of stealth. Although, I try to be more strategic withTwitter. I remain very topical in hopes of getting those following me to think about my product in a subliminal way. I pretty much have given up on MySpace because I feel it is a bit raunchy, and I don°t have time to contribute to all

How do you manage to balance family life, personal time and business? If you would have talked to my husband when I was in Corporate America, he would have told you I lived to work, and he worked to live so you might find it hard to believe that now-a-days my kids come first, then me, then the business. It is extremely hard being good at everything, so you need to decide the one thing you want to be best at and then work everything else around it.

Do you have any advice for other women wanting to start their own businesses? If you believe in something, don°t take no for an answer. If I took no for an answer, I would have thrown in the towel 2 years ago. Also, don°t believe sales are going to come flying in the door just because you think you have something different. I was a bit naive here and spent a lot of money to find that out the hard way. If the normal means of selling what you have to offer does not work out, be abnormal and find another way to sell your product. For instance, I spent a lot less money on pr, but got many more results than I did by paying a lot of money to be at an industry sanctioned event.

Celebrity Parents Magazine And now for another kind of "work"...it's no secret that everyone today is getting a little work done (if you know what we mean). Camie Dunbar, creator of more... http://www.celebrityparentsmag.com