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Tellinga sends 100% hand-drawn greeting cards and storybooks as unique gifts by snail mail.

Tellinga creates mail art that tells your love story. Artists mail hand-drawn cards for you. Every card shipped helps raise funds to fight breast cancer, Alzheimer's, and PTSD!

Tellinga (like telling a story) creates handcrafted mail art that tells your story. Mail art is an artistic movement centered on sending artwork through the postal service. Every illustration shipped helps raise funds to fight breast cancer, Alzheimer's, and PTSD. As seen on CBS, FOX, and NPR. Starting from $19.99. How it works: 1. Select an artist 2. Add a story description and upload a photo 3. Your artist will draw your story on 5" x 7" cards and mail the recipient one card EVERY WEEK until the package ends Start your love story today!

You have heard of Bitcoin, right? That is digital currency, or cryptocurrency, and it has been around for years. Now the crypto world is branching out into art, and they call the creations a non-fungible token, or NFT.

College students rediscover the joy of handwritten letters.

Tellinga turns excitement of art, personal letters into a moneymaker.

Illustrated Storybooks & Greeting Cards Sent by Snail Mail.

Epistolary Greeting Cards That Tell Your Story!

Perez Hilton talking Tellinga!

Tyler Lockett talking Tellinga!

After graduating from Texas Tech University Alex Kurkowski went to work in the Alcohol industry. Then after three years of as he calls it “drinking for a living,” Alex transitioned to the pharmaceutical industry, and then got an MBA. So what’s a newly-minted MBA to do? He launched Tellinga, a personalized greeting card company (www.Tellinga.com). We love start-up stories, so Richard “Capt’n” Henderson and Sherilyn Colleen interview Alex Kurkowski, who has an inspiring story that weaves success with helping aspiring artists. His entrepreneurial story also shows that you can prosper in a start-up not welded to the Internet! Subjects include: * How did Alex Kurkowski go from “Texas Tech and alcohol” into the start-up world? * How Alex came up with the unique business model to start Tellinga * The Tellinga greeting card process * How Alex raised capital and financed Tellinga including using Airbnb * how long did it take to get Tellinga on a stable footing? * Linking Tellinga into online marketing and social media * How Tellinga gives back by helping aspiring artists * Alex Kurkowski’s plans for the future of Tellinga Subscribe to Home Business TV (https://tinyurl.com/ya4vs6qe). Episode Sponsor: Drone Command * www.DroneCommandLive.com

In another Rising Tide Startups episode, we chat with Tellinga founder, Alex Kurkowski.  The idea for Tellinga surfaced when Alex noticed that, while working full time in his day job, all his free time started to slip away, along with relationships with friends and family.  To keep in touch, he started snail mailing them epistolary (literary/artisanal work in the form of letters) style illustrations.  He would draw pictures in story form and snail-mail them out to loved ones piece by piece over time. It was always a way to stay connected and create fun, personalized stories so that they could look forward to checking their mailboxes every day.  Thus, Tellinga was born.  Learn more at Tellinga.com

A Tellinga artist creating another hand-drawn story!

Hand-crafted personalized books and greeting cards.

Tellinga is a Houston, TX-based start-up that turns personal stories into unique gifts with customized illustrations through snail mail. Story recipients receive hand-drawn stories about themselves based on unique preferences. It can be fun, dramatic, thoughtful... anything!

Illustrated Storybooks & Greeting Cards Sent by Snail Mail.

The Tellinga Greeting Card consists of one hand-drawn greeting card illustration sent by snail mail. Create your own unique story or reminisce a good memory from your past. Make your story as unique and as creative as you desire.

The Two Week Storybook consists of six hand-drawn illustrations sent by snail mail every other day over two weeks. Create your own unique story or reminisce a good memory from your past.

The One Week Storybook consists of three hand-drawn illustrations sent by snail mail every other day over one week. Create your own unique story or reminisce a good memory from your past.

The One Month Storybook consists of 12 hand-drawn illustrations sent by snail mail every other day over one month. Create your own unique story or reminisce a good memory from your past.

Want to wow your customers, your newest hire, or even your family member? Alex Kurkowski's company Tellinga lets you share a mini-story via custom comic-book style greeting cards you can send anywhere around the world. Think of it like a handwritten note on steroids. He joins me for a lightning chat in this week's #HYPEsession to share the goods. Alex shares: How you can use Tellinga to make a great impression on your desired stakeholder.Why standing out is of the utmost importance in today's overflooded communication ecoysystem.Tellinga's G2M strategy.How you can send your first Tellinga today. Enjoy, and remember, #HYPEsessions are available here, and simulcast in video format on Linkedin at linkedin.com/in/rajivnathan and IGTV @startuphypeman!

If Personalized books and greeting cards had a baby.

Sending 100% hand-drawn storybook greeting cards as unique gifts by snail mail!