The winter holiday season, which starts on Black Friday and lasts until New Years Eve, is always a lucrative time for stores. It's when prices are highest due to the anticipation of sales on gift items, decorations, sweets, and everything else associated with Christmas. This is one of many reasons why holiday eCards are gaining so much popularity.

Research has shown that people actively use email to maintain core social networks. This is especially true for friends, relatives, and partners who live far away from each other. After all, email is cheap, efficient, and accessible to everyone.

Though there are some years when people are tempted to scrimp on gifts, decorations, holiday feasts, and personalized greeting cards, the latest developments in email technology have practically ensured that everyone will be able to send and receive cards on Christmas.

Aside from being affordable, eCards are no longer static and boring. Christmas eCards can be sent with accompanying music, flash animation, video, and family pictures. These cards capitalize on the affordability and efficiency of email but still remain as personal and thoughtful as traditional holiday greeting cards.

Holiday eCards also come with different levels of personalization. Many people can make them from scratch through a design program. Others can choose among the standard eCards available online. These cards don't require any tweaking and have different levels of customization involving music files, photos, personal messages and more.

The recipients of eCards can opt to keep them online, print them out, or burn them on CDs or DVDs for posterity. For free eCards and other online downloadable items, visit Gusanito.com.

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A variety of holiday greeting eCards and Christmas eCards are available at Gusanito.com. Gusanito.com is the home of Cowco, Wamba, Wippo, and Wero. They appear in eCards, Calendars, Emoticons, Display Pictures, Wallpapers, Screensavers, Comics and various online games as well.