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The APM has a bunch of products perfect for Valentine’s Day…so dim the lights, light the votives, put on some Michael Bolton and break out the chocolates and get your staff in the mood…hey! not that mood!  The mood for creating and selling (jeez guys)…and get them to crank out some samples on your kiosks and printers. 

Here is the assignment.  Write each idea down and have your staff pull out of a hat the one they have to create.  Award the best one if they need some motivation.  For a variety of samples, put in multiple copies of each.  If you have any more ideas for samples, reply to this post.  If you tried this and it worked great, let us all know!  If it flopped, well, you probably did it wrong. 

1. Photo cards for an elementary classroom…some of these that are in the kiosk even have a slit marked so you can cut and add a lollipop.
2. Folded card and envelope for that special someone…use the inside cover to write (or copy) a poem.  Hint: the envelopes don’t need to always have addresses on them, type in a person’s name, make the font big and move it to the center of the card.
3. 10×30 banner print for the high school age sweethearts…what better than a photo of your dearest to gaze at between algebra and PE? 
4. Scrapbook page with a poem…there are some templates perfect for romance–just drop in a photo or two, add a message you’re done.  And duh smartypants, promote it with all those square frames you have collecting dust!  Show this to every man that walks in the store, you will have a sale.  It’s an easy gift–doesn’t require a lot of planning or thought, but it sure looks like it did!  (Perfect for the men out there!  ha ha ha)  And, slap a little John Donne or Lord Byron on there and it’s sure to make the wife cry!  (In a good way.) 
5. Order up the teddy bear EQ Gift product with a lovey-dovey photo on the tshirt the bear wears. 
6. Make up a photo book with a love quote on each page, so your customers have something to copy into that card or scrapbook page! I’ll make it easy for ya, here are 22 quotes that are perfect for this Hallmark holiday…from The Bard to Homer (Simpson, that is) and more…

She walks in Beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which Heaven to gaudy day denies.
~Lord Byron

For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard

Grow old with me!  The best is yet to be. 
~Robert Browning

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it.  You and you alone make me feel that I am alive.  Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
~George Moore

I’ve fallen in love many times… always with you. 
~Author Unknown

What I need to live has been given to me by the earth.  Why I need to live has been given to me by you. 
~Author Unknown

I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes
~James Joyce, Ulysses

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: -
So many times do I love again.
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes

My bounty is as deep as the sea,
My love as deep; The more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.
~William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)

One half of me is yours, the other half yours—
Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,
And so all yours.
~William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice)

When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.
~William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)

Hear my soul speak:
The very instant that I saw you, did
My heart fly to your service, there resides
To make me slave to it.
~William Shakespeare (The Tempest)

I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! – and if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever.
~Rabindranath Tagore

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
~Emily Bronte

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
~A.A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)

A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness.
~John Keats

Bart, with $10,000, we’d be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like…love!
~Homer Simpson

Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will some new pleasures prove
Of golden sands, and crystal brooks,
With silken lines, and silver hooks.
~John Donne

Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden.
~T.S. Eliot

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
~Judy Garland