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                                                                   Exhibit (a)11

                                                           FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

AMERICANGREETINGS.COM COMPLETES TENDER OFFER FOR EGREETINGS, CLOSES ACQUISITION

CLEVELAND (March 19, 2001) - AmericanGreetings.com today announced that it has
completed its cash tender offer for all of the outstanding shares of common
stock of Egreetings Network, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGRT) at 85 cents net per share, and
that the acquisition of Egreetings by AmericanGreetings.com has closed.

Josef Mandelbaum, chairman and chief executive officer of AmericanGreetings.com,
said the conclusion of the acquisition is a watershed event for the company.
"The addition of Egreetings will allow us to increase and diversify our audience
with popular and established brands," Mandelbaum said. "We are also very excited
to continue and hope to expand the exclusive relationship Egreetings has
established with the Microsoft Network. This acquisition adds to the momentum
we've been building since last year with both consumers and advertisers, and
should contribute to our goal of becoming profitable by the fourth quarter of
this calendar year."

In the offer, which commenced Feb. 12, 2001 and expired at 3 p.m. EST on March
19, 2001, a total of 31,747,524 shares of Egreetings common stock, or 94.89
percent of the outstanding shares, were validly tendered and not withdrawn, all
of which were accepted for payment.

Each share of Egreetings common stock not tendered was converted into the right
to receive 85 cents in cash, without interest, pursuant to a merger of
Egreetings with a wholly owned subsidiary of AmericanGreetings.com. The total
value of the transaction was approximately $28.4 million.

Mandelbaum said that both Egreetings and Beat Greets, its spin-off site, will
continue to operate as separate brands.

According to February's Nielsen//NetRatings for home and work Internet users,
AmericanGreetings.com was the 17th most visited site on the web with 13.2
million unique visitors, while Egreetings was 71st with 4.6 million unique
visitors. Accounting for the 6.4 percent overlap in the two audiences, the
combined company would have been the 12th most visited site on the web in
February with 16.8 million unique visitors.

ABOUT AMERICANGREETINGS.COM
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AmericanGreetings.com is the online greetings and personal expression subsidiary
of American Greetings Corporation (NYSE: AM), the world's largest publicly held
creator, manufacturer and distributor of greeting cards and social expression
products. AmericanGreetings.com consistently ranks as one of the top 20 Web
sites in terms of monthly unique visitors, according to Nielsen//NetRatings.
Through partnerships with AOL, AIM, ICQ and Netscape, AmericanGreetings.com (AOL
Keyword: AG) reaches 80 percent of all Web users. It offers more than 15,000
total greetings, the largest selection available on the Web. Branded content
available from AmericanGreetings.com includes online cards and entertainment
from Egreetings Network, and the eAgents newsletter, which consolidates and
delivers personalized content from the top sites on the Internet to subscribers.

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