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Blank Postcards Give New Option for Postcards for Business

Sedona Brad — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:13:00 +0000

We are now offering a series of themed based blank postcards. These blank postcards have completely blank back sides and theme based graphic designs on the front. The first themes for these cards are Christmas Vintage and Holiday Greeting.

Some advantages of using this type of card over a full custom card for your greeting are:

No photograph is needed ( most of the custom cards we do use photos supplied by our customer)
Backside can still be customized to say just what you desire.
Some of the front side designs offer areas to place a custom greeting and/or graphic.
Can be purchased in quantities as few a 10 for $ 4.60
( That price is lower than our custom card pricing for printing a quantity of 250 4×6 sized postcards. )

Every think else works the same way as with a full custom card. The steps are:

Select which holiday greeting postcard front side design you prefer.
Describe what greeting you want on the front of the card and back of the card.
Use the form to send us your information and instructions.
We create a draft design and send you a link to review it.
We will continue to make changes until you approve of the design and are ready to place a printing order.

There are 5 card designs to choose from on each of the first two themes.

Here is the Santa for Christmas Vintage theme: (designs for traditional holiday feeling)

A larger view of each card can be seen by clicking on the card.

Jolly Santa in his Sleigh 001

and here is the first one for Holiday Greeting theme: (elegant designs allowing personalization on front and back)

Blue Christmas Bulb with greenery 001

Consider taking advantage of these blank postcard theme cards to make your customers feel appreciated this holiday season.

Two New Postcards for our Birthday Greeting Service

Sedona Brad — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:24:38 +0000

Here are a couple of new Birthday card designs for our Happy Birthday card sending service.

A cheery bright card using candles:

Happy Birthday Card 003 – candles – (click image to see large version)

and another, a Happy Birthday cake in a star filled background …

Happy Birthday Card 004 – cake – (click image to see large version)

These have been added to our order form.

More designs to let your customers know you appreciate them.

Use this link to learn more about our Happy Birthday greeting card services.

Your Questions About Postcard Advertising

Sedona Brad — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:36:33 +0000

Nancy asks…

What do you think about postcard advertising?

Do you think post card mailing are an effective way to promote products?

Sedona Brad answers:

Yes I do, much more effective I believe. Smaller, less bulky, short, sweet and right to the point.

Carol asks…

What’s the response rate for postcard advertising?

What’s the response rate for a postcard marketing campaign with 5000 being sent out. Do you have any tips or offers that might increase response rate. We are in the deli/catering business. Thank you!!

Sedona Brad answers:

Try to get your postcards out to wherever you can, and especially to places where you think your customers would be going. From what I’ve heard, you are considered very lucky if you get a 2% – 3% return percent for your ads. Get a good graphic design to do these postcards to grab peoples’ attention, make them pick up your card first.

Sandra asks…

Good idea for Seniors Advertising Postcard?

I work at a small newspaper and we often do supplement issues with specific themes, Seniors being one of them. We make up postcards to send to advertisers to get them to buy ad space. Every single time we end up resorting to using a stock photo of an older couple with type over it. Anybody have a fresh new idea of what we could put on the front of the card to entice people to advertise with us?

Sedona Brad answers:

Your customers are not seniors they are the advertisers that are looking to target seniors. Why not use a postcard that states more with text and facts on how your newspaper is doing a senior showcase and get your message in front of 10,000 seniors in the metro area etc. I don’t know your specific senior readership of your newspaper but i would position it like that. I work for a newspaper as well and that is something that is overlooked at times. Right now your customer is the prospective advertisers so they may not look at the senior picture and get interested as opposed to statistics of targeting that demographic. Hope that helps

Betty asks…

Will you pick up free postcard advertising in museums, cafes, or movie theaters?

What does it take for the ads to grab your attention? How many will you take?

Sedona Brad answers:

I have so many of those. I collect images, as I’m an artist. So I grab anything that I find interesting.

It could be a really good photograph, interesting use of colors or images. Or just a really clever idea. I literally have hundreds of those postcards.

Paul asks…

Does free postcard advertising seen on cafes and bars work for you? Will you pick them up?

Sedona Brad answers:

I really like the free postcards. They are often very unique and fun. I will pick them up. Though, I won’t pick all of them up, just the ones that really catch my eyes.

Direct Marketing Postcards for Small Business Stimulus

Sedona Brad — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:02:57 +0000

Our Economic Stimulus Discount

Here is a new service advantage for direct marketing postcards – we are offering to help small businesses with small budgets to take advantage of direct marketing postcards during our economic slowdown.

We are offering small businesses that want to explore direct marketing postcards, to try our services at a huge discount. Small businesses that decide to participate can purchase as few as 100 postcards at a time and we will supply these for $0.36 a card. That is equal to our 500 unit quantity pricing.

That is not all! We are going to include addressing with this price. That is an additional $0.19/card savings.

In other words, instead of paying our usual price of $1.02 per card for 100 4×6 postcards printed and addressed, we are giving it away for $ 0.36 per card. That is about a 65% discount.

So what do you get ?

Free design services for custom attention grabbing full photographic color front side of postcard design created from information you send by email or using our submission form.
back side of postcard can be changed with each minimum order of 100 cards.
back side design can include some color at no additional charge, but no full bleed or photographic images.

What are the constraints ?

only good for 4×6 sized postcard
front side design cannot change through campaign
minimum order of 100 cards per back side design

Thats it ! You get a gigantic discount on custom designed small quantity postcard orders which you can mail out to:

find new customers or clients by introducing them to your business
make new offers to returning customers
send out ads on sales
introduce new products and services
issue discount coupons for your products and services
mail invitations to an event your business is having or participating in
ask for feedback on what your customers would like your business to offer or how your business is performing for them
communicate some useful tips for your customers to appreciate
deliver a greeting like: “Thank you for your business”

Just about anything you might want to communicate from your business to your customers, you can use a custom postcard to do it. Like any advertising, the key to successful postcard marketing is repeated communication. One big advantage in “not changing” the front side design of your postcard is brand recognition. The repeated sending of the same front side design builds up an instant identification of your business.

After a customer takes advantage of what you communicate in one of your postcards, he will be looking for that next postcard to take advantage of, and he can recognize it easily because it has the same front side design.

These are things that big businesses know and can afford to send out large quantities of postcards repeatedly. A small business might not be able to afford large quantities right from their start, so our economic stimulus postcard program makes it affordable to just about the smallest of businesses and still be able to continue their other marketing efforts.

One idea, A dental, medical, financial, insurance office might use this method to slowly build up your customer base. Send out to 100 new prospects each month. Those that respond, place on a customer list for repeated communications. This idea could also be used for automotive maintenance services or any restaurant trying to build up their steady customer list.

If you are interested in this offer and want to get started, then let us know by using our inquiry form. If you are interested, but you have questions, please use the same inquiry form send us your questions. We look forward to hearing from you.

Thank You For Your Business

Sedona Brad — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:57:04 +0000

Here is a new Thank You For Your Business postcard design, and that is exactly what it says.

Do we ever say thank you enough to our customers ?

Thank You Card – Thank You for Your Business 005

If your business has steady customers, you might want to send this thank you postcard to all your customers each quarter (or twice a year) to make sure they feel appreciated and to invite them back.

Use this link to learn more about our Thank You card services.-

Home Mortgage Business Grand Opening

Sedona Brad — Wed, 26 May 2010 14:17:36 +0000

When a new business is planning a grand opening there are many ways they should consider to promote their event. The usual mass advertising methods of using newspaper, radio, and TV should be considered. The word of mouth method to talk it up at network marketing activities like Chamber of Commerce meetings should be considered.

Also, one should not neglect considering use of direct mail advertising with the most cost effective mailing media, the postcard. Postcards have many advantages. Review postcard advantages listed in the article that is available in this link.

Here is an example of Grand Opening invitation postcard for mortgage business grand opening.

We can design a postcard to promote you business grand opening plans. Our design work is free and we will keep working on it until you approve and are ready to purchase prints. Just use our Inquiry Form to get things started.
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Small Biz Promotion Postcards – Sports

Sedona Brad — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:11:34 +0000

What ever the sports season, folks like to receive some sports schedule information. This can be especially important when you have a local team you want to show support for. It is one way of showing support for the area you live and work in. Always a plus for any small business.

For example you might live in a collage town. Why not present the schedule for the college teams for football on one postcard, for basketball on another postcard, for baseball on another postcard, and more on your postcards to promote your business.

Here is an example of a card we printed for one realtor in which she offered the schedule for Monday Night Football on the front. Some of her prospective customers will keep this and share it because it has useful information. Therefore, her cards will get more exposure. Curiosity will keep people looking at the backside.

frontside -

backside

It is just an example of a useful promotional postcard design.

We are ready to start a design of a card like this for your promotion.

Use our inquiry form to send us a note that you are interested and we will start working with you. We do not charge for design services!

OR – just use this form to send us any photo and schedule information you want to use to help us get started.

Postcard addressing and mailing services

Sedona Brad — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:50:27 +0000

We can address and mail your postcards. In order for us to do this we need the addresses you want us to use in a spreadsheet file. Each address should be in a separate row and each line of each address should be is a separate column. Here is an example of how the spreadsheet should be organized:

Name	address line 1	address line 2	address line 3	address line 4
John Smith	444 – 80th Street	Apt. # 44	Phoenix, AZ 62666
Mr. and Mrs John Doe	33111 Vadalia Way	St. John, TN 33006

If you do not have your addresses in a spreadsheet file, then let us know what format you can provide your addresses in.

You do not need to have a spreadsheet program, we can set up an online spreadsheet for you to enter your addresses in using your web browser.

If you would like to purchase a list of addresses, we can also do that for you too. ( send us an inquiry to tell us what kind of address list you need )

Pricing on Addressing: ( if you need a specific quantity please send us an inquiry )

$ 0.19 per card for 250 or less
$ 0.17 per card for 251 to 500
$ 0.14 per card for 501 to 1000

Pricing on Addressing and Mailing: ( if you need a specific quantity please send us an inquiry )

$ 0.41 per card for 250 or less
$ 0.39 per card for 251 to 500
$ 0.37 per card for 501 to 1000

( the above addressing and mailing pricing is good for 4×6 size postcards only )

* Prices are subject to change without notice.