Monday, October 8th, 2012
Maybe you have seen all the commercials for the new Every Door Direct Mail service of the USPS. This is a great opportunity for businesses to market themselves through direct mail at a discounted postage price. You simply set up an account with USPS and you can ship your postcard to whichever postal routes you want. It is an effective way to promote your local business in your hyper local area.
While it sounds simple enough, you still have to have the card printed and delivered to the post office in a specific manner so they can distribute them to the carriers for the specified routes. The packaging requirements are very specific and any deviation can get your mailing refused. Also, you have to go to the post office and fill out the paperwork to apply for indicia to put on the mail piece, which will take up time and effort as well. Your time is valuable and getting your message out effectively and efficiently is very important.
That is where we come in. We can help walk you through the registration steps, as well as the design and layout of the piece you want to send, and ultimately have them printed, packaged and delivered to the appropriate post office in the correct manner to ensure they are delivered to your targets. If you have questions or want more information, just contact us for help!
Thursday, March 1st, 2012
Ordering your company’s printed products can sometimes be difficult. It often takes a lot of back and forth with proofs: verifying addresses, phone numbers, and any other variable information that might be going on the printed piece. We have something that can help ease this pain for you!
Besides our friendly customer service, we offer online ordering. Some of our customers use it to order all of their products! Essentially, we can set up a catalog of your products for you to simply log in and order from. The login for it is just at the top of each of our website pages, so as soon as you’re set up, you can begin ordering!
Also in this area, we can set up templates for things like business cards to allow you to type in variable information and see a proof instantly. This allows you to avoid having to send the information to someone and wait for a proof. You can accomplish it all at once! Not only can this ease your ordering pain, it can also help your company maintain a consistent logo and look. We have many customers with multiple locations which log in and order their branded products. This allows them to provide their branches with a consistent product and helps ensure that the products come out alike, no matter which location is ordering!
Our online ordering system can also help you to consolidate vendors and get more control over how much you’re spending on these types of products. By consolidating sources we can potentially help you lower your costs with bulk purchases rather than each location placing separate orders at higher per-piece prices.
But you don’t have to have multiple locations to take advantage of this service. We can set this up for any customer and typically at no charge! Take a look at these videos for more information, or contact us today!
-Tim McNabb, Sales Manager
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
January is always an exciting month for CMC when it comes to promotional products. Every year our reps go over to OCCC for the first ASI Show of the year. ASI stands for Advertising Specialty Institute – an organization made up of thousands of vendors and distributors of every kind of promotional item imaginable! The convention is a huge idea-generating event!
If your company or team has an upcoming occasion you need to publicize, promotional items can add interest and longevity to your efforts in ways that printed items don’t. As I look at my desk, my pen cup has a vendor logo on it. My business card holder. My post-it-note holder! Even my lip balm! These items have been on my desk for ages – keeping their logos right in my field of vision – reminding me where to get these products and others like them, should the need arise. And they can do just the same for YOUR logo or message, with YOUR customers!
Not sure how to go about selecting what promotional product will best fit your event? Our reps can help! Having just been to the show, we’ve seen all of this year’s newest products, and we’ve been reminded of the tried-and-true items that we all love to receive and make use of every day. Let us help you find just what you’re looking for! Or, if you’ve already got an idea what you want, feel free to search our database, by theme or by product category, to narrow down your options!
Whatever your upcoming promotional adventures may be, CMC can help you find just what you need, when you need it! Call us today!
Thursday, January 5th, 2012
Welcome to our new website! CMC is excited to present a more interactive, platform-friendly, and cell-phone compatible website to help us connect with our customers!
The new site explains our most popular products and services, and also links to our customer-specific catalogs through the login at the top of the page. If you have set up online ordering with us for your custom printed items, www.cmcdata.com will be your new portal to that catalog. Order all the time, but don’t have a catalog yet? Contact us at 866-249-9348 to set up a meeting with one of our sales representatives about how to streamline your office’s ordering process!
And please feel free to let us know what you think of the site! Comments and suggestions are welcome!
~Brandy Cowan, Marketing & IT Manager