Ivette Muller - Part 4

30 Days of Faves: Using SendOutCards Gifts as Incentives

June 13, 2011 By Ivette Muller Leave a Comment

Welcome to Day 13 of the 30 Days of Faves Blog Party hosted by Lynsey Jones, the Party Plan Coach!

Even though we have already briefly reviewed our gift selection, I wanted to introduce an idea to you on how you can use the gifts within the SendOutCards system. Of course you can send gifts to family and friends any time you want, but, what about using the gifts as an appreciation gift or incentive program?

There are many companies that spend a lot of time and money creating and implementing incentive programs. I should know, that was part of my “job” in the corporate world. We literally spent $1000′s each year on motivating our associates, giving them incentives for meeting sales goals and rewarding great performance.

With SendOutCards, you can create an incentive program, pick out the gifts and send a personalized card to each person that earns the gift. Since there’s everything from gourmet food to gift cards, business books and office “supplies” you can pretty much find something for everyone. And since everything is in one place online, you don’t have to spend time and gas going all around town to shop for the gifts.

You can send the winners the gifts to their house, or directly to the office. Who doesn’t love to receive packages at work?

Some great industries for this are:

call centers
pharmaceutical representatives
direct sales (team leaders, directors, etc. can send prizes and gifts to their downline)
car dealerships

…and so many more!

What other industries do you think can benefit from an incentive program? Post your ideas below!

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30 Days of Faves: Production Tour Video

June 10, 2011 By Ivette Muller 4 Comments

Today is Day 10 of the 30 Days of Faves Blog Party and I am so excited to bring you this video today! It’s a video posted by another SendOutCards distributor, that shows the production process for our cards.

Without sounding like a total geek – this is truly fascinating! The amount of cards SendOutCards can process, the hand inspection and gift process is something to see.

The video is only 5 minutes but provides a wealth of information! I had actually seen this video in my back office and wanted to show it to others, but couldn’t download it. Someone smarter than me figured it out!

If you don’t read another post of mine, all I ask is that you watch this short video and post your thoughts below!

If you would like to try the SendOutCards system, I’d be happy to set you up with a Free Gift Account!

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30 Days of Faves: Find a note!

June 9, 2011 By Ivette Muller Leave a Comment

Hey everyone! It’s Day 9 of the 30 Days of Faves Blog Party and today I’d like to share with you a quick “new” thing I just discovered about the SendOutCards system.

As you might remember, you can add notes to the Contact Manager when you enter a new person. These notes serve as great reminders about conversations or people you meet at networking events. They can also be a great way to keep track of items your customers have purchased so you can follow up with them and ask them how they like it.

While this is a really awesome feature and saves time and frustration trying to remember all these things, there’s actually a way to search for notes too!

There’s a menu that allows you to type in a date range to find notes. When you click “enter” it has the contact’s name, date of the note and the actual note itself. That way you can scan the list to find whatever you’re looking for.

So how exactly would you use this?

One way I thought of immediately is say you attended a networking event last month and you can’t remember the name of the real estate agent that you met. You could type in the date of the networking event (or maybe a few days if you didn’t get to enter the information immediately) and all the notes you entered would display. Then you can just scan the notes to find “real estate agent” and click on her name to get the details.

Easy peasy!

If you would like to see this feature “in action”, let me know! I’d love to set up a Free Gift Account for you to let you try the system.

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30 Days of Faves: Card History

June 8, 2011 By Ivette Muller Leave a Comment

It’s Day 8 of the 30 Days of Faves Blog Party and today’s post will be short and sweet…and late!

Within the SendOutCards account, you have a function called “Card History”. This allows you to track all the cards you’ve sent over a specified period of time. You can see when it was sent and you can actually “click” on the file to see the card.

Plus, another really cool feature of the card history system, is that you can track every stage of a card from creation to delivery within the United States. So if you send a card within the United States, you can see when it’s created, processed for print, mailed, en route for delivery and delivered. That way, you know exactly when someone receives your card and gift!

No more wondering or making an uncomfortable call to see if they received your card and gift. You know! Plus, this is a really great feature for business owners who want to track follow up cards and specials.

Isn’t this cool! Don’t you just love when technology makes your life simpler?

If you have any questions, post them below! If you’d like to try the SendOutCards system, let me know!

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30 Days of Faves: SendOutCards Groups

June 7, 2011 By Ivette Muller 1 Comment

Woo hoo! It’s Day 7 of the 30 Days of Faves Blog Party and today I’d like to introduce you to “groups” in SendOutCards.

Here’s a brief video to explain what groups are and how you can use them to manage your SendOutCards account and use it as a follow-up tool for your business.

If you have any questions, please post them below! If you’re ready to try the SendOutCards system, I’d love to show you! Register for a Free Gift Account!

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30 Days of Faves: Gifts Point Cost Comparison

June 6, 2011 By Ivette Muller Leave a Comment

It’s Day 6 of the 30 Days of Faves Blog Party and today I’d like to highlight the cost of a gift in the SendOutCards system. I think seeing this side by side comparison of the cost of the item will help demonstrate the different packages available.

The brownies are one of our top selling items and yes they are yummy from what I hear. (Total disclosure I haven’t tried one because I don’t like brownies all that much. Yes, I know I am weird.)

Here’s a screenshot of the brownies in the gift catalog and it shows that the item costs 20 points.

Depending on the type of account you purchased (Pay as you go, Monthly Subscription or Wholesale Account), the cost of these brownies will vary. Here’s a quick chart to show you the price difference of the brownies with each of the accounts available for purchase:

As you can see from the chart, the “price” of the brownies is anywhere from $6.20 to $19.80 – a huge difference. If you would like to send gifts using the SendOutCards system, then I would highly recommend the Monthly Subscription (which is 20 points a month for $9.80 and if you need more points, you can purchase more at the $.49 per point price) the Pay as You Go option by purchasing 200 points which is priced at $.49 per point or the Wholesale Premium account. That way you can get one of the two lowest prices available for gifts.

The cost of each point doesn’t matter as much when you’re just using the system to send cards – $1.98 for a greeting card is still 50% less than a greeting card at the store and you didn’t have to leave your home. But the price per point really starts to add up when you want to use the system to send gifts.

You’ll also notice on the picture of the brownies, that there is an “expense” of $6.55 – this is the shipping and handling costs to send the gift and your card. So the points to purchase would come from your points “bucket” and the shipping/handling will come out of your expense account for postage, gift cards and shipping.

I hope this makes sense! If you have questions, please post them below so I can answer them!

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30 Days of Faves: Gifts and Gift Cards

June 5, 2011 By Ivette Muller 1 Comment

Today is Day 5 of the 30 Days of Faves Blog Party and I know I’m a little late, but I am determined to do this for the full 30 days! The next feature of SendOutCards I’d like to introduce is our Gift and Gift Card selection. There is literally a gift available for any occasion.

Here’s a quick video to show you some of the items available!

If you have any questions about the gifts or gift cards available, please post them below! Tomorrow’s video will feature some of the gifts available as well as a “cost” comparison with points.

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30 Days of Faves: Send A Card Anytime, Anywhere

June 4, 2011 By Ivette Muller 1 Comment

Today is Day 4 of the 30 Days of Faves from Lynsey Jones, The Party Plan Coach! The post today will be short and sweet because the message is simple: you can use SendOutCards to send a card to anyone in the world at anytime.

The beauty of the SendOutCards system is that you can log into your account from any computer in the world. As long as you have internet service, you can create a card and send it. This comes in handy in the following scenarios:

You’re on vacation and you’ve taken some great pictures at the beach. Instead of waiting to get home and upload them to your computer, you can upload the pictures to your SendOutCards account, create a custom postcard to send to family and friends! Now you don’t have to go postcard shopping and pay $1 or more for a generic postcard – you can create a custom one with your pictures for as little as $.62.
You attend your company’s conference or training in another city and you meet some great new friends. You can go back to your hotel room that night and send them a personalized card that tells them how much fun you had and send them your contact information so you can keep in touch.
Are you attending lots of networking events this summer? You can send your new contacts a card that says it was great to meet them and you look forward to getting together for coffee or something soon so you can learn more about them and their business.

You get the idea, right?

SendOutCards even has an app for your smart phone so you can send cards from your phone on the go!

Does it really get any better than this? :)

Yes it does! Remember, since you personalize the cards online, you can do it at 9 a.m. or 2 a.m. in the morning. You create the card and click “send”, then SendOutCards prints and mails your card within 24 hours on Monday-Saturday. (Cards created on Sundays will be mailed on Mondays because there’s no mail service on Sunday.)

What other ideas do you have for sending cards while away from home?

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30 Days of Faves: SendOutCards Contact Manager

June 3, 2011 By Ivette Muller 5 Comments

Well, it’s Day 3 of the 30 Days of Faves Blog Party hosted by Lynsey Jones, The Party Plan Coach…are we having fun yet? I know I am – I really enjoy seeing everyone else’s products as well as highlighting my favorite things about SendOutCards.

One of the most powerful features of the SendOutCards system, has to be the Contact Manager. While this is a really powerful tool for business owners or people who do a lot of networking, this works just as well for busy moms who are trying to remember family birthdays, anniversaries and special occasions.

The video below highlights the Contact Manager with some ideas on how to use it. If you have any questions, please post them below so I can answer them. Thanks!

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30 Days of Faves: More than 15,000 cards in the SendOutCards System

June 2, 2011 By Ivette Muller 2 Comments

SendOutCards has more than 15,000 cards in the system…and counting! There is truly a card for every occasion. Actually, the hardest part about the SendOutCards system is picking a card!

Here’s a quick video that highlights the categories in the system and how to preview a card.

If you’d like to try the system for yourself and send a FREE card, please fill out this form and I will get back to you ASAP!

If you have any questions about the card catalog, please post them below! I will answer then in a reply or maybe even create a new video for another day