What do you do when you have an appointment to remember?  Most people will mark it on their calendar to remind themselves.  Why not make it easier for your patients to remember their appointments?  Provide them with one of Sharper’s peel and stick appointment cards when they book their appointment!

Plain paper appointment printouts are easily discarded or forgotten.  Sharper’s bright, colorful and most importantly memorable peel and stick appointment cards are convenient for your patients and can help reduce missed appointments.  They come in a wide variety of beautiful designs, many matching our appointment reminder postcards and reusable tote bags so you can create a consistent image for your office with all your patient communication.  And right now you can get an extra 15% more cards for free with a minimum purchase, so this is a great time to try them out for yourself!

There are a lot of great veterinary promotional items out there to help market your practice.  These patient giveaways can help attract new clients, and remind your existing ones of the importance of their pet’s ongoing health care.  Dog owners will appreciate being given a useful product like Sharper’s personalized leashes.  They can increase client loyalty, and more importantly help increase focus on an important part of canine health- daily exercise.

It’s important for dogs to get enough exercise, and taking them for daily walks will help benefit their physical and mental well being.  Here are some useful dog walking tips to share:

• Walk your dog, don’t let your dog walk you.  Train them to walk beside you with the leash hanging slack.

• Active breeds need longer walks than less active ones.

• Bring everything you may need.  Don’t forget water for both of you and baggies.

• Plan your route ahead of time and take rest breaks when needed.

Help encourage your clients to optimize their pet’s health.  Personalized leashes are a great giveaway for veterinarians, groomers, trainers, and pet sitters/boarders.

I remember the first time I ever saw one of Sharper’s veterinary promotional items.  It was long before I started working here.  My wife’s parents had one of Sharper’s veterinary magnets stuck on their fridge from their local clinic.

At the time I’d never even heard of Sharper before, and never really paid that much attention to that magnet.  Only after I started working here did I realize where this magnet came from!

How memorable was that magnet? After seeing it on someone else’s fridge only a few times, years later I recognized it in our catalogs.  I can even remember the name of the clinic personalized on the magnet.  That is powerful veterinary marketing!

Everyone loves summertime.  Getting out in the fresh air and enjoying the sunshine on vacations, no wonder it is often less busy at work!

Summer is also a great time to get your ordering done!  Take the time now to pick out designs of orthodontic recall cards for the rest of the year and not have to worry about it later!  Why wait until the busy season to order dental stationery?  Order it now to make sure it’s on hand when you need it.  And if you order chiropractic holiday cards now you can avoid the rush and guarantee the selection you love is in stock!

And Sharper has great deals all year long.  Right now, check out our website for a promotion on birthday cards until the end of June.  Now it’s time to get outside and enjoy the summer! 

Not many people know that Sharper has a large selection of beautiful wall art.  Even fewer know that any one of our many eye catching postcard designs can be turned into wall art!  This includes dental postcards, chiropractic postcards, massage therapy postcards, pet care postcards, hearing postcards, vision postcards, financial postcards.

Wallart is available is 2 sizes- 19″ x 27″ and 24″ x 36″.

There are 3 styles available;

Poster – Professional Fuji Crystal archive glossy paper, ready for framing.
Laminated – Protected with 5 mil double sided thermal PET laminate.
Mounted – Matte lamination film mounted on 3/8″ MDF with a key hole routed back for easy hanging.

It’s really tough to write about dog sympathy cards.  When customers call to order them, it can bring a tear to my eye just reading the thoughtful messages on the cards.  And I’m not even talking to someone who has lost their beloved pet!

So if you’re like me, let one of our pet sympathy cards do the talking for you.  We offer a wide range of pet sympathy cards including dog sympathy cards and cat sympathy cards. They are a great way to show how much you care, and you can personalize them with your own message inside, or use one of our heartfelt sympathy messages.

Do you dread preparing all those envelopes for mailing out your orthodontic birthday cards?  Or do you wish the return address on your chiropractic holiday cards  looked better than that tacky label does?

Did you know that we can personalize any number of envelopes on your order for only $25?

It doesn’t matter if they are postcard, letter, or folding card sized, we can personalize your envelopes on the front or back!  It’s even possible to have your own logo or artwork printed on them.  We can match the font and ink color to the inside of the card so that it looks great, and you’ll save time by not having to stamp or apply a return address label to all those envelopes!

A little while ago I had a phone call from a therapist who loved our Restore and Replenish massage therapy business cards.  She said the design fit perfectly with their decor and artwork in their office.

While we were discussing this design, they mentioned they also use gift certificates.  You can imagine how happy they were to hear that we have this same design available in gift certificates!

I had to let this customer know that this popular design is available in other products as well, such as appointment cards, bookmarks, thank you & welcome folding cards, massage therapy postcards, personalized magnets, totebags and more!  When they heard about the Coordinate Your Image promotion where you can save up to 30% off when buying different products with the matching artwork, they decided to get some totebags and postcards as well!

This customer was very happy to be able to order the Restore and Replenish artwork on a variety of products.  Check out our website for a design that suits your practice or business today!

One of the common reasons our customers tell us they like to deal with Sharper™ is great customer service.  This might sound like I’m tooting our own horn (especially since I am a product consultant who deals directly with customers every day), but providing the best customer experience is something we work very hard at.

From start to finish everyone here focuses on making sure the customer is happy with their order-  from the designers creating products that customers will love, like our orthodontic birthday cards, to the consultants helping our customers order them, to composition artists making sure products are personalized correctly, to the production staff who make sure products are printed and shipped quickly.  The atmosphere in this building is that everything we do is for the customer.

We take quality very seriously.  Every person working on an order checks to make sure it is accurate.  If there are any issues with products such as moving postcards, we can rush out replacements to be there before the mailing deadline.  We work to resolve any problems and make sure they do not happen again in the future.

Our consultants are trained to be very knowledgeable about our products and are generally really nice people to talk to.  I try to treat every customer I speak with on the phone like I would in person.  Also, representatives are empowered to take action to help customers without having to transfer to different departments or checking with supervisors. So if customers have any questions on layouts for veterinary appointment cards or any of our products, we’ll be able to help them quickly and without hassle.

To ensure customers are getting the best value we have promotions every month.  When we have a promotion on products such as personalized magnet calendars customers are able to buy them for less, or even try them out at a reduced price if it is a product they do not normally use.  We will also match any competitor’s price with our price match policy!

Finally, the cornerstone of our customer service program is our 100% satisfaction guarantee.  Many companies say they have similar programs, but often they have fine print outlining what it covers and what it doesn’t.  The Sharper™ 100% satisfaction guarantee really is a no-strings attached promise that we want customers to be totally happy with their order, and will do everything we can to make that happen.

A couple weeks ago I wrote about some of Sharper’s great looking vision recall postcards.   But what I didn’t mention is that we carry a range of eye care postcards for different occasions!

Reactivation postcards for lapsed patients…

Optometry themed birthday cards to help build relationships with patients…

Moving postcards to announce a new location…

And vision themed thank you and welcome cards…

No matter what type of eye care postcard you might need, we’ve got you covered!

Last week I got a phone call from a customer who was very happy with their first order of dental appointment cards.  Previously they had ordered a small quantity to try them out, and decided to try our new folding appointment cards this time around.  With the extra space on the folding appointment card they were able to increase the amount of room they had to write down appointments on the bottom half of the card, and were able to have their contact information neatly printed on the top half of the card.

As you can see here, they were really able to maximize the room for their personalization using this type of layout and make an attractive and unique looking dental appointment card.

Many different layout options for appointment cards are available, including single or multiple appointment layouts, and ones with blanks to fill out or dates to circle.  And if you have a great idea for something we don’t have, simply send it to us and we will create it for you!

Does the thought of sending the same chiropractic birthday cards to your patients two years in a row make you cringe?  If so, then Mix n’ Match is for you!

Do you order your orthodontic recall cards 4 times a year because you pick out different designs for each season? Save yourself some time, Mix n’ Match is for you!

Want to save money on your financial greeting cards by stocking up on a variety of designs and getting a better price?  Mix n’ Match is for you!

With our Mix n’ Match policy you can pick different designs of the same product, and as long as they all have the same personalization, you get the quantity discount for the total quantity.  This allows you to save money by getting a cheaper price on products by stocking up on a variety of designs.  You’ll also save time with less frequent ordering.  And your patients and clients will love the variety of different designs!

I’ve been writing lately about Sharper’s great postcards.  However, some dental offices like to print their own dental recall cards using their appointment tracking software.  Great news- we also have a fantastic selection of dental laser cards!

Our dental laser cards are 4UP style (4 cards on a standard 8 1/2″ x 11″ perforated sheet) on 105 lb. premium stock so they are heavy enough to stand up to mailing wear and tear, but are still able to print on regular office printers.  They have a glossy finish on the artwork side so they look great, and a matte finish on the back so your printing won’t smudge.  We have our most popular postcards available in laser, and have assortments available to make ordering a variety of cards simple and easy!  And if there is anything you would like printed on the back of the laser card that your software can’t handle, we will do it for free!

Some of my favorite appointment reminder postcards here at Sharper are our vision postcards.  They are definitely some of our most eye catching designs, no pun intended!  Bright, clear, colorful images that really get your attention (and your patients attention) are the best way to describe them, but seeing is believing..

Shhhhh!  Don’t tell anyone about this, but I’m going to share some tips on saving money with Sharper!  This might very well be my last blog post here if the boss finds out… but it’s worth it to help you guys out!

Take advantage of promotions! Even if you don’t need any more peel and stick appointment cards right now, you will soon.  So why not buy them when you can get a deal!  How can you find out when there’s a bargain?  Sign up for special offers here, or give us a call.

Stock up on your cards. You will get a bigger quantity discount with the more cards you order.  Instead of ordering 250 chiropractic business cards you can get 500 cards with a much lower unit cost.

Order all your products at the same time to save on shipping! It’s worth taking a minute to check with the hygienist if they need more dental tote bags when calling in your order for dental laser cards.  Two different orders will cost twice as much in shipping so why not bundle them together and take advantage of the lower total shipping cost!

Oh wait, I hear them coming to stop me… remember you can get mix and match pricing when you pick out different designs with the same personalization.  And don’t forget about our price match guarantee!  Gotta run!

Often, it’s hard to express your sympathy when a beloved pet dies.  For the pet care provider, in many cases they have also known the animal for a long time, and the loss affects them as well.  When words are difficult to come by let our pet sympathy cards do the talking for you.

We have a range of thoughtful cat sympathy cards, dog sympathy cards and general sympathy cards to help show that you care.  Personalize them for no charge with one of our heartfelt messages, or create on of your own.

Sometimes when speaking with our customers who are trying to pick out their dental recall cards they mention there are “too many” designs to choose from and apologize for taking their time.  I always respond that it’s better to have a lot of choice than not enough!  Looking through our newest dental catalog there are over 70 pages of recall cards to choose from-  there’s a card for everyone!

We have a fantastic selection of humorous designs from many talented artists…

Our recare cards are available in dental laser cards and in individual postcards.  As always, personalization is free!

Also available are cards for different dental specialties including dental hygiene cards, orthodontic recall cards, and cosmetic & restorative reminder postcards.

No matter what kind of dental recall card you’re looking for we have a design to suit your practice’s personality.  And if you’re having a hard time choosing, just contact us for some suggestions!

We carry a lot of different products here at Sharper, but hands down the most versatile is the simple postcard.  It has been the mainstay of our business, and can be a great tool for operating and growing yours.  Here are some ways to take advantage of the amazing postcard!

• Reduce missed appointments with reminder postcards. As an example check out our Orthodontic Recall Cards.  And if they still miss their appointments send them Missed Appointment Cards!
• Send a card to your clients on special occasions. See our Financial Holiday Cards and Dental Birthday Cards for some ideas on how to impress your loyal clientele and encourage repeat business.
• Get new clients by sending postcards to your potential customers. We have cards for different specialties, like our Massage Therapy Postcards.
• Inform your patients of changes. Announce new staff and re-locations so patients always know where to find you.  Look at our Business Moving Announcement Cards.

Every day I speak with dozens of customers and process their orders via phone, fax, email and website.  I see everything from simple Dental Hygiene Cards to Financial Holiday Cards to Personalized Leashes! It’s interesting to think back on all these orders and ask…

My favorite orders are the ones where the customer has created something truly unique for themselves with the personalization on their cards.  Something like adding a discount coupon and warm greeting to Massage Therapy Postcards, making clients feel special.  Or designing a frequent purchaser layout to add to the back of Business Cards, rewarding customer loyalty.  Even a friendly message introducing yourself on Dental Welcome Postcards can make a great impression!

Let us know if you have any special ideas for your personalization and we can make it happen.

Your patients and clients will remember it!