Our new Contemporary Health Summer/Fall 2011 Catalog is packed full of new products to help you show appreciation for patients’, clients’ and colleagues’ loyalty throughout the year.

Make sure to compliment your continuing care program by saying thank you with Thanksgiving and Holiday Cards.  In addition, set your practice or business up for success in the new year with personalized 2012 Calendar products.

Check out some of our brand NEW seasonal products:

* Promotional Calendars with Magnet Strips

* Mini Wall Calendars

* Desktop Calendar

* Premium Holiday Cards with FREE foil seals!

* Postcard Calendars with featuring front-side personalization – at the same price as standard postcards!

Shop from our entire Seasonal Collection store!

Haven’t received a catalog?  Request one online or view our digital version.

Questions?  Call us at 1-800-561-6677 and one of our product consultants will be happy to answer any questions you may have.

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Whether you’re a Chiropractor, Massage Therapist, Podiatrist or alternative contemporary health professional – communicating about the importance of overall good health should be a constant topic with all of your patients and clients.

The year-round activity of sending appointment reminders and prospective mailings is a task that is always top-of-mind for most practices and businesses  – and rightly so.  However, an occasionally underrated time of year for patient and client communication (and in my opinion, the best time to celebrate good health!) are birthdays.

Here are the top reasons why sending birthday cards are quick, easy and effective.

• Sending them takes little time and effort - a couple mailings a month to patients or clients whose birthday is approaching will not disrupt the daily work flow.
• Patient or client loyalty will begin to soar! A birthday is a special occasion that is quite personal – your sincerity and appreciation will be clear and a stronger relationship with your patient or client is indisputable.
• Watch your referrals grow. Now that you’ve built a loyal relationship – friends and family of your patients or clients will soon become privy to the name of the Chiropractor/Massage Therapist/Podiatrist who always seems to remember their special day!

The new 2011 catalog has arrived and it’s packed with over 200 new products.  This year we want to make it easy and affordable.  We’ve introduced new products that are effective tools for any practice.

Referral Cards

Referrals are the backbone of every practice.  We have introduced a line of cards that help encourage your patients to refer their friends and family.  Simply mail these cards to your loyal patient-base or hand them out as they leave your office.  Word-of-mouth advertising has never been easier!

Reusable and Biodegradable Tote Bags

Set an example of environmental responsibility.  Our reusable tote bags are made out of a recyclable non-woven material that makes a perfect functional giveaway.  Your practice information will be carried across town as your patients use it over and over.  Our biodegradable totes are a sustainable alternative to standard plastic totes and are sure to get your patients talking. Both are available at great low prices that can’t be beat (if you find one that can, we’ll match it!).

Save 15% on your first purchase of reusable or biodegradable bags by quoting promo code TOTE02.  Offer expires May 31, 2011.

Laser Cards

We are pleased to announce that all of our vision postcards are available as 4-UP laser cards!

Happy shopping!

Personalized calendars are no longer just for Real Estate Agents and Financial Institutions.  Gone are the expensive, high quantities required to place an order or “hidden” setup fees that magically show up on your invoice.

Sharper™ has created a refreshingly diverse 2011 calendar selection with no hidden fees, low quantities and competitively low prices.  Not only that, but the creative team at Sharper™ has taken months, carefully designing these calendars to cater to every market and business needs.  The combined quality of product and design are what makes Sharper™ calendars stand apart.  With minimum quantities as low as 50 and a 100% satisfaction guarantee there’s no reason to hesitate.  We’re convinced you’ll fall in love with our products, just as we have!

Our team of consultants can help you choose the design best suited for your practice.  If you’re still unsure, give us a call and we’ll be happy to answer any of your questions at 1-800-561-6677 or email us at info@e-sharper.com.

Don’t miss out this year.  A small investment can have big results.

Check out some customer favorites…

Trick-or-treat! That frightful time of year of almost here.

Little ghosts and goblins will soon be heading to the streets ringing doorbells and holding out bags for one purpose – collecting candy!

For your dental practice, these are scary words.  However, it also presents a great opportunity to educate your little patients on the ways to best protect healthy teeth and gums. It’s not too late to take advantage of the opportunity to promote your practice and build loyalty with your patients.

Send a Halloween-themed postcard or folding card with a reminder for a check-up, guidelines for a safe Halloween, or just some helpful tips for keeping teeth clean and healthy.

Hand out Halloween toothbrushes and brushing timers that are personalized with your practice information!  The kids will love the playful look and parents will appreciate your concern for their child’s oral health.

Our mini brushing tips cards are a great economical giveaway that parents can use to educate and encourage proper oral care for the entire family.

Running a successful practice or business is challenging.  Sharper™ products stand out because we understand that you need more than just a postcard with an appointment reminder.  We create practice-building tools to help your business grow.

Our goal is to help you achieve your needs such as:

• Establishing a brand
• Patient/client acquisition
• Generate referrals
• Increase patient/client loyalty

We have invested the time and talent to ensure that our designs for all of our products are created with your business goals in mind.  Each product is carefully designed, either by our talented graphic designers, or by our gifted cartoon artists.

A great example of how Sharper™ stands out from the rest would have to be our Pickles™ products. Before every new catalog we work with Brian Crane, the artist of this internationally acclaimed comic strip, to come up with strategic, clever and exclusive designs that resonate with patients and clients.  These designs are unique, and created solely for Sharper™.  So next time you’re looking for a design to stand you apart from the rest, try exploring our cartoons and artist collections. You won’t find them anywhere else, and neither will your patients!

Have your entire office as well as your patients smile for a cause this October.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and your office can help support Breast Cancer research and spread the word with our Pink Ribbon toothbrushes.

These toothbrushes can be personalized with your practice information while 5% of the profits from this product are donated to breast cancer research.

1 in 8 women will develop invasive breast cancer in her lifetime.

Using Pink Ribbon products will show patients you care about their health, unites your team and strengthens your focus on being an active part of your community.

This year it’s all about variety.

We’ve introduced a new selection of premium foil & embossed holiday cards that will build loyalty and motivate referrals.  Best of all, they come with FREE foil-lined envelopes for the extra touch of elegance!

Also featured in this catalog are Photo Holiday and Thanksgiving cards.  Send us a photo of you and your team and we will place it on the front of the card with your choice of a Holiday or Thanksgiving border.

And don’t miss out on our 2011 Calendars!  We have a variety of calendars for any budget including wall calendars, promotional and tri-fold calendars, magnet calendars and more.  Make sure to order early because if you place your order in September, you will receive 20% more calendars for FREE.  Click here for details.

Looking for a promotional giveaway this season?  BIC Pens are now available at Sharper™ and can be personalized with your practice or business information.  Mix and match trim, barrel and personalization colors to suit the brand of your business and keep your patients and clients talking about you into the new year.

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Share any feedback, questions, or suggestions you have and we’ll be sure to respond!

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Sure we’re still in the midst of summer, but with Fall & Winter approaching it’s a great idea to plan ahead by ordering your holiday products nice and early.

As a great incentive, we have a special offer on Holiday products for the month of August where you can get up to 30% more cards FREE on any of our Holiday, Thanksgiving, or Halloween cards. Click here for more details.

This year the holiday spirit must have kicked in early at Sharper™ because our selection of new business holiday cards is larger than ever. You can now find pet care premium holiday cards featuring exquisite varieties of foil and embossed treatments to show true appreciation for your pet owners. These come with foil-lined envelopes to add that extra touch of elegance.

We also have our standard veterinary holiday cards in every style imaginable. Whether you’re looking for modern, sophisticated, fun or cute we have the holiday card perfect for your practice or business.

What about thanking those pet owners who walk in to your office? Check out our new Halloween and Holiday veterinary toothbrushes that are a fun and functional giveaway for the upcoming Fall and Winter seasons.

At Sharper we’re always focused on developing new products. We’re constantly looking for the next great designs for dental recall cards, or a fresh spin for some new business greeting cards.

For our French product line, we have traditionally focused on translating our most popular English designs into French. Well we have come to realize that this is just not enough! Instead of consistently developing groups of new French products, why not put our customers in the driver’s seat to decide what product to translate? And so we’ve developed a new service to offer just that!

Our new French Translation Service allows our customers to choose virtually any postcard, folding card, appointment card or business card and request it in French!

This service not only applies to card products, you can request this service for all of our personalized magnets, reusable tote bags and wall art as well.

It’s as simple as calling 1-800-561-6677, asking to speak to a French consultant and requesting your products. A few short days later, you will receive an email with the images of your new French products!

Check out some of our most recent translation requests below:

Can you define the style of your practice?

Take a look around….

• How would you describe the majority of your patients?
• What type of art do you have on your walls?
• How would you define the personality of your office?
• What services do you offer that make you unique?

Now, take a look at your chiropractic business cards and see if the style you are currently using matches any of your answers above.

Your chiropractic business cards are a mainstay marketing tool. They are the backbone for referrals and are the primary first impression for most prospective patients. Therefore, the design of a business card can say a lot!

Choosing a style can be easy and fun. Here are some styles we offer that can help differentiate and define your practice:

Modern

Family-Oriented

Practical

Growing up, I was always surrounded by pets. Along with my family, my aunts, uncles, and Grandparents all had either a dog, cat, or other type of domestic companion.We also all had the same veterinarian. A visit to our vet was always a positive experience and she knew our family (and our pets!) like the back of her hand.

About a year ago I decided it was time to get a dog of my own. Soon after, I had all of the supplies and my new fuzzy companion there was one thing I was missing, a veterinarian! Being away from my home town, I turned to referrals from all of the pet owners I knew.

The Truth: Pet owners trust the opinion of fellow pet owners FIRST. All other research and opinion is secondary.

Referrals are the backbone of any veterinary practice. Building strong relationships with your current pet owners will create a successful, self-sustaining business built upon an atmosphere that is honest, hard-working and compassionate.

• Offer free gifts and veterinary promotional items, such as personalized pet food lids to show appreciation
• Send congratulations cards and business greeting cards to share in celebrations
• Show concern for pet dental health with personalized veterinary toothbrushes
• Appointment reminder postcards and other veterinary marketing allow you to keep growing and strengthening relationships with your pet owners

 The new Spring/Summer Vision & Hearing catalog has arrived and we’re celebrating Sharper’s 25th Anniversary!

As a special thank you during the month of May, you can receive a $25 gift card. Click here to find out how you can participate.

In celebration, all customers placing orders during the month of May will be entered into our birthday celebration draw to win their purchase!

This catalog is packed full of all of your favorite vision postcards, hearing postcards, and eye care appointment cards. Make sure to check out our personalized magnets, reusable tote bags and other great patient giveaways to promote your practice this spring & summer.

Flip to the inside cover and find more ways to save with our Sharper Deals! 

All of our customers have a wide range of favorites when it comes to our appointment reminder postcards.

For the dental market, one of the top selling dental recall postcards is a common favorite that was created exclusively for Sharper! The design below was created by Brian Crane, the acclaimed artist of the Pickles comic strip.

For the Pet Care market, a popular design of our veterinary reminder cards comes from talented photographer, Kim Levin who supplies all of the striking photography seem in the Bark & Smile line.

Sometimes, the power of simple, striking imagery is the perfect design when sending eye care postcards. Such is the case, with this top-selling design featured below.

For the contemporary health market, modern chiropractic birthday cards are always a favorite. Take a look at a favorite design below, appropriate for many healthcare fields.

Ah, Sunday mornings.

Wake up late, let the dog out, pour a cup of coffee, and of course grab the Sunday comics. (Okay, it may not be that cookie-cutter for most – but you get the idea)

At Sharper, we have been very fortunate to be able to partner with the artists of popular comic strips such as Pickles, Baby Blues and The Other Coast, to name a few.

The instant recognizability of the characters, and the humor found in the all to familiar situations of every-day life makes the popularity of these designs undeniable.

The relaxed humor of these licenses adds a comfort level between an office and their patient or client. Another great benefit of licensed products are their wide range of products and occasions. Whether you’re looking for business holiday cards, appointment reminder postcards, personalized magnets, or reusable tote bags, there is sure to be a licensed design available.

The talented team of Sharper’s graphic designers have also created licenses for our different markets. Collections such as Pawstastic, Smileville, and Wild Smiles are some of our succestful licenses created here at Sharper!

If you’re not sure of a cartoon or license that would suit your practice or business, try some National Geographic products that can be used for any market and almost any occasion. The recognizability and professionalism of these powerful images will have you stand out from the rest.

Make a lasting impression with Personalized BIC Pens. With a high rate of retention, personalized pens are an effective way to expose your brand and remind patients or clients who to call first.

Sharper now offers a variety of styles that can be customized to suit the look of your practice or business. Choose your trim color, barrel color, personalization color and pen ink color!

BIC Clic Stic

BIC Wide Body Ice Grip

The best way to kick up your pet owner loyalty and stimulate referrals is to leave a lasting impression and share in the concern for the well-being of their pets.

With the new season upon us, why not try sharing some of these Springtime tips for pets and pet owners.

• Make sure your pets are protected with flea, tick and heartworm treatments and are up-to-date on vaccinations.

• Keep identification on your pet at all times and make certain that the information is current and legible.

• Springtime means spring showers and sprinklers which can leave puddles of standing water. Try not to let your dog drink out of puddles, as standing water can be filled with bacteria leading to gastrointestinal upset or ailments.

• Just like us, our pets have allergies too. If you notice obvious signs of allergies like swollen eyes, frequent scratching, fur/skin conditions or sneezing, you may want to take your pet to the vet to explore those allergy symptoms.

• Grooming is not just about vanity. Keeping your pet clean and groomed prevents skin irritations, fleas and ticks and keeps his temperature regulated. Make sure his nails are trimmed but not too short.

• The outdoors is not the only thing pets get a fever for in the spring. Springtime is mating season! Make sure your pet is spayed or neutered so that they don’t contribute to the overpopulation problem.

When sharing these tips, send pet owners home with veterinary promotional items. This combination lets pet owners know you truly care for the well-being of their pet and the veterinary promotional items give them a convenient tool to have contact information handy to pass on to family and friends.

Personalized leashes, personalized toothbrushes, and personalized pet food lids & scoops are all great pet owner giveaways. Speak to one of our product consultants to request a free sample! 1-800-561-6677

Check out our Personalization Made Easy page to check out all the different ways we can help you strengthen your image and increase the effectiveness of your communications.

No, I’m not here to read you Shakespeare…

I want to talk about the power of a name…the name of your practice!

It’s the foundation of your reputation, the backbone for referrals, and your image in the community.

The more places you can put the name of your practice, the stronger your brand or image becomes.

You may have a lot of giveaways at your practice but the power of personalization of these giveaways has a lot more staying power and influence on your patients or clients, as well as prospects!

Try some of these personalized promotional products to hone in on the power of YOUR name:

• Personalized Magnets
• Personalized Reusable Tote Bags
• Personalized Toothbrushes
• Personalized Leashes
• Personalized Lens Cloth & Case
• Personalized Gift Certificates
• Personalized Lip Balm

Check out other great patient giveaways here!