That’s right – we’re starting the new year off with a bang!  That means it’s time for you to stock up on your appointment cards.  For the whole month of January 2012, we’re offering 250  appointment cards for FREE when you buy 500, and 500 appointment cards for FREE when you buy  1000.  However, all good things do come to an end as this amazing promotion will expire January 31, 2012 – so you’ve got to hurry!  Quote promo code P112 when placing your order.

Appointment cards are great for reducing no-shows and to remind your patients or clients of their upcoming appointment with you.  Moreover, all of our colorful appointment cards come in business card size and many designs have matching reminder postcards to coordinate your image to send out to your patients or clients prior to their upcoming appointment.  Appointment card designs are also available in a folding format.  For a complete selection of all our appointment card designs, please click here.

For easy ordering, please visit our website at sharpercards.com or call 1-800-561-6677 and one of our friendly Product Consultants will be happy to assist you.

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Increase your productivity and minimize no shows by sending patients or clients home with pre-booked appointment cards.  Sharper™ appointment cards are colorful reminders that come in business card size and many designs have matching reminder postcards to coordinate your image and to send out just prior to their upcoming appointment.

Sharper™ peel & stick appointment cards are great for reducing no shows!  Convenient and unique, sticker appointment cards are an unforgettable way to help patients or clients remember office visits.  All the information is right on the sticker – simply fill in the time and date.

Sharper™ is having one of our secret sale, again!  For today only, we are offering 250 Appointment Cards FREE! When you order 500 or more.  Quote promo code P911A.  Don’t delay…this promo expires end of day, September 30, 2011.

Ordering is easy! Visit e-sharper.com to easily personalize your product and place your order online.  You can also call 1-800-561-6677 and one of our Product Consultants will be happy to help you.

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Sending postcards is one of direct marketing’s best kept secrets! It’s a simple and economical way to promote your services, stimulate referrals and reach out to patients or clients to keep your appointment book full.

Make sure to maximize your efforts by including some of these great ideas in your message:

• Differentiate your practice or business. Incorporate your logo or a free Sharper™ logo for visual impact.  Include a mission statement or an inspirational quote.
• Engage prospects. Spotlight your message with an exciting offer or coupon.  Include a listing of your unique services, a map of your location, and don’t forget to add your website address if your have one.
• Motivate existing patients or clients. Emphasize the importance of oral health by including an interesting statistic or fact.  Encourage patients or clients to come back in for their regular preventative appointments with an effective recall program.
• Appeal to new and former patients or clients with relevant imagery and message. Sharper’s selection of postcards offers a wide variety of designs to target different groups of patients or clients.
• Generate patient loyalty and keep your practice or business name top of mind. Send birthday greetings, wishes for the holiday season or simple reminders.

Send a postcard today and watch your practice or business grow!  Click here to shop our complete selection of postcards.

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At Sharper™, we believe that practice success begins with great products.  That is why our new Fall 2011 Dental Catalog is packed with hundreds of  great ideas to successful market your practice.  In this season’s book, we are featuring our new Seasonal Collection line of Thanksgiving and Holiday Cards, 2012 Calendars and much more.  In addition, we’ve got great seasonal savings that you can take advantage of to showcase your practice while saving you money.

Building patient loyalty  and encouraging referrals are the two most important cornerstones for your dental practice success.  At Sharper™, we understand every dental practice is unique.  Which is why we offer a wide selection o f personalized patient communication and promotional products.  You choose what’s right for you and your patients or colleagues from hundreds of popular character and dental-themed designs.  The quality of your dental practice will be reflected in these exceptional and unique products.

Here is a preview at what’s new in our Fall 2011 Dental Catalog:

NEW Holiday Card Designs

NEW Thanksgiving Card Designs

NEW Character Seasonal Card Designs

NEW 2012 Magnet Calendar Designs

To request a copy of our Fall 2011 Dental catalog, click here to order or call 1-800-561-6677 and one of our Product Consultants will be happy to assist you.

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We’ve just wrapped up an amazing Summer Warehouse Sale event, thanks to all of our customers  who took part in making the event such a successful one.  For those who weren’t able to take advantage of all the amazing special offers – don’t fret – we’ve got a great “Sizzling July Sale” event happening right now.  Don’t miss this opportunity to stock up on all your personalized promotional products for the upcoming busy holiday season.

Hurry, these incredible offers expires July 31, 2011.
Special offers cannot be combined.  One offer per order.

Ordering is easy! Visit e-sharper.com or call 1-800-561-6677.

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A question that I often hear from our customers is what makes Sharper™ different from our competitors?  Well, other than an incredible team of product consultants, a 100% satisfaction guarantee to ensure your order is always perfect, and a price match promise that’s designed to meet any competitors’ pricing, we’re the only company that offers exclusive card designs from artistic cartoon licenses such as Pickles™, Baby Blues, Brian Fray, Adam@Home™, Garfield® and many more.

Sharper™ is proud to be the only company that offers a wide range of card designs featuring lovable cartoon characters from many renowned professional artists.

Have you ever wondered what these characters can teach you about marketing and growing your practice or business?  Other than being funny, cheerful and witty,  these characters can provide great marketing tips to keep your practice or business busy and bustling with customer bookings for the summer season.

Without further ado, here’s the marketing tips you’ve been waiting for, delivered by our very own lovable cartoon characters.

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Summer is just around the corner and what a better way to celebrate the warmth and beautiful weather than with bright and colorful personalized products.  To help get your practice busy for the summer season, Sharper™ has just released our new Summer 2011 Dental Catalog!

In this book, we’ve got everything from personalized recall postcards/laser cards to tote bags and peel and stick appointment cards.  Click here to view our new Dental catalog online.  If you prefer to have a catalog mailed to you, click here to order or call 1-800-561-6677 to request a copy.

Sending personalized recall products to remind patients of upcoming scheduled appointments or return visits is an easy and affordable way to promote good oral health and motivate patients to maintain a healthy smile.

Here are some of my favorite recall postcard designs that also comes in a peel and stick, business card and tote bag formats:

Portray a professional image by coordinating designs for all your patient communications. This will help build your brand and also save you money.

Purchase 3 products – 15% OFF – Promo Code MATCH3
Purchase 4 products – 25% OFF – Promo Code MATCH4
Purchase 5 products – 30% OFF – Promo Code MATCH5

Ordering is easy!  Visit e-sharper.com or call 1-800-561-6677.

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At Sharper™, we greatly value the feedback we receive from our customers when they complete our “Would You Recommend Us” survey.  Our customers tell us the things they love about our business, but most importantly they tell us the things that create customer service issues for them.  We also receive a ton of recommendations on how we can improve our business processes to better support our customers and their goals of growing their practice or business successfully.

An important trend with our customers has been the migration of ordering products online at our website www.e-sharper.com.  Since the majority of our products are personalized with contact information and branding like custom logos, we have heard a lot of feedback about how our site did not allow customers to quickly see how their products would look when printed.  They would have to request a proof, which would be sent by email or fax.  Way too labor intensive in this day and age of technology.

So we challenged our IT team to find an easy to use application for our website where customers could enter in the information they wanted to have printed on their product, change fonts, ink colors, logos, etc.  And boy, what they found for us was great!  If you have not been to the Sharper™ site recently, please visit www.e-sharper.com.  Boasting some exciting new features including a revamped look, our website will now allow you to easily search for your products and personalize it with our online personalization tool.

Furthermore, if you create a web account, your name and address information will auto-populate…saving time from manually keying it in.  All of this information is then stored in your account for easy retrieval when you reorder.  You will also see a digital proof which represents how your products will look when printed.  Don’t like the look – then quickly change it.

Needless to say, we love technology and I know our customers will too!  Happy shopping…

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Reactivation Postcards are pretty self-explanatory, but these cards can also be a great way to feature new products and service offerings!  For example, you could have a message that reads:

“Dear:_______________________,

After reviewing your file, we noticed that you may be due for a check-up appointment.  In the best interest of your health it is important that we see you as soon as possible. Your last appointment with us was over ____ year(s) ago.  Please call at your earliest convenience to book your appointment to ensure your health is at its best!

Also, we would love to see you and show you some of the new services our company now offers!

Please join us on June 6, 2011 for an Open-House including beverages and treats!  There will be a guided tour where you can see all the wonderful products and services first hand and ask us any questions you may have.

We hope to see you there!”

At Sharper™, we are able to personalize the cards in any way you like.   Please click here to see some other ideas for reactivation messages, and remember that you can change the wording to suit your needs.  If you have a layout or an idea, please feel free to call Customer Service Center at 1-800-561-6677 to speak to one of our friendly Product Consultants, so they can help make it become a reality!  Your patients will love the personal touch you have put into the cards.  Your effort  will definitely show!

Here are few idea’s for Reactivation Postcards.  Please click here to see our full selection – you can narrow your search to see the specific designs related to your practice or business.

With busy schedules, it is easy for people to forget an appointment – even the most organized ones!  This happens to most of us at one time or another, but as the health care practitioner it can be frustrating to say the least!  With any of our Missed Appointment Postcards, you are able to completely personalize the message on the back (to let your patients know how important it is that they keep their appointments) or use one of reminder messages.  Both of these services are available at no extra charge.  In addition, if one of our postcards has a design that you like, but not necessarily the wording/copy, you are able to change the wording for a one time fee of $60!  Once the card design and new copy is on file, you may use it again at no additional charge.

Please call 1-800-561-6677 and ask for a Custom Order Consultant and he/she will be happy to assist you with your order.

To view all of our beautiful Missed Appointment Postcard designs, please visit www.e-sharper.com or request one of our catalogs today.  We also provide samples of most Sharper™ products, so please don’t hesitate to let our Product Consultants know when calling our Customer Service Centre.

Here is a quick preview of some of our designs:

If you’ve ever had a chance to look through our catalogs, you’ll notice that in every book we have chosen a few special card designs to help you achieve success in your marketing strategies.

Here is a quick glance at a few of our Top Pick to help contemporary health professionals grow their practice or business:

Perfect for patient or client referrals:

Ideal for patient acquisition:

Ideal for increasing patient or client loyalty:

Great for patient or client retention:

Perfect for patient or client reminders:

Looking for more ideas to build your practice or business? Request a copy of our latest Contemporary Health catalog today.  Simply click here or give our customer service center a call at 1-800-561-6677 and one of our product consultants will be happy to assist you.

We’re putting our best smile forward with our new January Dental catalog.  Proudly serving the Dental Care professionals for over 26 years, our new catalog is packed with thousands of innovative practice building ideas.

Starting the new year off fresh, we have redesigned the look and feel of the Dental catalog to enhance your shopping experience.  We are dedicated to providing you with the best marketing products for your practice, so that’s why we’ve personally hand-picked over 500 new dental products for your shopping pleasure.

Here is a peak at some of the new products.

Artistic License Designs

Our professional artists make it easy for you to put a smile on your patient’s face.  Uniquely different, each artists combines humor and artistic talent to create memorable designs to help you grow your practice.

Patient Giveaways

Here is something your young patients will love!  New Sqwiggly Toothbrushes are sure to put a smile on anyone’s face.  Children will especially love using them to maintain their dental health.  Moreover, each toothbrush is personalized with your practice information – making it easily accessible for parents.

Appointment Card Designs

We understand that filling up your appointment book for the new year is important to sustaining a healthy practice.  So, this year we’ve introduced some new Peel & Stick and regular Appointment Cards to help your patients keep track of their booked appointments.  Also, did you know that you can add extra information to any appointment card by ordering them in our folding format?  This is great if you want to add a referral message to the back of your appointment card to stimulate new referrals to your practice.

There are many more new products in the catalog including referral cards, birthday cards and benefit reminders.   For a complete selection of new dental products, click here.

Let us help you start your practice on the right track this year.  Request a January Dental catalog today – click here to order online or simply give our call center a call at 1-800-561-6677 and one of our professional sales consultant will be happy to assist you.

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Let’s get social with Sharper™!

Follow us on Twitter or become a Facebook fan to receive great promotions, news, marketing tips and industry updates that only social media subscribers will receive.

That’s right – we’re starting the new year off with a bang!  That means it’s time for you to stock up on your appointment cards.  So, for the whole month of January 2011, we’re offering 250 additional appointment cards for FREE when purchase 500, and 500 additional appointment cards for FREE when you purchase  1000.  However, all good things do come to an end as this amazing promotion will expire January 31, 2011 – so you’ve got to hurry!  Quote promo code P111 when placing your order.

Appointment cards are great for reducing no-shows and to remind your patients/clients of their upcoming appointment with you.  Moreover, all of our colorful appointment cards come in business card size and many designs have matching reminder postcards to coordinate your image to send out to your patients/clients prior to their upcoming appointment.  Appointment card designs are also available in a folding format.  For a complete selection of all our appointment card designs, please click here.

For easy ordering, please visit our website at www.e-sharper.com or call 1-800-561-6677 and one of our professional sales consultant will be happy to assist you.  You may also fax us your order, 24 hours a day at 1-888-251-4454.

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Let’s get social with Sharper™!

Follow us on Twitter or become a Facebook fan to receive great promotions, news, marketing tips and industry updates that only social media subscribers will receive.

At this time of year it’s hard to think of anything other than the upcoming holidays and the stresses we may be dealing with.

Something to think about though, is possibly re-vamping your office with a new business card design!  If you are currently using a design that matches your office colors and logo then you could always spice things up with our colorful peel & stick appointment cards.

If you are thinking of changing your business cards or starting to order them for the first time, here are some ideas of our beautiful designs…

Please visit our website at www.e-sharper.com for a complete list of all of our designs.

If there is anything that you may want to change about the designs you see, please call our Call Center at 1-800-561-6677 and our Custom Creations representative would be happy to assist you.

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Let’s get social with Sharper™!

Follow us on Twitter or become a Facebook fan to receive great promotions, news, marketing tips and industry updates that only social media subscribers will receive.

Due to the cold weather, sports injuries and strains can be much more common at this time of year.  A great way to remind your patients of this and the benefits of making an appointment with your office is with our beautifully designed Chiropractic, Physiotherapy and Massage Postcards!

The back of the postcard is completely customizable.  You can explain all the benefits here, along with space to write an upcoming appointment date or anything else you like.  We can also print a coupon or a discount the patient can receive when they bring in this card.  A great promotional tool!

Also, please remember you can add your custom logo to the back of the postcards for a one time set-up fee of $45.00.

Another option you have is to take one of the designs shown in our catalog and change the text on the front for a $60.00 flat fee.  Please contact our call center at 1-800-561-6677 and give the Product Consultant the item number of the card you would like to change and we can let you know if the licensing will permit the change.

Over the last year, we have heard from many Sharper™ customers how tough it has been due to the economic meltdown and the slow recovery period.  Though times may be challenging, we have received some excellent money saving ideas from customers via our Your Opinion Counts survey.  These ideas are great for budgeting, especially for the Holiday season when spending is expected to increase substantially.

One great idea is keep track of customer’s birthdays via your practice management software and then send a birthday card with a message to acknowledge a patients special day, and to also remind of an upcoming appointment (or the need to book an appointment).  You’ll cover two occasions with just one card – with extra impact.  Make things even easier for front administration staff by using laser cards, which can be printed conveniently in your office.

Another great tip we’ve received from the survey is to avoid purchasing both business cards and appointment cards.  Rather purchase just the business cards and ask for an appointment reminder to be printed on the back.

And remember to hand out lots of custom business cards to your patients, asking them to pass along to family and friends.  Stimulating referrals is one of the most cost-affordable dental patient acquisition activities around.

Moreover, combining promotional products together can be a great cost-saving strategy to help market your business or practice.  For example, our Design Your Own Personalized Tote Bags are an inexpensive way to market your business or practice.  Economical, our plastic recyclable tote bags are a convenient way to package up supplies, giveaways and educational materials that promote your service.   This way, you can maximize your marketing exposure with one package instead of sending out individual products multiple times a year.

In this tough economy it is more important than ever to retain current patients and clients.  And, there is no better time than the Holidays to show customers your appreciation for their patronage.

A good business practice during the recession recovery phase is to be proactive, smart and business savvy.  Don’t let the economy dictate your business – stay in charge and you’ll surely experience the benefits of your hard work.

T’is the Fall Season!  What a beautiful time of year, and with this comes a great opportunity to use some of our beautiful seasonal postcards, appointment cards and Thank you cards.

Our postcards come in the standard 5 3/4″ x 4″ size or our new large 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″.  Just imagine, your recall cards will definitely stand out in the mail being a larger size along with a beautiful seasonal design.  We also carry many of our designs in the 4-up laser postcards.

I have so many favorite seasonal designs, it’s hard to choose one to show you, but the nice thing is that you can mix and match designs in lots of 50, so you can order many different styles! And they all can be personalized to your liking.

We have a few designs in our standard or folding appointment cards also.  Please remember that the back or the inside of our appointment cards can be customized however you would like.  We can print a calendar, your office hours, an appointment layout, or anything else you can imagine!  Here are some of my favorites:

The last item I would like to mention is our beautiful seasonal Thank you cards!  We have four beautiful designs that will surely put a smile on your client’s face and help you generate more referrals to your business or practice at the same time:

For most people, the fall and winter seasons conveys the excitement of holiday festivities such as scrumptious turkey dinners, joyful gatherings with friends and family, and in some parts of the world, this time of year brings forth the celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival.  However, for others, this time of year conveys a whole different story.

For many of us, the coming of winter means that we have to get our cars tuned-up and ready for the harsh cold weather, put away our summer shorts and t-shirts, and bring out those parkas, that only people in Nunavut should be wearing.  Nonetheless, we can all take advantage of this season by rejuvenating our bodies and uplift our moods with a visit to our massage therapist, chiropractic clinic, or holistic health practitioner.

Harry J. Johnson states it best, “the human body has been designed to resist and infinite number of changes and attacks brought about by its environment.  The secret to good life lies in successful adjustments to changing stresses on the body.”

If you are running a contemporary health business or practice, this is definitely a good time for you to reach out to current or prospect customers to build your clientele.

Visit Sharper to learn about more ways to build new client acquisition and improve customer relations with your current patients.

Here are some of my favorite new client acquisition products:

Sharper™’s Design Your Own Stationery is probably the easiest process I have ever encountered in my travels as a designer, perfect for any business who has not had the luxury of hiring someone to create a corporate branding package for them, or a new business just starting out.  Logos can be an expensive venture, especially if you have no idea what you want.  If you are a new company in your field this may save you the anguish of dealing with hours of design time, proof after proof, and still not having that professional look that you need to get you off and running.

Sharper™ offers a very simple process towards creating a professional looking Stationery package:

• Select your paper.  Sharper™ has 6 different colors and textures to choose from
• Choose a font. Again, there are 6 styles that will showcase your company name.
• Now here comes my favorite part…The logo…and Sharper™ offers a variety of logos absolutely FREE

Inside tip: We just finished creating hundreds of new logo designs that are now available for you to choose from.

• Select your personalization color - you can create a beautiful look in either 1 or 2 color options.
  
  

• Inside tip: Using black for your type, then an accent color for the logo icon will give your new stationery that extra punch

Now that you have your stationery ready to go, you can use that same setup and logo choice on all of your future recall and acquisition postcards, folding cards, tote bags, appointment cards, and personalized giveaways to emphasize your company brand. Sharper™ will have you up and running with a professional look quickly and affordably.  Coordinate all of your designs for your patient or client communications, build your brand and save.

Purchase 3 products – 15% OFF
Promo Code MATCH3
Purchase 4 products – 25% OFF
Promo Code MATCH4
Purchase 5 products – 30% OFF
Promo Code MATCH5

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!