It’s time to have a little Thanksgiving holiday creative fun with
Sharper™ Thanksgiving cards!

Thanksgiving is the time of year when we get to see our family and friends, eat great food and celebrate all that we are thankful for.  Whether you host a dinner for 20 or cook a turkey breast for two, here are some fun Thanksgiving craft ideas to use your new or old Sharper™ Thanksgiving cards.

Idea 1: Share a favorite recipe inside your Thanksgiving cards you send out.  You can print the recipe directly inside the folding card with a fun Thanksgiving Sharper logo as an accent.  Or print it on a postcard that will go inside the folding card so the intended recipient can put it directly in their recipe box for future use.

Idea 2: Hang Thanksgiving cards from your chandelier or light fixture above your table to add some fun to your dining room decor!

Idea 3: Cut a paper leaf out of brown, red, orange or yellow construction paper, put your guests name on it and paste it to the corner of a Thanksgiving card.  Place the card on the plate or just behind it to create a unique and tasteful name card.  For an extra special touch, write a personal Thanksgiving message to each guest inside their place card.

Name Place Card

Idea 4: Line the bottom of a gift box with the fronts of Thanksgiving cards for a fun surprise at the bottom of your Thanksgiving baking handouts.

Idea 5: Create a door hanging decoration by tying Sharper™ Thanksgiving cards together with festive thanksgiving ribbon in a flowing line.  Glue on some wheat or leaves to add to the overall look.  And, putting a bell on the bottom will give it a little jingle of fun as your guests pass through your door.

Door Hang Decoration

Have fun with these crafty creative ideas! They are a great way to do something different with your Sharper™ Thanksgiving cards and will have your guests saying  “Oh how fun!” when they sit down to enjoy your yummy Thanksgiving dinner!

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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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Send a special greeting to your colleagues and patients or clients to express how much you appreciate their loyalty.  They will display them in their offices and home, creating instant referral opportunities.  Choose from our entire selection of Thanksgiving and Holiday Cards to take advantage of this special offer.

Receive 40% OFF Premium Holiday Cards or 20% OFF our Traditional Cards.  Quote promo code P811B when placing your order.  Hurry, these offers expires on August 31, 2011.   Ordering is easy, visit e-sharper.com or call 1-800-561-6677 and one of our Product Consultants will be happy to assist you.

We’ve got a wide selection of Holiday and Thanksgiving Cards for you to choose from.  Honor patients’ or clients’ loyalty and generate referrals with our premium Holiday and Thanksgiving Cards.  Printed on quality paper, these elegant designs, crafted with beautiful foils, glitters and embossing are sure to make a lasting impression.  All of our premium cards include free foil-lined envelopes.

Enjoy free personalization and our 100% satisfaction guarantee on all of our holiday products.  And, if you are in a rush, all of our products ships in 48 hours!

Make this Holiday season the ideal time to express your best wishes and appreciation to patients, clients, colleagues and friends for their continued loyalty!

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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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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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Reflect the pride you take in your practice with our Premium Thanksgiving Cards.  Thanksgiving is the ideal time to express your gratitude for your patients’ loyalty.  Promote return visits, encourage referrals or just say thank you!  These beautiful, large cards are complemented with foil accents and are printed on crafted paper stock.  All Premium Thanksgiving Cards come with FREE gold or silver lined envelopes, for that extra elegant touch.

Make an even greater impact this Thanksgiving by simply combining our Premium Thanksgiving Cards with our brand new 2011 Folding Calendar Cards.  Personalized with your practice information, calendar cards have a detachable calendar that patients can use throughout the season, giving your practice the extra brand exposure.

Moreover, to make your busy life a bit less stressful this Holiday Season, here is a great Sharper™ idea you can take advantage of:  t0 help you save time, we can digitize your signature, along with team members’ so you don’t have to go through the hassle of hand signing all your Thanksgiving cards.  We also have a wide selection of personalized messages for you to choose from, and with seven different personalization text colors available, the possibility to craft a look that is well suited to your practice is endless.

To view our complete selection of Thanksgiving products, please visit our website at www.e-sharper.com/thanksgiving.

In addition, you may follow us on Twitter or become a Facebook fan to receive great promotions that only social media subscribers will receive.

T’is the season to say thanks ― and to be jolly.  Some of us don’t realize how important it is that we express our gratitude for the loyalty and patronage that our clients have given us throughout the year.  In this season’s Pet Care Catalog, we at Sharper™ have made it easier for professionals in the pet care practice or business to communicate their appreciation to clients for their continued loyalty, referrals and support.

Brand new this season is our Holiday & Calendar Store which offers a wide selection of personalized communications and giveaways.  Showcasing some of the best products to effectively retain client loyalty and promote referrals, the Holiday and Calendar Store is now open for your shopping pleasure.  Simply visit www.e-sharper.com/holidaystore2010 for more information.

Some of our other fun products that are featured in this season’s catalog are Thanksgiving and Halloween products ― yes, Halloween is arriving soon, and what a better way to celebrate the season than with our Postcards and Folding Cards.                      

Another one of our featured products in this new catalog is Holiday Toothbrushes, definitely a unique pet owner giveaway.  Designed to encourage proper pet oral hygiene, these toothbrushes are a great way to keep your contact information visible for your clients.

Visit our website today to easily shop online at www.e-sharper.com.  And don’t forget to check out some of our other popular products such as Sharper Tags™, Sharper Leashes™, Sharper Tote Bags™ and Sharper Magnets™.

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.

It is often hard at Thanksgiving to save room for dessert.  We eat so much that by the time the pumpkin pie comes out we are all so stuffed we can barely eat anything else.  There is however one specific thing we should all save room for – and that is Thanksgiving Folding Cards and Postcards.

By sending patients business holiday cards to thank them for being a dedicated and memorable patient, it will encourage them to keep coming back to your office. With everything being so electronic and technology based now a days, it is a unique touch to send a personal note to the patients or clients you care about.

Ways to add a personal touch to your business holiday cards or business greeting cards;

• Add your digitized signature on the inside of the card for a one time fee of $35.
Have your entire staff sign a piece of paper, fax it over to us at
1.888.251.4454 and we will gladly add it to any business holiday card for you.

• Add an extra ink color.  Sharper™ has several standard ink colors so why not set
yourself apart by using our red or burgundy ink colors to have your card stand
out more than the rest.

• Business holiday cards are not as common for Thanksgiving as they are for the
winter holidays so why not send a thank you to your patients that will set you
apart from the competition and might be one of the few Thanksgiving cards they
receive?

“Why did Johnny get such low grades after Thanksgiving?”
“Because everything is marked down after the Holidays!”

The same applies here at Sharper™.  I will let you in on a little secret. Quote Promo code P1009C and you will receive 15% more Business Greeting Cards and/or Business Holiday Cards for FREE when you buy 100 or more. Just a little gift from me to say thank you to you for being a valued customer with Sharper™.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Taking every opportunity to say thanks, and doing it with taste and style will strengthen your image while building stronger relationships. Practices and businesses today are finding Thanksgiving season a great time of year to express appreciation to patients or clients for their loyalty. Sending business Thanksgiving greeting cards makes a nice addition to your usual personalized recall and appointment reminders, business cards and birthday greetings which are typically mailed throughout the year.

Our Sharper™ customer feedback surveys tell us that they are very pleased with the wide selection of high quality holiday card designs we are offering this year. Here are some tips to help you choose what will work for you:

• Avoid being buried in the Christmas rush of business holiday cards – get a head start with personalized Thanksgiving holiday or 2010 Thanksgiving calendar cards. Plus, think of how many fewer Christmas holiday cards you will need to send out! To keep your practice or business information top of mind even longer, the Thanksgiving calendar card is a great solution and slips nicely into a #10 envelope.

• Autumn is a time for reflection. The color palette is always a favorite -  Thanksgiving cards with appealing imagery have a very long life. With the right look and tasteful design that doesn’t scream, “I am a marketing piece”, your personalized folding card or postcard will sit on the recipient’s mantle until Christmas along with family and friends’.

• Choose designs that you know your patients or clients will enjoy - Think about their lifestyles and personalities. It’s about acknowledgment and emphasizing the fact that you are aware of their individuality.

• Choose a look that emphasizes your values and also connects with the values of your patients or clients – A traditional elegant look, offering well worded Thanksgiving greetings shows that your practice or business remains successful and stable, even during the trying economical times experienced over the past year. A humorous postcard may be a good fit for you and will reinforce the casual approach that you and your staff typically engage in during your daily interaction with patients or clients.

Schedule Thanksgiving into your marketing mix, and do it with beautiful imagery that will leave a lasting impression. These personalized business Thanksgiving cards are suitable to send to Dental, Financial, Chiropractic, Massage Therapy, Spa and Salon, Optometry and Veterinary patients or clients.