Consultant Depot - Direct Mail for Direct Sales

It's our 1-month Anniversary for our NEW Consultant Depot Website today! We've been overwhelmed with the positive and grateful comments from our clients! Here are just a few of what we've received since our launch one month ago:

"WOW! What a terrific enhancement to you services! I submitted my first mailing through your website. It was so simple to pick and choose my customers and pay. Thank you so much! This has saved me even more time!" :) Audrey

"WOW!!! What a GREAT idea! I'm so excited about using your business." Trish

"Pretty slick! I know next to nothing about most of the "computer" stuff, but this was real easy once I got in here! Thanks so much! Love the new site!" Rita

"Perfectly fine Carrie, thank you !!! My first full campaign of total customer mailings was Campaign 10....it was an incredible success and now I have so much more time for prospecting for new recruits!" Laurie

"I submitted my c13 brochure order today.... not waiting for later this week. =) It was easy as pie to create the list and make my payment." Suzanne

"I have to say I do love this site.
I like the way I can inactivate customers to send to only campaigns I want them to receive.
I like the pay pal feature.
I like your site period." Ellen

"I appreciate your help so much!! Your service has saved me SO much time! Not to mention $$." Ta Sha

"Congratulations on your new website! You probably don't know me, but I do remember when you announced your venture on the Avon_mark Yahoo Group. You've come a long way! I am impressed by how well-written your text-intensive site is. Good luck as your website takes off!" Kathy

"Your new website looks awesome! I love the new customer list system! I've enjoyed doing business with you and look forward to working with you for years to come." Jessica

"Carrie, Very cool! I spent way more time than I had just looking around at everything! Your hard work has really paid off. Kudos to the design team; they really captured your vision." Kerry

"I love your new site!! The convenience of doing it all online and choosing the customers, adding customers - everything is great!" Pat

"How nice - just uplaoded my list and edited it - no time at all! Congrats!" Carol

"It's beautiful, Carrie. Congratulations! Your hard work paid off!" Joanne

We would love to hear from you! What do you think about our new website design and fuctionality? For those of you who are new to Consultant Depot, we welcome your comments, too! We have come a long way from when we first began over 2 1/2 years ago - and we continue to service some of those original clients today!

Feel free to leave your thoughts as a comment to this Blog for others to see - thank you for your support of Consultant Depot! We always appreciate your time and business!

Have a great holiday weekend!

To Success!

Carrie Purgason
carrie@consultantdepot.com
http://www.consultantdepot.com

I became a member of the COPCC (Central Ohio Postal Customer Council) last year. Every month they have a luncheon and speaker that speaks on a different topic relating to issues we face as postal customers. Can you imagine how excited I was when I learned earlier this month that our May meeting would be held at the main Columbus processing plant - where a full tour of the facility and upclose experiences of the different mailing processes would be observable! I've heard stories, listened to my postmaster and USPS employees, talked with bulk mailing representatives, but none of those conversations will come close to being able to see for myself how it all works. Both Adam and myself have distribution management backgrounds and it will be interesting to see how the USPS handles the millions of pieces of mail they process each day first-hand!


Here's a quick summary of what we have going on with Consultant Depot this week:

Thursday, May 25th:
**Campaign 13 A week mailings to be dropped off to the post office (1 day earlier than usual, due to the holiday weekend)
**This is the one-month anniversary of our NEW Website!

Friday, May 26th - Monday, May 29th:
Our office will be closed for the holiday weekend with limited access to the internet. Personally, we are going to spend the weekend with my inlaws in Brown County, Indiana in a secluded log cabin in the woods and hoping to get a round of golf in, too!

Sunday, May 28th:
This is the updated deadline day for both the Campaign 13 B week mailings and the June Mystery Mailings. Both will be mailed out on the following Friday, June 2nd. If you feel that you will need assistance with uploading your customer lists or need any questions asked, we encourage you to ask prior to Friday, as we will not be able to get back to you until after the deadline has passed after then.

That's it for now - look for a email newsletter to arrive in your inbox tomorrow afternoon/evening - have a splendid week - and as always, thank you for your business!

To Success!

Carrie Purgason
http://www.consultantdepot.com
carrie@consultantdepot.com

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Wow! What a feeling! Within the last few minutes, I was accepted as a vendor for the DSWA, the Direct Selling Women's Alliance! It has been a long journey, but this was one of my goals from when we originally started our business 2 1/2 years ago! Consultant Depot finally has a website that makes us proud to share it with everyone we meet. The DSWA is a FANTASTIC organization and we are thrilled to be amongst such wonderful company! I'm tickled pink and can't wait to dive into the resources available through their members-only area and hope to attend as a vendor at their convention next year.

This is such a turning point in our business and I'm excited that you are here to share in this journey with us!

For more information about the DSWA and how you can join as a direct seller - visit their website at: http://www.mydswa.org/default.asp?Affiliate=19870

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1) Visit our blog page and under the 'About Me' section, you will find a place to enter your email address. You can go directly there by clicking here:

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2) Click on this link and enter your email address: http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=59896

We hope you find this useful - if you have any questions, please let me know! I am learning, along with most of you, how all this techie stuff works!

To Success!

Carrie Purgason
carrie@consultantdepot.com
http://www.consultantdepot.com

Hi there,

I received the following question today from one of our clients:

Our local newspaper puts in the real estate transfers for the area every Sunday. Was thinking about using your service to mail catalogs to the new people in my area. Do you know of anyone that has tried this method or a similar method and what kind of results they got?

What do you think? Have any of you tried this method? What a great idea, right?

I know when we moved here to Columbus about 2 years ago, we received mail from several small businesses that used this exact method to find us! In fact, many of them stated so right in their mailing. Being new to town, we appreciated this information and have used several of these businesses because of this unique marketing approach. For example, one of the pieces was a local company that did exterior painting - we saved their information and had them repaint the trim on our house last spring!

Have any of you retrieved this information for mailing Avon catalogs? We welcome your feedback, stories, and comments - let others know if this method has worked or is appealing to you!

To Success!

Carrie Purgason
carrie@consultantdepot.com
http://www.consultantdepot.com

Hi Everyone!

***We received the 1/2 sheetflyers yesterday from Avon to be stuffed in between pages 4-5 of theCampaign 12 brochure!! Your customers will receive the Campaign 12 brochures with thesuggested flyers in place! Thank you for your patience!

***The Avon Campaign 12 B week deadline is approaching...please make sure your customer lists are processed through our online system no later than 10pm EST tomorrow night, on May 12th!

***The Avon Campaign 13 A week & Trendsetter Campaign 15 deadline is next Friday, May 19th, by 10pm EST!!

***We have had several hundred registerants on our new website since our launch on April 25th! We're so glad to have you join us!

***Thank you for your part in helping us spread the word about our direct mailing services to Avon customers! Learn more about our popular Referral Program and how you can BENEFIT from telling your fellow Avon friends about Consultant Depot today! It only takes a little effort to reap A LOT of rewards!

Have a nice evening!

To Success!

Carrie Purgason
carrie@consultantdepot.com
http://www.consultantdepot.com

For each purchase in increments of $20.00, Consultant Depot gives away $1.00 to each client for a future purchase! This is our way of saying 'Thank You for Your Business!' and more! We have updated the purchases made through Friday, May 5th and you will find your credits added to your online Consultant Depot accounts! To view your account balance, login and go to the Account Information page. At the top of the page, you will find the number of credits remaining in your Consultant Depot account!

To get started on your Consultant Depot journey, click here to begin!

Thank you for your business - have a great day!

To Success!

Carrie Purgason
http://www.consultantdepot.com

Okay, so after reading through my previous post, you may be thinking to yourself, "But what does this have to do with Consultant Depot?" So, in a related sense, I thought I'd fill you in on what I was working on in the backseat of our minivan this weekend...

I was rewarding our loyal referral clients with FREE MAILING CREDITS!! Since we started this business 2 1/2 years ago, we've literally given out thousands of $$ in mailing credits, as part of our Referral Incentive Program. You can reap the benefits of being the first to tell your fellow downline, Avon friends and district members. This is an on-going thank you for helping us spread the word about our program for their first six months of purchases through our Consultant Depot website! For as long as those representatives that you refer to us participate, you will receive free credits!

In this weekend session alone, I rewarded our referrees with a combined $327.00 in FREE mailing credits! So, thank you to those of you who have helped us - it truly means so much to us!

Visit our website or Email me if you would like more information about this rewarding program!

To Success!

Carrie Purgason
http://www.consultantdepot.com

Over this past weekend, our family went back to my hometown of Fort Wayne, Indiana to attend the wedding of my brother's best friend on Saturday (about 3 hours from here). We then traveled to Covington, Indiana on Sunday (about 3 1/2 hours from FW) to attend a 'surprise' birthday party for Adam's brother and traveled home last night (about 4 hours from Covington). So, as you can see, we drove a lot of miles in a short period of time with 2 little ones in the backseat. Our kids are usually pretty good on long trips - we are lucky! However, we finally invested in a dual screen DVD player for the kids to enjoy - what a treat it was for us all! If they weren't snoozing or enjoying the sights, Baby Einstein or Finding Nemo was there to turn on the charm! On Sunday morning's drive to Covington, I was able to convert the backseat of our van into a mini-work station and cranked out a bunch of emails on my laptop that were on my to-do list all week!

The wedding was beautiful, the weather was near perfect, the birthday party was a 'near' surprise and it was a delight to see family members and friends who had yet to meet Jessica and was awhile since they saw Alex. We drove by a road much traveled by in the past, our old house in Fishers, Indiana and that's a whole other swoop of memories to reminisce.

It was a very blessed weekend. For a non-stop whirlwind weekend like that, I feel pretty refreshed and recharged! Now...back to work!