Printz is Moving January 29, 2016

In October of this year Printz, Postcardbuilder and Directmailtools were sold to The Bernard Group. Effective 2/2015 Printz will be located at the Bernard Group in Chanhassen MN. If you need to place an order go to www.printz.com or call 612-436-0007 .

As such we are looking for a tenant at 1499 West River Road to lease our space. The space is in the North Loop and has office and manufacturing/warehouse space. It has free parking and is beautifully located right on the River Road. 1499 West River Road for lease

It has been my pleasure to work with you all and I know the staff at Printz and The Bernard Group will take good care of you.

More openings at Printz.com

Printing & Direct Mail Account Manager –

The Bernard Group, parent company of  www.Postcardbuilder.com, www.Directmailtools.com, www.Printz.com  and www.printzpromo.com has a position available for an inside sales print account manager that will consult with our clients to create, printing, direct mail and promotional product solutions.

You will be a member of our 14 person sales team, which falls under The Bernard Group’s small format printing umbrella. The Bernard Group is a 450 person 100% Employee Owned visual communications company that specializes in large and small format digital print and direct mail solutions.

We are looking for someone to provide customer service to our existing customer base as well as develop new business through referrals and uncovering new opportunities with their customers.  80% of your day would be spent following up on custom quote requests and facilitating orders and providing customer quotes. 20% of your day would be spent developing new business opportunities. The ideal candidate will have previous account management experience in printing or direct mail. Graphic Design background is a plus. You should be highly organized and detail oriented. This is a very fast paced environment with most of our printing jobs completed in one or two business days so you must respond to requests quickly. We will train on the specific products and direct mail programs that we offer but a natural problem solver who likes to create marketing solutions and solve puzzles would be ideal. You should be entrepreneurial, have great customer rapport and like a challenge.  All candidates should be proficient with computers and know the office suite of products. Working knowledge of Excel or Access databases would be helpful.

$26,400 base plus 6% commission on print sales – 10% on new business sales. Full medical and dental benefits plus 401K. First year compensation would be in the $32-35,000 range and would grow every year.

We are a great company full of smart, driven and talented people with lots of room for advancement if you are a superstar. Please submit your resume to Stephanie Hansen at stephanie@hammerdirect.com

Direct Mail and Print Marketing Specialist Wanted

Full Time Inside Sales

Direct Mail and Print Marketing Specialist

The Bernard Group, parent company of  www.Postcardbuilder.com, www.Directmailtools.com, www.Printz.com  and www.printzpromo.com has a position available for an inside sales account manager that will consult with our clients to create direct mail, printing and promotional product solutions. You will be a member of our 12 person direct mail sales team, which falls under The Bernard Group’s small format printing umbrella. The Bernard Group is a 450 person 100% Employee Owned visual communications company that specializes in large and small format digital print and direct mail solutions.

The idea candidate for this position is self-directed, entreprenurial and is comfortable with technology, able to think quickly on their feet and can consult with their clients on the phone to deliver a solution based sales approach. You should like building rapport with your clients on the telephone and be a great communicator with your written words.

Every day you will be provided leads from our web sites that will need help and consultation on printing, direct mail and promotional product solutions. Most of our clients are small-medium size businesses and will need you to walk them through the best solutions and strategies for their industries. We will train you on the types of direct mail marketing solutions but you should be a natural problem solver, with a sales aptitude who likes to create marketing solutions and has experience in consultative selling and helping people strategically work through their marketing challenges. You will be teamed with a graphic designer that will produce the printed and mailed pieces for your client’s campaign so you will need to be a good communicator and get your clients ideas across on paper as well as help them design custom offers designed to get the best response rates. Typical industries you will be working in include, Insurance, Home Improvement, Medical, Dental, Real Estate, Retail and Services.

You should be entrepreneurial in your pursuits and enjoy problem solving. You should be good at basic math and feel comfortable with computers and Excel as you will be working with data and producing quotes for clients so attention to detail is important. This job is very fast paced as you will be dealing with 8-10 new clients each day from many industries. You must be comfortable logging activities into contact management software and organized as you will be managing many mailing campaigns at once. College graduates with previous sales and marketing experience are a great fit for this opportunity as well as account managers or people in administrative roles that are looking to have more client interaction and increased income potential in a sales role.

The Bernard Group is an employee owned company with many opportunities for advancement for strong sales people.  $26,400 base plus 6-10% commission on print sales. First Year Compensation should be $32,000 - $35,000. Compensation increases each year by about 10-20%. Full medical and dental benefits plus 401K. Free parking

Please submit your resume to Stephanie Hansen at stephanie@hammerdirect.com

We are hiring! Full Time Chat Marketing Specialist

Full Time – Chat Marketing Specialist

Direct Mail and Printing Company

The Bernard Group, parent company of  www.Postcardbuilder.com, www.Directmailtools.com, www.Printz.com  and www.printzpromo.com has a position available for a Full Time chat marketing specialist. The chat marketing specialist will work our direct mail websites www.Postcardbuilder.com and  www.Directmailtools.com,  to create leads and sales opportunities for our inside sales staff.

You will be expected to chat with customers visiting our web sites and answer basic customer service questions while assessing opportunities for larger relationships and consultative sales opportunities you will be a member of our 12 person direct mail sales team, which falls under The Bernard Group’s small format printing umbrella. The Bernard Group is a 450 person 100% Employee Owned visual communications company that specializes in large and small format digital print and direct mail solutions.

The idea candidate for this position is self-directed, entreprenurial and is very comfortable with technology, able to think quickly on their feet and can consult with their clients in a way that makes the clients want more information. This is a very fast paced job. You should be an excellent written communicator, a fast accurate typer and be able to build rapport with your clients online. You should be good at basic math and feel comfortable with Excel as you will be working with data and producing quotes for clients so attention to detail is important. College graduates with previous sales and marketing experience are a great fit for this opportunity as well as account managers or people in administrative roles that are looking to have more client interaction.

 

Most of our clients are small-medium size businesses and we walk them through the best solutions and strategies for their industries in direct mail. We will train you on the types of direct mail marketing solutions but you should be a natural problem solver, with a sales aptitude who likes to create marketing solutions and has experience in consultative selling and helping people strategically work through their marketing challenges. Typical industries you will be working in include, Insurance, Home Improvement, Medical, Dental, Real Estate, Retail and Services.

 

The Bernard Group is an employee owned company with many opportunities for advancement for strong sales people.  The chat specialist role starts at $15 an hour with incentives and bonus opportunities for leads closed. Full medical and dental benefits plus 401K and employee ownership opportunities. Free parking -

 

Please submit your resume to Stephanie Hansen at Shansen@Printz.com  

Should you send business holiday cards to your clients?

Ste.

 As a sales manager at various media organizations through my career we were faced with this question and long before I owned a printing company my answer was always... YES!

Holiday cards are a tradition in the United States and even if your customers have different holiday traditions than you - the "holiday season" is generally accepted by all. Let customers and clients know that they are important to you and thinking about you. Whether you have 1 client or 100 sending a greeting card during the traditional holiday season has several purposes:

Make People feel Good:

Lets face it. Cards make people feel good. Cards that are personalized or signed in some way let the recipient know you are thinking about them. We can scan your signature and send your card in our "handwritten font" so if you have lots of cards to send they all look personalized. 

New this year at Printz are Popcards. (www.Popcards.com) PopCards are the newest innovation in Greeting Cards that combine both a photo and video in an augmented reality experience. Imagine getting a holiday card in the mail from your daughter in law. There is a photo on the card with an icon that says, "View with PopCards", a downloadable iOS or Android app. You scan the photo with the app  and it instantly comes to life with a full video of your grandkids giving santa their wish list!  Watch a demo of this amazing technology here. $1 from every order place with popcards will be donated to Childrens Cancer Reaserch Fund - this is the ultimate way to make people feel good by giving back! 

Get your customer list in order:
Getting an address list together for holiday's cards forces you to get your client or prospect list organized for the New Year. Come January you have a clean database for client and prospect mailings.

One more impression:
They say marketing your business is a game of inches and in the last year most of us needed all the help we can get staying in front of customers to remind them that when budgets get more robust we are still there and would love to do business with them.

You are organized and on top of your game:
You get points for efficiency and organization as a company when your professional looking cards arrive in your customer or prospects mail box. Generally you want to have your business cards in the mail by December 18, 2015.

Let Printz.com help you design and personalize your folded holiday greeting card. We can provide "holiday" themes and designs you can pick from or we can customize a card specifically for your office with a picture of your staff, office or even your new products you are excited to roll out in the coming year. View all of our design templates  at www.printzpro.com/holidaycards/  today to create a greeting card that is all your own and reflects your companies personal style. Have a card already designed? Upload it here at www.printz.com

Click here to start your custom card order or to view our holiday card selections but hurry - If we receive your order by 5pm On Wednesday November 25 we will include free plain envelopes and if you want us to mail at least 100 cards or more to your list you will save $25 when you place your order by 11.30.2015

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Opening for a Production Graphic Designer

Production Design Associate (North Loop Mpls)

compensation: $12/hr
employment type: full-time

Hammer Direct is a growing printing and mailing business with websites www.postcardbuilder.com, www.printz.com and www.directmailtools.com. The production design postition is an entry level opportunity. This person will be checking submitted graphics, creating orders, and some original design as needed. We will train, but must be proficient in Adobe softwares. Please send a resume or e-mail work history to Sheena@printz.com. Full time position M-F 9 to 5.

Account Manager at Growing Direct Mail Company

 Mailing List, Printing, Promotional Products & Direct Mail Specialist

Hammer Direct, parent company of www.Postcardbuilder.com, www.Directmailtools.com, www.Printz.com has a position available for a account manager that will consult with our clients to create direct mail, printing and promotional product solutions. Hammer Direct is a locally owned Minnesota company.

We are looking for someone with a great phone personality and the ability to work with a national client base to develop a direct mail strategy, printing and list purchase. We will train for the specifics of learning direct mail strategies, selling promotional products and printing to small businesses but you should be a natural problem solver who likes to create marketing solutions and has experience in consultative selling. All of your work will be on the phone handling warm leads generated by our marketing department. You will work with the clients to help them develop a successful marketing campaign based on their needs and what we typically see in their industries as marketing best practices. You will work with your client and our staff graphic designers to help them purchase a targeted mailing list, design and implement a successful postcard or letter mailing campaign as well as print items and promotional products.

You should be good at math and computers as you will be working with data and list management and also producing quotes for clients with lots of variables so attention to detail is important. This job is very fast paced as you will be dealing with 8-10 new clients each day from many industries. You must be organized as you will be managing many mailing campaigns at once. College graduates with previous sales and marketing experience are a great fit for this opportunity as well as Account Managers or people in administrative roles that are looking to have more client interaction and increased income potential.

All candidates should be proficient with computers and know the office suite of products. Working knowledge of Excel or Access databases would be helpful. We bring you the leads and you consult with the client via phone and email to create the marketing solution that will work best for their situation. You help the client work with our graphic designers to create print and mailed products that will meet their marketing needs.

Expected first year income is $32,000 with subsequent jumps each year of around $10,000 a year as your base of regular customers grows. Actual compensation is $26,400 base plus 6-10% commission on print and promotional product sales. Business casual office environment with a staff of 12 account managers with you on your team. Full medical and dental benefits plus 401K. North Loop Minneapolis location with Free Parking.

Please submit your resume to Stephanie Hansen at stephanie@hammerdirect.com