Vinings Stationery

2nd March 2010, 11:31 am

A woman recently told the story about how she sat down to write thank you cards after a series of job interviews… and she could barely write. She says she can’t even remember the last time she wrote something down on paper instead of shooting off in an email or typing it in a document. It’s insane how much of our time is spent online, but putting pen to paper is still very important. One reason you still need to write is to send notes of appreciation to interviewers for positions you have interviewed for.

It can be easy to get carried away on thank you cards for potential employers, but there is no reason to rewrite your resume on the card. Try to stick to a few points. The first point is that you are grateful they took the time to interview you. You are grateful! It is getting you that much closer to a job. Let them know you are happy you had the chance to talk and express your interest and suitability for the position.

The great thing about thank you cards for interviews is that you can take the opportunity to clarify or explain anything that you felt wasn’t laid out properly in an interview. Often, we remember something or regret a statement in an interview and want to be able to let the employer what you really meant. This is that chance. Don’t delve into details or apologize for anything that came off funny. Be simple, direct and clear. An employer will surely appreciate the extra information, but if you come off as desperate or you keep apologizing, that might leave a bad taste.

The more you can pull out from the interview and mention in the card, the better. Bring up a funny anecdote that the interviewer told or mention that you did look at that competitor’s website that they mentioned. It shows that you have a good memory and can help them remember your interview as well. Often companies will interview several people for a job, so making them remember you or recall you later is a great way to stick out.

Finally, scrap all of these rules if you have good intuition and feel like you understand the interviewer’s tastes and needs. If the interviewer likes details and plenty of information, then give him a longer card reiterating all of the skills you have and what you would do for the company. If the interviewer was lighthearted and looking for someone that fit the personality of the company, then let yours out in the card. Good luck!

27th January 2010, 10:48 am

Despite our technology-advanced world, some people still prefer the old fashioned ways of snail mail because it is more professional and formal than email. To send a letter through the mail system, for example, thanking job prospects for their time following an interview in a stamped and sealed envelope may merit more credibility than just some crummy basic email. But to send a letter on personalized stationary is to go that extra step and say “I care about my work as a professional individual.” Especially when in the midst of a job hunt, customized stationary can be that one key differing factor that makes you stand apart from everyone else, and that ultimately lands you the job over anyone else. Set your letter, and yourself, apart from others with matching designed stationary and envelopes. Personalize your stationary to achieve that high quality, business ready attitude.

Whether it is for career advancements or friendly correspondence, personalized stationary offers a personal detail of care and class that can not be attained by anything else. Reawaken lost friendships through letters by correspondence. Send holiday letters on the full size length of 8×11 paper instead of those basic holiday Hallmark cards. Your recipients will surely feel the love through your decision to start your own tradition through a thought-bearing letter on stationary with matching themes on the envelopes.

No matter what the occasion, your stationary will merit the most response. People will comment on the elegance and notice the professionalism and care you give to all aspects of your life. Why not say what you want not only with words but with a carefully selected theme for matching stationary and envelopes. Amaze your family, dazzle your boss and connect with your friends this holiday and all the more to come with stationary that is personal to you and captures the passion and uniqueness of your personality and quirks.

Stationary is good for anything where a card or phone call would work. It requires extra time to do, so the time is automatically seen in the arrival of a stamped and sent letter. If you are congratulating someone on the new birth of their baby or thanking someone for their thoughtful birthday gift, or just rehashing the good old days with a high school chum, you never have to gyp yourself on the quality that makes you proud to be you.

Christopher Hoffman

7th January 2010, 11:32 am

Customized stationery is great at the office. You’ll find dozens of different uses for your stationery. No matter what your position may be you will find useful applications for personalized stationery and a selection of different types of custom correspondence that you can have on your desk ready to use.

Do you need to send a quick note off to another employee? By using your own personalized stationery not only can you guarantee that your note will stand out amidst a pile of papers on their desk but it will also look more professional. Even if the note itself is about something mundane, you can be sure that it will be read.

Having your own stationary on hand also comes in handy when it is time to remember important information for yourself. If your desk is piled up with a mass of papers your stationary will stand out always garnering your attention and directing you towards whatever it is that you wrote down upon it.

And for office workers there are a number of different options available to you when selecting the appropriate stationary for your desk top. You can choose to purchase personalized 3.5″ square little notes for all of your little reminders. These are great little sticky notes that will work well to serve as reminders for you and your coworkers.

There are also personalized cards that you can choose to have monogrammed. These cards are great to use as thank you’s when a coworker does you a favor or excels in a task that you requested of them. You can simply jot down a little note on the inside of the card, place it in an envelope and then leave it on their desk. These types of note cards are great for any type of correspondence that you want to be concealed.

You can also purchase 1/3 sheet of paper note packs with a personalized message on them for larger correspondence needs. By having your name monogrammed on the bottom and a note such as: “From the desk of…” at the top your notes, they will stand out and it will always be clear as to where the directive is coming from.

While personalized stationary is always great to have on hand in the home it can also be extremely useful in the workplace. You can select the type of paper products that you think will come in handy the most, or purchase them all so that you will always have the perfect paper on hand to fulfill your needs.

Christopher Hoffman

13th January 2010, 11:36 am

Jane grew up in the Midwest and lived a traditional lifestyle – a mom, dad and two brothers, a dog in the backyard and kids playing in the front. Every day she’d take a packed lunchbox to school, and tucked within would be personalized notes from her mother. She’d save the notes, but not out of sentimentality. Jane would come home, empty the lunchbox and set the notes aside in a side drawer.

After eating lunchbox food for nine years, Jane entered high school and left the lunchbox and personalized notes behind. The notes lingered in a drawer, eventually navigating up to her cedar chest along with old valentines and saved corsages from school dances. She left for college, moved out west and started her own life. When it came time to settle in her new house with her own family, she brought the cedar chest with her and started to review its contents.

Those personalized notes from her mother came as a shock to Jane. She finally sat down to reread them all – nine years’ worth. Many of the notes were simple – an “I love you,” or a reminder to enjoy the day. But some of them were insights in to her life growing up. One note told her how proud her mom was of her performance at a piano recital. Another told a story about her mom watching from a distance as Jane took care of a younger nerdy neighborhood girl. Memories from her childhood that she didn’t know existed came flooding back.
What really struck Jane was that her mom took the time to write a note every single day, even though Jane can never remember remarking on them. Day in and day out, her mom reminded her of her love, and day in and day out Jane failed to realize this as a kid. The most remarkable thing is that those daily notes, meant to be tossed aside in order to get to the sandwich and pudding, were inexplicably saved, a physical reminder of her mother’s love.

Jane framed many of the little notes, placing them throughout her new child’s nursery. She said it would be a perfect reminder of her own mother’s presence the child’s life. It was also a reminder to herself that even when you think your child is not paying attention, all those displays of motherly love do make a difference some day.

Christopher Hoffman

13th December 2009, 03:02 pm

Has someone gone out of their way to show you unexpected kindness? Have you received an extremely thoughtful and caring gift from someone? Perhaps while you were feeling under the weather, a neighbor picked some groceries up for you and brought them to your apartment?

If this has happened to you, it’s important for you to send out proper thank you cards to show your appreciation. The sender who brightened your day will know that you truly feel honored and special because they took time out of their schedule to improve your life.

When you’re picking out your thank you cards, you can decide what style and design you think might be the most appropriate.

If you think you’re going to mostly send them out to business associates, you might want to opt for a more formal choice. Try cards that have an elegant script or are printed on a heavy card stock in a more subtle color.

If you think you’re going to be giving them to your friends, you can have more fun with the font and choose one of your favorite colors. You can even add some fun designs that suit your personality.

You also might want to consider sending out trendy Eco-friendly cards. They are great for the environment, definitely in style and they make a unique impression.

Eco-friendly cards come in an excellent assortment of colors and designs, so don’t fall into the common misconception that they have to be boring, brown and dull.

Regardless of the kind of thank you cards you choose to send, they are a very important way for you to let people know you care.

It’s easy to just write a quick e-mail to convey your message, but taking the time to sit down and write a letter is much more personal and intimate.

Plus, when you pre-order thank you notes and have them on hand for occasions such as this, then writing your thank you notes by hand can easily become as simple as e-mail.

One thing is always for sure: you will make your recipient feel just as special as you felt when you received their thoughtful gift.

Author: DanandTomJacobs

When you need more stationery than your desktop inkjet printer can produce as one-offs, then it’s time to turn to a corporate stationery printers to get the job done.

But what should you look out for when selecting which printing company to entrust with your company stationery?

First of all the term business stationery can include a lot of different items. So let’s just define the kind of printing we are talking about here. Potentially these are the sort of items we mean.

Letterheads? Continuation Sheets? Envelopes? Compliment Slips? Business Cards? Printed Order Forms? Invoices? Statements?

In fact the list is pretty endless, so this isn’t meant to be exhaustive, but you get the idea.

Next, consider the quantity of corporate stationery that you need to get printed. The reason I mention this is that many printers will be set up to handle a certain amount of stationery production, but once you bust through their print threshold they will struggle to provide you with competitive prices for the level of print run you require.

Now of course most commercial printer do not advertise quite where their print run thresholds like for stationery, meaning that you need to ask a couple of savvy questions in order to find out whether you are getting advice and requesting a quote from the kind of printing company who can really provide you with the best bulk stationery printing service.

What is your average print run of letterhead, compliments slips, etc?

This is the leading question you should pose to any printers you approach to ask for a commercial stationery print quote. But it is of course the first question that you should also ask yourself. Exactly what is your need? Is it for 1,000 or 100,000 letterhead or more?

If you are clear about your own requirements then you will find it much easier to request a relevant quote.

Right, now approach the corporate stationery printers and ask them what their usual print runs are. Some printers are best set up to produce low quantity print runs of stationery. This is usually based on the capabilities of their particular printing presses.

If you are in need of say 250,000 letterheads then you will typically find that your high street or small family firm of printers in unlikely to have the print machinery available to produce what you require.But there is a very simple way to get to the bottom of this, and yet most people in charge of ordering their company bulk stationery fail to ask the question. Simple approach your prospective printer and ask them what kind of print runs constitute normal for them?

By the way, there is a caveat to the advice above.

Corporate stationery printing comes in more than one flavour. If you look at your own company stationery you will be aware that it is printed in a number of different colours. These will typically consist of 1, 2 or 3 Pantone spot colours. And if the number of colours exceed three then the chances are that your stationery is printed in 4 colour, which is also somewhat confusingly known as full and/or process colour printing.

So be sure to ask about average commercial stationery print runs, but add in the question about whether this is in spot or process colour. If nothing else, the printing company producing your stationery quote will suddenly be aware that you are someone who knows what they are talking about!

Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/business-articles/quickly-and-easily-get-your-company-stationery-printed-3275630.html

Author: Sarah Porter

There is a lot of stationery involved when planning a wedding. This is due to the numerous events that surround the wedding itself and each event has it’s own set of stationery. One of the most important pieces of stationery is a thank you card, and there are lots of them. Bridal shower thank you cards, wedding shower thank you cards, marriage announcement thank you cards, Bachelorette party thank you cards, rehearsal dinner thank you cards, elopement announcement thank you cards, engagement announcement and engagement party thank you cards, and last but not least, wedding thank you cards. 

Depending on the event, the bridal shower and wedding thank you cards will each state something different. There are some thank you cards that are only used to thank the guest for coming to the event, as gifts are not generally given at the event. This is the case for Bachelorette party invitation cards, engagement announcement thank you cards (if the announcement wasn’t at a party) and rehearsal dinner thank you cards. 

Other events will bring many gifts and in these cases, the guest needs to be thanked both for their attendance and for the gift that was received. These thank you cards include bridal shower thank you cards, wedding shower thank you cards, marriage announcement thank you cards, elopement announcement thank you cards, engagement party thank you cards, and wedding thank you cards. 

The tone of the cards sent will depend on the tone of the event. Generally wedding thank you cards will be the most formal, as the wedding thank you cards wording is often also the most formal. Bridal shower thank you cards can be a bit more casual but these too, usually lean towards a more formal tone with formal bridal shower thank you card wording. Marriage announcement thank you cards, rehearsal dinner thank you cards, elopement thank you cards, engagement announcements and engagement party thank you cards, are also a bit more casual but will always keep with the tone of the event. The least formal of all are Bachelorette party thank you cards, and parties such as lingerie bridal shower thank you cards. 

The wedding and bridal shower thank you cards wording should reflect the tone of the event. For a bridal shower that’s held during the day at someone’s house could have quite casual bridal shower thank you wording. Something such as “Thanks for attending my bridal shower and helping me celebrate the big day!” would be appropriate. For a lingerie bridal shower, the lingerie bridal shower thank you cards should say something fun. “I can’t wait to knock Robert’s socks off with your lovely present that I am so grateful for!” could be something written on a lingerie bridal shower thank you card. 

The wedding thank you cards should also reflect the tone of the wedding. For formal weddings, you may want to include “You’re generous gift will be of great help to us as we start our lives together.” But for a more informal wedding thank you card you may want to make it very personal such as, “We loved the dinnerware that you gave us! We can’t wait to use it!” 

Whatever event you’re sending wedding thank you cards for, it should always keep with the tone of the event’s invitation or theme of the party.

Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/weddings-articles/thank-you-cards-for-bridal-showers-and-wedding-showers-party-349203.html

About the AuthorAbout the Author: Sara Porter is Press Agent for many articles and websites including Bridal Shower Thank You Cards, Wedding Shower Thank You Cards, Lingerie Bridal Shower Thank You Cards and more.