PPB (Promotional Products Business Magazine) recently asked recipients of this year’s PPAI Supplier Star Award to comment on the elements they think are critical to ensuring long-lasting customer satisfaction. Check out the 24 Best Ideas For Memorable Customer Service. Don’s are listed as the top 3! We appreciate the praises we receive for our customer service commitment from our customers most of all. Check out the full article in the most recent issue of PPB

24 Best Ideas For Memorable Customer Service

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We are very excited to announce that our new 2011 collection of seed paper products are now featured on Felt and Wire Shop. I have been a long time fan of  the Felt and Wire Shop-every thing they carry is unique and beautifully designed!  How can you not love a website when their collection spans from reusable fabric wrapping paper to peacock place cards.  So thanks again to Felt and Wire Shop for adding seed paper to your mix.   -Abby

WE ARE NOW SOLD AT THE FELT & WIRE SHOP

There are a couple of things we do a lot of here at Bloomin, we make a lot of plantable paper, and we print on a lot of seed paper.
We print using three methods:
1) Offset printing, it’s fast, easy, (sort of) and fairly cheap. Unfortunately, all that pressure kills off a lot of seeds.

2) Inkjet printing, it’s slow, problematic, frustrating, and ink cost a fortune, but it looks great, the ink is very eco, and no seeds are damaged in the process.

3) Letterpress printing, it’s old school work, so-so speed, a lot of set up and clean up, very challenging to do a good job, really fun unless the job is super long. The only seeds that are killed are where the ink is laid down because the get squished, and the ink is soy-based, and quite eco.

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Thank You Inside Weddings for posting Bloomin’ Invites in your “What’s New” section as a Hot Trend. It’s just a small shout out, but we really appreciate that you noticed our designs and brought attention to them on your site. Emily Burrows designed them and we think they are beautiful. If you would like to check out the post, click here for a look.

Inside Weddings Blog about Bloomin Invites

Ok, here is a great product – growfetti. We are offering a package of about 400 little seeded flower shapes for $15.00. Each package includes two sizes of flowers, both are quite small, less than an inch diameter. I hope you like them. They come in four color combinations – whites, brights, naturals and pastels. Of course you can get them at www.bloomin.com

Growfetti - seed paper confetti

They are so fun I want to cover my floor with them and wade through them every time I come home. I want to sprinkle them on the tables at our neighborhood coffee shop and watch everyone smile when they sit down. I want to fly over Red Rocks amphitheater in a helicopter and dump a million of them over the crowd at the next concert but I won’t. No I wont, but I may sprinkle them on the tables next time I have a party at my house and I may put a sprinkling of them in the next letter I send out. They are a great wedding seed favor, you can’t beat the message, you know, “Our Love Grows” and on and on.

They’re made using our original  seed paper, the rough, textured and colorful paper that is packed with seeds. We get like…. 96 flowers I think out of an 8 1/2″ x 11″ sheet. They are super cool, but a lot of work to pop all of those flower out of the sheet and get them into a bag.  Anyone need a job?         … just kidding

Thanks – Tom Noyes

We’ve got great education-themed promotions at Bloomin Promotions for any kind of learning institution. Seed paper makes a unique statement about growing minds!

Bloomin Back to School SSGP

Preferred distributors can download a flyer here.