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Does Your Organization Manage Events or Mailings Generating over $25,000 for Charities?

If the answer is yes, many of the below benefits will help your organization achieve its 2010-2011 business goals, just as they did with some of our recent charities and events, including Rotary International, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Rise N' Shine, Fare Start, Outdoors for All, the Children's Academy.  

Our Charity CDs have helped raise record auction revenues and attendance records - with up to a third of the auction revenue being raised in the days leading to and before the actual event!  Invitees can see and actively bid on auction items through our self-updating multimedia CDs, as well as purchase tickets and make donations through them.  We have even had cases of invitees donating thousands of dollars in the days and weeks following the charity event as they returned from vacation and were just getting to use their CDs.

Our patent pending technology, just recently published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, enables our multimedia CDs to seamlessly update themselves with your latest information each time they are used - text, pictures, PDFs, video and more - to present users a fresh and enjoyable interactive experience each and every time!  They can also include up to an hour of regular music when played in a car or home stereo to add additional entertainment value.

Our charity clients partner with us to increase their productivity, save time, increase revenues, capture leads, gather customer information and provide improved service to their charities by maximizing event attendance, sponsorships and auctions; keeping them constantly engaged with a self-updating tangible resource they will read, listen to, watch, easily carry and always keep!

Past Charity and Event CD success highlights include: Allowing/empowering recipients to be able to learn about the charity/event, become an attendee/sponsor/donor and purchase/bid/donate through the multimedia CDs leading up to and even after the event.  Results include back-to-back record-breaking charity event attendance records,  back-to-back online/silent auction revenue records, raising a third of the event revenue prior to the night of the event, with thousands of dollars of donation days/weeks after the event... Ask for details!

*      INCREASE event attendance, cash sponsorship and auction donations!  Ask us how we helped achieve year-after-year event attendance records and auction records for a major charity gala event two years in a row!

*      SAVE TIME  without cutting corners or sacrificing value. Improve and streamline information flow with your sponsors, donors, invitees, and the media; both leading up to and after your event or mailings.  Our CDs enjoy over a 95% retention rate and help achieve record results! They utilize a recent innovation known as "Hybrid" or "Enhanced" CD technology, which combines over an hour of top quality music for your car & home stereo, and rich multimedia content for your PC & Mac.

*      OFFER AND ACCOMPLISH MORE  Using our patent-pending technology, add new channels of communication while providing a higher quality service and product  ●  Produce and distribute more/multiple publications for the price of one - event invitations, charity information, electronic purchase/donation/bid forms and more  ●  Add limitless pages of content and ad space without increasing your costs   Stop worrying about print cycles, production deadlines, page number, size and weight constraints   Enjoy unlimited updates with the ability to edit any portion of your publications, anytime, with your latest multimedia information - text, pictures, PDFs, video and more - to present users a fresh and enjoyable experience each time they view them   Instantly add new information; sponsors, donors and advertisers when they decide to come on board, search/edit/update their content anytime, block/remove at will    Maximize your control on your publications while minimizing dependence on contractors  ●  Eliminate time loss - have your updates reach your target audience instantly, as opposed to going through laborious print cycles each time   Keep your audience constantly engaged with a self-updating tangible resource they will read, listen to, watch, easily carry and always keep! Give them the gift of music!  

*      GO GREEN! Save trees, reduce your carbon footprint and enhance your printing with a new alternative medium, completely biodegradable and up to 100% paper recyclable. Your target audience will appreciate, keep, and respond much easier and more so compared to paper - and they can always print it themselves or request a hardcopy if they really want!

*      TRACK RESULTS with insightful and detailed tracking information. Monitor how many people react and make decisions (website visits, emails, phone calls, electronic purchases, bids and donations) owing to your marketing and communications.

We firmly believe that this revolutionary marketing solution will benefit you and your organization with its proven value add -  so much so that we guarantee to help you achieve similar success or we will give you a $5,000 gift for your trouble. 

Imagine what this could do for you!  We are now sharing this opportunity with charities and non-profit organizations all across America. In fact, we are in touch with many of the top charities, foundations and non-profits and are in the process of arranging to show this in their management meetings.  We would love to arrange a coffee or phone introduction to make sure you also see this important information.  Please call us at (800) 605-1782 or email us at cleversolutions@imaginecds.com and we will be more than happy to share with you additional facts and details to help you explore this opportunity, while providing client testimonials and referrals.

Sincerely,

          

"Thanks to technology, change has never been so easy - or so cheap" Wall Street Journal, 2009

 


Testimonials and References

Imagine CDs did a great job for our Company. They met the time lines and produced excellent results at a very reasonable cost. They are trustworthy, honest and has the highest business ethics.  Top qualities: Good Value, High Integrity, Creative” April 6, 2009
Manmohan Sharma, Columbia Tower Club General Manager Manmohan.Sharma@ourclub.com Manmohan hired Imagine CDs in 2006, 2007 and 2008

Imagine CDs provides great vision and extremely detailed and creative ideas. I have enjoyed collaborating with them on several different projects, and always learn a great deal when I do. Their attention to detail and high integrity makes me feel very comfortable in collaborating with them on just about anything. Top qualities: Great Results, High Integrity, Creative” May 5, 2009
Julien Recoussine (client) recoussine@gmail.com  206.954.6354  

Imagine CDs' innovative CD technology is an excellent permission based advertising medium. It is the perfect branded give away for any promotional event providing added value by adding up to 10 tracks of music to suit your target audience. I had the pleasure of working with Imagine CDs on the Columbia Tower Club’s 5th annual casino night for charity and my clients were very happy with the exposure they received.” April 28, 2008
Steven Paul Matsumoto, Principal, Azimuth Marketing smatsumoto@azimuthbranding.com 206.818.9648

"I just wanted to write and say thank you for everything you did and all of your help with our event! Your collaboration, experience (and great ideas!) helped make the day that much more memorable. Thanks so much!” February 5th, 2009
Melissa Herbert, Member Relations Coordinator, Columbia Tower Club Melissa.Herbert@ourclub.com

 

July 1, 2009
To:  Washington State Destination Marketing Organizations
From:  Amy Spain, Executive Director, Snohomish County Tourism Bureau
Date:  July 1, 2009
Subject: Referral  - ImagineCDs.com

To my colleagues around Washington State,

I have had the pleasure of working with Tolga Ural, Imagine CDs.com, to create a new meeting facilities guide and packaged travel guide for the Snohomish County Tourism Bureau.  As we developed our board goals for 2009, one of the objectives focused on using cutting edge technology as a marketing tool to increase tourism to Snohomish County. 

Printed pieces are out-of-date practically from the moment you print them.  While many companies still use and rely on printed pieces, we found that more and more of our event planners and packaged travel companies were gravitating to electronic media for their searches and planning purposes.  While at trade shows, we would present both CD’s and printed guides and found that we brought back the printed guides and the CD’s were gradually becoming the media of choice.

Enter ImagineCDs.com.  I met with Tolga last year and that meeting planted the seed of change.  His patent-pending technology allows for a user-friendly experience for the event planner, and an updateable collateral piece for the Snohomish County Tourism Bureau that does not require ‘throwing out the old’ piece; saving money, providing updated information to the event planner without a new print run, and was a green initiative.  This does not replace our online presence, but augments it.  We will launch this new CD at the upcoming Meeting Professionals International Western Education Conference in early July.   I would be happy to discuss my experience working with Tolga with any of my colleagues.  Please feel free to contact me.

Best regards,

Amy Spain
Executive Director
Snohomish County Tourism Bureau
(425)348-5802, extension 11
(888)338-0976
amy@snohomish.org
www.snohomish.org


How will this Benefit Your Organization?  Our clients partner with us to increase their productivity, save time, increase revenues and provide improved service to their charities by maximizing event attendance, sponsorships and auctions. 

In order for us to make best use of your time, please take a moment to review the below 'out-of-the-box' considerations to see how big of an opportunity we have to share the same benefits with you!

Q1: How many separate/unique mailers and invitations does your organization produce? (eg: application packets, event invitations, sponsorship/donation requests, brochures, etc)
one     two    three    more than three 

Q2: How many copies of these separate/unique pieces do you print in total, cumulatively, over a year?
1,000 to 10,000    10,001 to 25,000   25,001 to 50,000   50,001 to 100,000    over 100,000

Q3: Understanding that you may be printing various amounts of different publications, how much would you stand to save if you could print/combine some or all them all for the price of one?
save 50% (combine 2 publications)  save 67% (combine 3)  save 75% (combine 4)  other:

Q4: Once you decide to update or re-issue your printed publication, how much time does it take before it's in the hands of your community and the intended target audience?
months    weeks     days    seconds

Q5: How do you accommodate a sponsor/donor/advertiser if they miss the print production deadline?
re-issue an updated publication     have them miss the upcoming issue and wait until the next print cycle

Q6: How do you deal with print correction/edit/update requests from your sponsor/donor/advertisers, or those of your own? How do you handle removals due to business closure or payment default?
re-issue an updated/corrected publication     wait until the next print cycle to add/remove/update at that time

Q7: How often can you accept new sponsor/donor/advertiser to appear in your current publications?
yearly    monthly    anytime I want    we don't   

Q8: Do you have a page number, size, or weight constraint, owing to printing restrictions and/or postage fee worries?
yes    no      If yes, what is it?

Q9: How much control would you prefer to have over your publishing while minimizing dependence on contractors?
ok as is    would prefer to maximize control and be more independent of print houses, distributors, others

Q10: If money was no object, how much more content and/or advertisement would you consider adding over time?
as much as I choose to, in line with client demand and revenue opportunity    none   

Q11: If money and time were no object, how often would you edit/update your publications over a given year?
every couple of months    monthly, maybe more     weekly, maybe more    as needed     never 

Q12: How much do your separate/unique pieces cumulatively weigh when mailed all together?  ounces
How much money do you invest in mailing and postage for one-off mailers and bulk mailing of your printed publications?  $US /year. If you could reduce/avoid these costs, would you consider re-investing them in publishing more mailers/invitations? yes     no   

Q13: Is going green, reducing your organization's carbon footprint, and reducing unnecessary paper usage a consideration in your community's eyes?
yes     no   

Q14: How happy are you with your ability to track/trace each and every website visit, email and phone call your printed publications generate for you and your community of participants and sponsor/donor/advertisers?
completely happy - we track everything    could be happier - would like to track more   

Q15: Please describe what you enjoy the least about your print publications. What other constraints and difficulties are you faced with?  If you had a magic wand, what would you like help on, do more of, less of, or differently?
When would you like us to contact you to address any questions and to provide further information?  Please share your contact information below (name, email, phone, organization) along with any day/time preferences for us to get in touch and we will gladly follow up:
  

Thank you for your submission! 

Go Beyond Traditional Marketing!  Enhance your marketing message with measurable effect and proven end-results! Please call us for a complimentary analysis today at 1-800-605-1782  or email us at cleversolutions@imaginecds.com


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