The Next Investment

After finding myself on my last few bubble mailers, I finally decided that I had to pony up and buy some boxes. I've been buying the bubble mailers at an office supply store, one 12-pack at a time. I just figured out the price per mailer for the first time, and I am nauseated...$1.42! Further confirmation that boxes must be purchased from now on. And anyway, I prefer the look of shipping things out in boxes.

I looked around at a number of shipping supply websites, and the problem I had was that most had a high minimum order or the prices were too high, or some combination thereof. Finally, though, I stumbled across AM Shipping Supplies. They don't have minimum orders, and they manually calculate the shipping on each order so it's very accurate. I found the boxes I needed for just 24 cents apiece, and the shipping (FedEx, estimated to be about 2-3 days) was very reasonable too at a little more than $14. So now I'll be shipping my items out in nice new boxes that each cost me 39 cents rather than those ridiculous bubble mailers. I may even be able to lower my shipping prices (although I have to weigh things in these boxes, the weight may even things out).

I normally have trouble bringing myself to spend money on things like this (see the post about ordering my business cards), but this was easier, probably because it's such a great deal.

"Real" business cards...finally!

I started out printing my own business cards. There's nothing wrong with that...except the price. Not only is printer ink expensive, but the perforated cardstock is absolutely ridiculous! So I looked around the internet and weighed my options. I finally settled on GotPrint. I ordered 1,500 cards altogether; 1,000 are business cards, and the other 500 I designed so that I could cut each one in half to make hangtags (it worked perfectly and this will be the subject of a future post). The 1,000 business cards are two-sided full-color glossy, and cost a mere $15.99! So, here they are: