From the SU website:  If you recruited someone in July, and want to redeem your FREE CHRISTMAS BOX KIT, please follow the instructions below to get your FREE KIT: Use the following item numbers to order your project kit with your first demonstrator order in August: Item Description 127255 Christmas Keepsake Box Project Kit (English) 127256 Christmas Keepsake Box Project Kit (Spanish) 127257 Christmas Keepsake Box Project Kit (French) Please… Read More »

Hi Stampers  Before I go into today's card, I wanted to tell you about this month's exciting promotion!  During August, your will get a FREE package of Designer Series Paper when you buy three!  Now is the time to stock up on all your favorites, including brand-new designs from the 2011-2012 Idea Book & Catalog.  Excludes the Specialty DSP – sorry! I'm stocking up!  How about you?   Find a Designer… Read More »

Hi Stampers! The state of Arkansas is having a sales tax holiday for school supplies from August 6-7. Because school supply items are included in this sales tax holiday, the below list of items will be state tax free during the holiday period. Please note that you must place your order with Stampin' Up! during the tax holiday period in order to receive these items tax free. Also, keep in… Read More »

Please welcome the below members to our team: Cindy Sellers Tena Hill Deena Clevenger (re signed up) Stephanie Bradford

  Today'sGuest Stamper is Monica Martinez.  Monica is part of my downline (The Ink Abouts), is my sister and lives in California (Ventura County).   Please visit her blog at Monica's Place and see her fantastic work.  Don't forget if I use your card on Sunday's Guest spot, you earn $5.00 Brumley Bucks.  You can redeem them now or at the end of the year (June 30). ~~Rachel

From SU website   July 29, 2011 Some of you have expressed concern with the Holiday Mini being sent in your first demonstrator order, and we wanted to explain our reasons behind this change. Please be assured that our primary concern is providing you with excellent service. In the past, we've received feedback that the bulk mail delivery system has not worked well. Unfortunately, because of its unreliability, some demonstrators got… Read More »

Most stamping business owners go about the opposite way it should be gone about.  Booking workshops starts with identifying target audiences who want to have a workshop.  Then, you have to get in front of that target audience and effectively convey the benefits of having the workshop.  But it starts with finding an audience predisposed to having the workshop.  Too many times, Demos just try to sell customers on the… Read More »

From John SanPietro:  I'm often asked what is the biggest marketing mistake business owners make? Is it that they're marketing to the wrong audience… or is it that they're marketing the wrong part of their business? Is it that they're saying the wrong thing in their marketing pieces… or they're not putting out the most effective marketing piece they can? While all of the above are valid and widespread problems… Read More »

A couple of you asked me where I had ordered the graphics I had on my car.    Here's the link: http://www.vinyldisorder.com/ ~~Rachel

Hello everyone! From Our Hearts, is an organization which collects and sends hand-made Greeting Cards cards to deployed military personnel. They in turn, use the cards to keep in touch with their family and loved ones back home. Over the past couple of years, this organization has grown from sending out a few boxes of cards each year to sending shipments every 4-6 weeks to more than 40 chaplains in Iraq and… Read More »