Meyer Imports

New & Reduced Shipping Rates

From our Mailbag:
(a real email from a real customer)

Dear Meyer Imports,

I have a few friends/colleagues that have slowed or ceased shopping on your site, due to the prohibitive shipping charges.

It seems that you are revamping your site and working on getting things in place, and I thought that you may find this information helpful.

I appreciate the range of unique products that you carry, and I look forward to future improvements on your site.

Warm Regards,  ~customer~

You are right that we are still trying to tweak our site to be the right offer for all our customers.

Based on your input, we just reduced our shipping rates (across the board) and posted a message on our homepage of the change.

So your email really made an impact on me! Customers will now see that we have reduced our shipping rates across the board and tried to adjust our rates to better fit for dealers who order miniatures (light and cheap to mail) to Glitter (heavy and expensive to mail).  But, no matter what you order, the shipping rates will be much lower.

But, we know this has to work for almost everyone or it will not work at all.  Let me know your comments to this and maybe help spread the word that we do listen and will react that would be a great help!

For those you are interested: Here is our shipping table to US Domestic packages:

If your order is (or less than)<then> your shipping will be:

        Order  -  Shipping
        --------------------

$4.95  -  $2.95
$9.95  -  $3.95
$19.95 -  $4.95
$29.95 -  $5.95
$39  -   $6.95
$49  -   $7.95
$59  -   $8.95
$99  -   $9.95
$129 -  $10.95
$149 -  $12.95
$169 -  $14.95
$189 -  $16.95
$209 -  $18.95
$249 -  $20.95
$299 -  $24.95
$349 -  $28.95
$399 -  $32.95
$449 -  $36.95
$499 -  $44.95
$599 -  $48.75
$1000 - $55.75

Promotional Opportunities with Meyer Imports

This message is for the Meyer Imports Wholesale Accounts to offer you an opportunity to list your website (or Etsy site), Store or Product Line in our Retailer Directory. This is free service to help grow the business for all of us!

With the launch of the new website, we have really increased our outbound marketing and are now receiving thousands of clicks per week to our blog and online store. We would like to leverage this traffic to promote our retailers and designers and help drive more sales to your business.

Here are a few free promotional opportunities we would like to offer you!  

1) Dealer Directory: If you want to get listed in our website dealer directory, please send the following information to us:

• Name of Store:
  
• Contact Info:
  
• Address: (If you have a physical store)
  
• Retailers: General Description of store:
  
• Designers: General Description of Product Line:
  
• Website address:
  
• Blog Address:  
  

The Meyer Imports Dealer Directory will be completely redone by December, I want to be able to include your information in our new directory service!  

2) Meyer Imports Blog: If you would like a write up in our blog, or have us link to your blog, please send a couple of pictures and a short write up on your store / website.  

3) Tutorials: If you want to submit a tutorial featuring your designs, featuring our products, we would be happy to do a complete write on our blog.  

4) Blog Photos: We also also always looking for product photos of your creations that we can feature on our blog.  

Please feel free to share your thoughts on how we could not only be a stellar supplier, but also a business partner that is helping to generate sales, as well as provide great products to help fuel your business.  

If you want to be included in this opportunity, please submit your information by 11/19, so I can rebuild the Dealer Directory pages during the Thanksgiving break!

Information for our blog can be submitted at anytime!

[email protected]

 

Imported Miniatures and Vintage Supplies

 

Meyer Imports

Dealers Welcome!

www.meyer-imports.com

Blog: http://meyer-imports.typepad.com/

Project Files: it's all about Glitter Snowflakes!

This wonderful Glitter Tutorial is from a guest and friend of ours "Pine". Check out her wonderful projects and blog at Pine is Here by clicking here.

I like glitter just a little - okay, a lot - and I know there are more of you out there who feel the same way. I am completely tempted by anything glittery - glitter cards, glitter scrapbook papers, glitter brads, etc. Glitter just adds that perfect touch to so many projects. It is a staple supply that I keep on my desk and bring with me when I stamp with friends. Of course, when you use it on your projects you will end up covered in it or at least have a little bit of sparkle for the rest of the day... but to me that is a bonus. I don't mind at all! There are so many ways to add glitter to your hand stamped projects and with the holidays and snow (nature's glitter!) coming soon I thought it would be fun to share a few glittery techniques!

Project Files: Glittery Snowflake Cards

You know I love to stamp with paint and did you know that it is a great adhesive to stick glitter to? Here I stamped a polka dot background with white acrylic paint...

 

and then while the paint is still wet, sprinkle glitter right over the top of it. The glitter will stick right to the wet paint. Let the paint dry completely before using it on your project.

For the glitters that I use most often, I transfer them into bigger plastic containers. Then, I can either just dip the piece that I am working on right into the glitter or for the pieces to big for the container (like this one) I use a spoon to sprinkle the glitter onto my project.

 

Next I wanted to create some glittery snowflakes images for the main image of my projects. I stamped  snowflakes from my Rustic Snowflakes set to glitter. You will want to choose something of a fairly simple design.If there is too much detail it will get lost when you add the glitter. There are a couple of ways you can adhere the glitter: stamp the images in Versamark and emboss with a heat & stick powder to stick the glitter to (which is what I did here) or stamp your images with glue or a glue pad and sprinkle the glitter right over that.

 

Not only can you glitter just your images with the heat & stick powder, you can do an all over glitter look. After I stamped my images onto the cardstock, I covered the entire piece with Versamark ink.

 

After embossing with the heat & stick powder, I sprinkled the glitter right over the whole thing.

Here's the whole glittery piece! Make sure that when you have added the glitter, that you go back and heat your piece just a little bit more. That will set the glitter into the heat & stick powder.

 

I added more glitter to the edge of this snowflake piece by running a glue pen around the edge and sprinkling glitter over that.

Here are the cards that I put together with all the glittery parts that I created!

I can think of so many ways to add some sparkle to your projects in addition to the few that I shared here. Some of them include: mixing glitter right into your paint, sprinkle glitter onto embossing powder while you are heating it, using stickles on your projects, glitter pens and markers, adhering glitter to clear tape to create a glittery transparency, etc.

 

Glittery Snowflake Cards

Glitter

Stamps: Rustic Snowflakes, Polka Dot Basics (Papertrey Ink)

ink: Spring Moss, Aqua Mist (Papertrey Ink), Versamark ink (Tsukineko), Jet Black Archival (Ranger), white pigment

cardstock: white, Spring Moss, Aqua Mist (Papertrey Ink)

accessories: Aqua Mist stitched ribbon (Papertrey Ink), 1 1/4" square punch (EK Success), white acrylic paint, buttons, linen thread, dimensionals

Weekly Specials!

Improving our service to you....

Over the last few months we have really been working hard to grow the business, rebuild our website, launch our wholesale dealer portal, rollout our retail "Doris Dotz DIY" kits and restock our shelf with Glitter and other goodies.

One of things we still need to improve is our customer service. We realize that we need to  provide the level of follow up and support our customers deserve and expect.  The purpose of this post is to make sure you know your concerns are really important to us, and while we will always be a little bit "old school" in how we take, process and fulfill your orders, we are really trying to improve your shopping experience with us across the board.

So, here are a few things we are doing to make your ordering process smoother, first, we have hired some more help to allow our more seasoned team the time required to better manage incoming questions and potential problems. We have also completely updated our shipping system so that emails are being sent with "almost all"  packages (with tracking numbers) as soon as they ship. We also put into place a new system  to help us respond to all emails within 24 hours. Are we meeting this goal? We are getting better and are trying hard to make this goal!

Here is how you can help, when you have a question, or problem, please feel free to contact us, by phone, by email, or even stop by if you are town! Also, you can get me directly @ [email protected] (but I probably the worse offender when if comes to follow up. ) - but even I am getting better all the time!

Our main phone number is: 415-209-6939 and we have someone at the phones from 10 to 2PM (PST) on normal workdays (Except Tuesday). Our main email address is: [email protected] - a good one to save for reference!

As an internet base company, we keep fairly irregular hours, with most of the team being in the office during the workweek, and others staying until 1 or 2 in the morning when the spirit moves them. I think in one of those late night work sessions, we came up with one of our latest improvements to ensure our team was also ready to take your call, 25 hours a day, 8 days per week.

Yes, Service is just this important to us!

So, please let us know how we are doing, your ideas and comments really help us better focus our business to meeting your needs. We love to get your comments (good, bad, or great!) and will do all we can to make your purchases from us to be fun, easy, safe and the best experience it can be!