Our human resources services include sourcing and recruiting candidates, designing surveys and assessments, conducting interviews, employee training, and implementation of human resources systems.

CUSTOM EMPLOYEE DISCOUNT PROGRAM
Our targeted employee discount program, easyEDP, is completely free to health care organizations who contract with us to provide them with a highly customized employee discount program for their employees. The program is designed to provide employees with discounts on products and services at a wide range of businesses in their local community.

easyEDP is mutually beneficial to health care organizations, employees, and sponsoring businesses. Health care organizations eliminate the overhead, time, and expense involved with creating an employee discount program internally; employees receive discounts on products and services in their community; and sponsoring businesses get to show their appreciation for health care employees while gaining valuable exposure to one of the most affluent employee populations.

SOURCING, INTERVIEWING, AND RECRUITING
Our search, recruitment and staffing services are specifically designed to reduce your cost per hire while expediting the time it takes to fill your direct and interim job openings. We earn our fee only after a successful hire. If you do not hire anyone from us, you owe us nothing.

Following an initial consultation, we will Search proprietary databases to target the best candidates, Identify, assess and recruit from the most viable industries, Contact and present your opportunity to the candidates, Screen and assess targeted candidates, Rank and select the most qualified candidates, Present the credentials of the selected candidates to you, Coordinate and schedule only the best candidates for interviews, Debrief you and each candidate after the interview, Work closely with you to select the finalists, Conduct reference checks and submit references to you, Facilitate finalist interviews, Negotiate compensation and offer acceptance, and Assist candidates with relocation.

We offer highly effective and affordable co-op direct mail advertising in a high quality, glossy magazine and postcard format. Publications include CSRA Direct Deals, Direct Deals Magazine, and CSRA Living Magazine.

CSRA DIRECT DEALS POSTCARD
The direct mail postcard is a massive 9″ x 12″ postcard printed on 14pt cardstock with a high gloss UV coating. The postcard is professionally designed, colorful, distinctly visible, weather / handling proof, and literally weighs a solid ounce. It’s the largest dimension mail piece that can be sent without being folded for insertion into the mailbox.

We designed the postcard to include eleven to twelve standard ad spaces and three to four large ad spaces. The standard ad spaces are 3.68″ x 2.68″ and large ad spaces are 3.68″ x 4.14″. We may occasionally offer smaller ad spaces of 3.68″ x 1.96″ in place of the large ad spaces. Ads are placed with 1/4″ spacing between each ad for maximum visibility.

DIRECT DEALS MAGAZINE
The direct mail magazine is a high quality 8 3/8″ x 10 7/8″ magazine printed on 60# semi gloss text. The magazine is professionally designed, distinctly visible, durable, and easy to read. The magazine features full page, half page, and quarter page ads with 1/4″ spacing between each ad. Full page ads are available with full bleed.

CSRA LIVING MAGAZINE
High potential customers typically have a high net worth, are more affluent, and are quite simply wealthier than the general population. These high potential customers spend more money on themselves, their homes, and their families. And when they decide to buy, they don’t hesitate to pay more for quality. The vast majority of them own one or more homes and multiple cars. They are twice as likely to buy than lower earning families and typically spend 3.2 times more than the average household in categories like home improvement, travel, investments and personal luxuries.

CSRA Living, our highly targeted direct mail magazine, is delivered to high potential customers in Evans, Martinez, Grovetown, Appling, and Augusta. The magazine targets the top 20% of households, those with an average household income of over $80,000 and property values worth an average of over $230,000.

We have personally and methodically selected the top neighborhoods and mailing routes using my propriety data analysis based on income, property value, and three other key real estate statistics. When you choose to advertise in CSRA Living, you will get direct and exclusive access to the top 20%, the most affluent homeowners in the CSRA. And if you choose to use my design team, we’ll use proven advertising techniques and direct response advertising to get more prospects to call you now, not later.

The high quality magazine format gives you a full page to showcase your products and services, to highlight your features and benefits, and to convince customers to buy from you rather than from your competitors.

ADVERTISING RATES
The postcard and magazine advertising rates are based on the size of the ad and the number of mailings (months) that you sign up for. Design, printing, and mailing is included in the total pricing. Pricing and availability may vary. Contact us for current pricing and availability.

MINIMUM ADVERTISING TERM
Effective direct response advertising is best realized with repetitive exposure to your message. For this reason, we require a minimum 2 to 4 month agreement depending on the publication and zone. We offer preferred rates for 6 and 12 month commitments.

WHY DIRECT MAIL?
Direct mail advertising allows you to get more exposure and visibility for your business but can be expensive and must be done frequently to work effectively. Our advertising programs make direct mail marketing more cost efficient and much more effective when paired with our consulting service. This is why our magazine and postcard advertising programs are so powerful. Properly designed ads using proven advertising strategies helps to ensure your message gets noticed. Our high quality format also creates more visibility for your message to the variety on ads presented on the mail piece.

DISTRIBUTION
The magazine and postcard are distributed to strategically defined ‘smart zones’ in South Carolina (Aiken County, Edgefield County, McCormick County) and Georgia (Columbia County, McDuffie County, Richmond County). Each ‘smart zone’ consists of approximately 20,000 residential and business addresses. Distribution in South Carolina reaches Aiken, Beech Island, Clarks Hill, Graniteville, Jackson, North Augusta, Trenton, and Warrenville. Distribution in Georgia covers Appling, Augusta, Dearing, Evans, Fort Gordon, Grovetown, Harlem, Hephzibah, Martinez, South Augusta, Thomson, and West Augusta. In addition, surplus distribution in South Carolina may reach Barnwell, Bradley, Edgefield, Johnston, McCormick, Modoc, Mount Carmel, Plum Branch, Troy, Williston, and Windsor. Surplus distribution in Georgia may reach Millen, Gibson, Lincolnton, Mitchell, Stapleton, Waynesboro, and Harrison.

We offer consultative services to assess your current advertising and marketing, with an analysis of costs and returns, and implementation and training for improving response, tracking response, and measuring results.

Marketing and Advertising may sound similar and are often used interchangeably, but in reality they are not the same. Advertising is only a part of the bigger game called Marketing. Marketing encompasses complete conceptualization of a brand right from research to designing to advertising to sales. Advertising, on the other hand is a component of the marketing process which is nothing more than conveying the message through a variety of mediums to promote the products or services you offer.

Advertising is one of the most important components of your marketing strategy and can be one of the most expensive as well. Advertising is all too often used to get the word out or stay top of mind. It constitutes sending your message to the public to inform them of your company, products and services. It also requires the formation of various strategies and coming up with a right one to target the right viewers. The strategy consists of planning things such as placing ads, deciding what media to use, what time, frequency etc. The advertisements are generally placed via mediums like television, direct mail, newspapers, internet, emails, radio, magazines, mobile messaging, flyers, billboards etc.

One way to think about advertising and marketing is to consider marketing as a cake. If you cut a slice of cake, advertising would be just one of the slices of that cake. The other pieces of cake are market research of the product, product designing, media planning, PR, product pricing, customer satisfaction, customer support, sales and many more. All these components or slices should work independently but collectively in achieving the bigger goal i.e. to sell product, to build your reputation in the market, etc.

Marketing is a marathon process involving many tasks that involve hours sometimes days of research. The research part of marketing takes the longest duration as it involves thoroughly understanding the behavior of people towards a product. Designing the product and developing advertising strategy is also a time consuming process. Only components that take less time are executing advertisements and sales. Marketing can also be perceived as a medium between consumers and the company.

But many companies often confuse advertising with marketing. They try to model big companies like Coke, Apple, and Nike in advertising but they simply ignore the work that goes behind the scenes. For example, many business owners are overly concerned about the placement and branding of their logo on their advertisements. They think that the brand or logo will simply bring in the sales. But what makes a logo work is the reputation of the company and the brand behind it. The logo must convey a feeling that reflects the company’s values. One should also remember that these big corporations spend fortunes on advertising which a small business simply can’t do. Rather than spending unnecessary money on branding your product or business, you should invest money and time in communicating to the consumers that you can address their expectations. After building a solid reputation and growing into a larger company, you can think of mass market branding and advertising. However, the most effective advertising, even then, will continue to be direct response advertising that explains what you sell, why they should buy it from rather than someone else, and why they should act now. Educating the consumer in this way also helps to provide an understanding of how your company differentiates from your competitor.

Smart marketers are aggressive in advertising to their target market. The take an aggressive approach rather than a passive one. They provoke reader’s minds by prompting them to do something rather than just making them knowledgeable of the product. Smart marketers also leverage multiple channels of advertising to build an effective marketing mix. The goal of advertising is not to simply stay top of mind or to get your name out there, it’s to drive sales and increase revenue.

Whether you are looking to sell a problem property, pay down your mortgage or other debts faster, or just want to learn how to invest in real estate, we can help. We offer real estate investing education as well as real estate sales services.

EDUCATION
Our real estate education was designed to provide an affordable, efficient and convenient method for learning how to build financial wealth through real estate investing. Our courses teach everything from credit and debt management to tax strategies to creative real estate acquisition and exit strategies. Our courses provide the flexibility to learn in several ways, from on demand online video training to audio courses for leaning on the go to live classroom training whenever courses are updated and and filmed in our studio.

Is Direcmark a franchise or locally owned business?
Direcmark is a locally owned business (not a franchise) providing human resources, marketing, and real estate solutions.

Do you offer standalone print and mailing services?
Yes, for our advertisers on a case by case basis. We can handle your solo mailings and print needs. Our prices are very competitive, especially for larger print orders, business cards, flyers, and postcards. Contact us for a custom quote or send us your print estimates for best pricing.