PostcardMania

Clearwater, United States

2.3

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20 reviews

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Telephone:
+1 727-441-4704
Website:
www.postcardmania.com
Address:
2145 Sunnydale Blvd, Clearwater, FL, 33765
Clearwater
Nearby public transportation stops & stations:
720 ft"BELCHER RD N & SUNNYDALE BLVD N"
940 ft"BELCHER RD N & MANOR BLVD N"
0.2 mi"SUNSET POINT RD & BECKETT LAKE DR"
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Today 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Closed now
Local time (Clearwater) 22:58 Friday, 29 November 2024

Business hours

Monday 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Tuesday 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Wednesday 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Thursday 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Friday 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
Saturday –
Sunday –

Description

Specialties

PostcardMania is a fully integrated marketing company focused on helping small and medium-​sized businesses easily implement start-​to-​finish marketing campaigns that are based on the successful actions of our 64,347 clients.

By providing real campaigns and their results from other clients, our mission is to help small businesses increase revenue and grow while eliminating the costly and time-​consuming marketing guessing game.

Our services include (but so are not limited to)…

— Marketing Planning & Strategy

— Direct Mail for Lead Generation

— Google Pay-​Per-​Click Management for Lead Generation & Follow-​up

— Mailing List Acquisition

— Full In-​House Mailing Services

— Website Development

— Custom Landing Pages

— Email Marketing Services

— DirectMail2.0: Our Own Custom Marketing Program Revolutionizing Lead Generation & Follow-​Up

History

Established in 1998.

Founder and CEO Joy Gendusa started PostcardMania in 1998 with nothing but a phone, a computer and zero investment capital. Within a decade, Joy had grown PostcardMania from a one-​woman startup into a booming $ 10million industry leader ranked among the Inc. 500 — and she did it by advertising her business almost exclusively through postcards.

Today, PostcardMania has expanded its services beyond just postcard marketing to offer website development, graphic design, online advertising management, email marketing and more in addition to being a one-​stop shop, fully turnkey solution for direct mail marketing.

PostcardMania employs over 200 people in the Clearwater area, earning over $ 22 million annually. Every week, PostcardMania prints an estimated 4 million postcards and mails an additional 2 million. PostcardMania has won many awards for creativity, best business practices and expansion, and has been featured on the Inc. 500 and 5000 lists several times.

Meet the Business Owner

Joy G.

Business Owner

Joy is the CEO, owner and founder of PostcardMania. She started her company in 1998 out of her home with just a phone and a computer. She built PostcardMania from $ 0 — $ 19 million in just under 10 years without taking a dime of investment capital.

Joy marketed her business with the use of direct mail postcards, the exact same product she sold to her clients!

Besides being a successful business owner/​entrepreneur, Joy loves to help others gain similar success. On the business side, Joy has created hundreds articles and content-​rich tools with tips and advice on successful marketing (all for free), she also created a division within PostcardMania that solely handles pro bono donations for non-​profit organizations all over the country.

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20 reviews of PostcardMania

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Place rating: 1
Stamford, CT
These people should have been paying me b/​c I did all the work. My job was a bit complicated b/​c I wanted to change some information on my postcard each month, but after 6 weeks (!) of trying to get their act together unsuccessfully, I had to cancel my project and walk away. I signed up for a very large job at a very large cost and they just couldn’t make it happen. One department had no idea what the other department was doing. Constantly send me wrong information — wrong pricing, wrong shipping costs, even wrong postcards! Don’t waste your time — very frustrating.
Place rating: 1
Seattle, WA
bait and switch pricing.
the worst attention to detail and service ever experienced.
scam artists.
do not give them your business, their reviews on their website are old and some are not even real.
you will regret speding a dime with them and they refuse to solve issues.
Place rating: 1
Torrance, CA
Ordered a mail list, did not get addresses from the area requested. Did not hear back from the the company after complaining. Poor customer service.
Place rating: 1
Union, NJ
I made a bad decision when I called this company to send me mail addresses for my business. It was also a pity that I didn’t’ read the reviews. I asked for mail addresses to send some postcards to my students, families with children from 4 to 12 years old, and I asked to distribute them in three different towns. I started sending cards in my town and I found families with no kids or kids that were not in this age range, which turned out to be more than 20%. I immediately complained but they told me that this was totally normal. It’s normal if i don’t have to spend money to send the card, but I did. I was afraid to send cards to the other towns because I don’t know anybody and it was probably more than 20% composed of families with no children. Stamps would have cost me $ 1000.
I’ m very disappointed with this company.
Place rating: 1
Burlingame, CA
Notice notice this company is not who it seems to be. They are very deceptive in their advertising. I spent thousands of dollars on a campaign and got zero results. Once they receive your money. The customer service stops. They sold me a $ 500 option to show where your phone calls and Internet results came from. Once I realized I had no results. I phoned Mike at postcard mania headquarters and told him I felt I was entitled to a $ 500 refund as there were no results. He said he could not refund the amount and now three months later they stole hundred and $ 51 out of my personal checking account. When I called them yesterday. Mike said he would return it and never again stealing the money from my account as of today, however it has not returned to my account. I phoned him and told him if I did not receive that credit to my account by tomorrow, there would be consequences. This company is not to be trusted and I recommend anyone reading this compare their website reviews to the real reviews on Unilocal and stay away from this company. Their bad news
Place rating: 2
Buda, TX
What a bad decision and a revenue killing decision. On September 26th 2015 I paid them extra to expedite my post cards so they would be out by October 1st 2015. They promised to have them out. It is now October 29th 2015 and they still have not been mailed. All I get are bills and to top it off they are always more than quoted. I have had 6 different people work on my marketing campaign. To throw salt in the wound they have an exploration date that is only 30 days away instead of 60. All in all they are trying to charge me 20 percent more than their quote. I would say to make sure you get a contract before the work is performed, but there are to many companies that do what they do that can be trusted. Bad thing is I’m forced to conclude my business with them to get my cards out. I wish I had read the reviews before I used them.
Place rating: 1
Houston, TX
So I referred a friend to PCM and talk about getting the run-​around. He was setting up a marketing campaign as a Realtor and needed a postcard design along with 6 months of mailouts. The design team took two weeks to get a proof back to him and when it showed up it looked like something my neighbor’s two-​year old could have done at lunch in between spoonfuls of strained peas. NOT GOOD.
This is on top of the fact that the sales rep assigned to him moved to another department — though the first time I was told she left the company. My friend got bounced to several different reps before finally giving up and requesting a refund.
It’s like the folks at PCM are living in a whole other world — maybe Joy Gendusa sold out to a new company and they’re suffering through the turnover? Either way, I’ll never recommend them again and I’ve already taken my business elsewhere.
Place rating: 1
Tustin, CA
Wish I had checked the reviews here, just went with what I saw on their website and am also a repeat customer, when they were Rocket Print and Mail, their service was excellent but now I would not recommend it to anyone, Wasted $ 6000 on my postcard campaign, got 5 calls only off of 5000 mailers, they desgined my website too, but later said they could not transfer it to YAHOO, a total disappointment.
Place rating: 1
Los Angeles, CA
We used their service to print 1000 postcard for our new office and mail it for us and I am very disappointed by this experience. Designing the postcards was a disaster and at the end I redesigned the postcard completely by myself. Then the postcards that were sent to our patients ALL defective in their print. One of them is even torn and they have taped it. The worst first impression ever. And now they do not respond to this failure. So unprofessional!!!
Place rating: 1
Milwaukee, WI
I’m very disappointed by this experience and the ‘hidden’ fees.
Postcardmania should be clear on the cost of the marketing campaign and the forefront rather than not including the postage in the rate they claim is the ‘mailed’ rate – this is deceptive business practices. Additionally, to be called yesterday and told that in order to make my postcard look like the one I originally ordered, it would be another upcharge for the paper. The icing on the cake is the $ 100 charge for ‘designing’ which I personally think is ridiculous – my postcard was the most basic postcard one could get – it was text on yellow paper – no pictures or anything.
This campaign cost twice as much as I originally anticipated and had I known of all these charges up front, I could’ve gone to your competitors… at least 3 different sources who, for the same postcard and including postage would’ve done this job for $ 1000-​$ 1200. Because of this situation, we went over budget and my business was forced to do one less marketing campaign this month and in turn, we will be generating less revenue.
I am wary of businesses like this that do not provide the upfront costs and throughout the process the customer is receiving different extra or upcharges. I think understanding that companies work within a budget and when someone begins a campaign, you need to make it clear the TOTAL costs from the beginning.
Place rating: 1
Pittsburgh, PA
This is the second mailing I have done with Postcard Mania, the first went seamlessly which I had only spent $ 2500 and had a lot of success. This second one has been anything but! I am spending close to $ 7000 and it has been a disaster from start to finish!
1. As a returning customer I had to create another customer profile.
2. The girl (Haley) handling my order would never update my order appropriately and then expect me to hit «Approve.» Delaying my postcards by 2 weeks. Time is money
3. I had another project I had ordered along with the first one, that wasn’t approved and sent out to me because no one explained to me that I needed to approve that one as well that it wasn’t part of the same job, so I waited for a week for the extra cards to come in and finally had to call to find out where they were.
4. The staff member who then took over my second round of cards after I explained the ordeal (Marcus), assured me that it would all be taken care of. Well he said that he would call me on a certain day, didn’t because he was «sick,» I had to remind him to call me, then passed the matter on to another staff member (Josh) who said he would handle things and didn’t do it within the time frame he had given me, pushing my second mailing back a full week. Then Marcus got back to me and made me feel like he was doing me a favor by refunding me a tiny bit of money for all of my troubles with them and the compensation that he offered wasn’t nearly worth the problems they had caused for me. After all if I am paying a company $ 7000 I expect it to be right and go off without a hitch and to be given back $ 38 plus another $ 100 for my troubles and made to feel like it’s going out his way… I am taking my business else where, where I will feel valued.
Find another direct marketing company. This one is not worth it.
Place rating: 5
Clearwater, FL
A couple of years ago, I helped organize a charitable event to increase the awareness about the large human trafficking problem we have in Florida.
The staff here were very helpful in setting up, coordinating and running our small but vital campaign.
Over the years, I have invested a lot of my own time and resources into charitable projects. I can assure you that this one ran smoother than most and a large portion of the credit must go to this company for all the help and support they provided.
Putting forth information that is important to every citizen in a coherent and understandable way is not simple, yet they pulled it off without effort.
I highly recommend this company and their services to anyone in need of professional marketing help.
Place rating: 5
Clearwater, FL
They do letter mailings for my financial company. It is really helpful because they print, address, stuff and mail for us. Saves us a ton of time and hassle. The best part is that because of the presort postage rates that they get, it pretty much offsets the cost of paying them to do it. So we get them to do it instead of us for the same cost.
I would recommend them to other business owners. Process was a bit cumbersome at first because of having to fill out the mailing form but once we got rolling it was easy every month. All of the staff I dealt with were really nice and helpful.
Place rating: 5
San Francisco, CA
They made these unbelievable postcards for an art showing I had. Their designers created a very impactful card that communicate exactly what I wanted and much much more. I couldn’t have thought up half the things they did. If you need great quick service for postcards another mailing campaigns they are definitely the place to go to!!!
Place rating: 5
LADERA RANCH, CA
We have been using postcard mania for our direct mail pieces and they have been great. They follow up and actually do what they promise. Their prices are right in line with everyone else, so our decision to use them is based on customer service and turn times. We will definitely continue to use them!
Place rating: 1
New York, NY
Worst Customer Service!
The first few weeks the rep hounded me with phone calls, trying to get my partner and I to work with them. Once we decided to do so, she was unreachable leaving us to deal with different reps all the time. Worked a few weeks back and forth with them trying to charge us $$$$ for various reasons after having zeroed in on a figure in the first place. Finally when we decided cancel the service, the rep MARCUS was rude and demanded to charge a cancellation fee and also had the nerve to cuss us out!
A big mistake committing to them before reading the reviews on here! We better have our refund back, if not this is going to be a big mess!
Place rating: 5
Glen Gardner, NJ
I’ve used them for the company I work for many times. Their service is great, and the editing process is quick with talented graphic designers. At first, we purchased lists from them. As we became introduced to Every Door Direct Mail, they did too, and our last two mailers we used them for the design and print, and we sorted and shipped them ourselves to cut back on costs. We’ve had big responses from the mailers they’ve helped us with, and we will continue to use them in the future.
Place rating: 5
Charlotte, NC
I have been working with Post card mania for over a year now and I LOVE the customer service they provide! Always helping me understand and gives me great details on the products. We are signing back up with them to do mailers for our customers during the busiest time of the year, tax time! We had a GREAT out come last time! I recommend them to any company trying to get more sales or traffic!
Place rating: 1
Manhattan, NY
We have been talking with a rep via email for a few weeks regarding postcards and a short SEO Campaign. At first, he was diligent and answered the many questions we had about the 6-​week postcard mailings.
And then 3 – 4 weeks into our conversation, he mentioned a small package that included a short SEO Campaign that will give us much-​needed stats and numbers about the effectiveness of our postcard mailings and website visits. It all seemed believable, and we were about to agree to sign this $ 4,000-$ 10,000 contract with PostcardMania when the rep all of sudden asked for a credit card…
We did not give him the okay.
We did not say we would sign a contract. We did not agree to continue the project with him, when all of a sudden he insists that he needs a credit card to continue with the emails/​conversation and to draft a contract.
The rep didn’t even give us a concrete number! He wavered within a long range from $ 4,000 to $ 10,000, depending on postage, add-​ons, and the works.
Absurdity.
Shortly after the incident, I went to Unilocal and looked at their reviews. Lo and behold, 2.5 stars with plenty of 1 star reviews complaining about their scams.
Stay away!
Place rating: 1
Vancouver, WA
Yeah they’re very friendly throughout, lending confidence to your decision, but ultimately they don’t care once they get your money. And once they got ours, they wanted more.
Supposedly $ 2,300 would handle our situation, but no, to go along with your postcards, now you need a landing page on your website. And of course that costs more, but no worries, they’ll take care of that for you too — at a price. Ultimately the original small job turns out to be inefficient., twice as much as originally agreed upon.
Again no worries, they’ll give you your money back. Yeah right!
After talking to Marcus in Accounting who promises everything, he doesn’t answer the phone a month later when the rebate doesn’t come. He passes it off to Will who is also initially very promising, but ultimately doesn’t deliver.
So after three months with our money, the fact that we are clear across the country with no way to insure that they do what they promise, makes no difference to the, because «hey they got the money!»
Don’t send them any money. You’ll never see it again. ..