Manufacturer Coupon Clearing

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If you can answer yes to any of these questions below, perhaps you should be talking to MRM

-          Have you seen the cost of your coupon clearing process rise recently?

-          Do you currently have to pay for your coupon reporting and would you like the information reported in real time?

-          Is it difficult to reconcile your invoicing against reports and do you find your coupon clearing house inflexible with your billing and invoicing arrangements?

MRM is an established independent company offering more than15 years of coupon management experience. We are centrally located in the Midlands and we work with many blue chip manufacturers and retailers within couponing and the wider scope of marketing services. We are competitively priced and our entire coupon clearing is done onsite here in Leicestershire.

We believe that our people and our technology are the core of our business. We have an experienced and forward thinking team managing the company, whom provide a professional and consultative approach to your couponing activity. This coupled with a reputation for pioneering new models of operations and technology, has helped us to achieve a considerable share of the coupon clearing market.

We understand that you need to know how each individual coupon campaign is performing against budget. Our online system, called Couponline 3 provides FREE real-time desktop access to your redemption information, marketing and financial reporting. It can also generate barcodes and provide an estimate coupon redemption budget. Other companies may charge for this service but with MRM this strategic marketing tool is a secure and FREE add on to your coupon clearing service.

If you would like to conduct a competitive review of your coupon clearing operation, just call this number and we can do the rest. Please contact us by email or call 0844 99 12345 and ask for Peter or Mel.

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Point of Sale Management and Despatch

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At Multi Resource Marketing, we have large storage facilities with capabilities to pick, pack and collate items that are a variety of shapes and sizes. Our 100,000 square foot operational and warehousing area holds thousands of stock lines. We can store and assemble sales literature, small displays, right through to large exhibition stands.

MRM can work to time sensitive deadlines, tailor our service to your specific requirements and we are competitively priced as an outsourced solution.

MRM can take the hassle away by setting up a simple POS online ordering solution and store all your material to send out as and when required.

Is this service of interest to you? If so, do you have any current requirements that you would like us to quote for? We would love to be able to demonstrate the benefits of using MRM.

Contact us now for a competitive quote ~ we look forward to hearing from you.

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Fulfilment services – ensuring resilience and stability

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Earlier this year, MRM’s IT Department started investigating options for upgrading our Internet connection.  After months of research and negotiations, we opted for a solution offered by Redstone Managed Solutions (RMS) that delivers:

  • A primary Internet connection through a 10Mbps Ethernet line
  • A secondary Internet connection through a 2Mbps SDSL line
  • Mirrored firewalls configured for high availability

 Although this solution does not allow us to use both lines concurrently, it does mean that if the primary Internet connection fails then the secondary connection will be automatically activated without any manual intervention or change to IP address.

The change to our external connection also gave us the opportunity to make some changes to our internal local area network (LAN) that our old firewall prevented us from doing.  This allows us to segregate our network traffic across virtual LANs in order to better manage performance and security.

As part of MRM’s investment in technology and business continuity, we believe that the long-term improvement in performance, resilience and security of our network delivers stability and demonstrates our commitment to business as usual for clients.

With the majority of our clients accessing reporting via our client portals it is critical that our systems are resilient, as we work with a range of clients from government departments through to FMCG brands, utility companies, non-departmental public bodies and agencies. As some of our clients use our services across the globe we must ensure the availability of order entry and live reporting, no matter what the time of day (or night).

To learn more about how your brand can enjoy live reporting at the touch of a button as part of our services – call Mel now on 0845 2011974 for an informal chat or send us an email with your needs.

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Promotional handling in 2011

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We’re just back after the New Year and already regular sales promotion agencies and FMCG brands are getting in contact to plan in their 2011 activity with MRM, the preferred supplier to UK brands and promotional marketing agencies.

Here in the Commercial team at MRM, we’re really excited about what 2011 will bring for us – we’ve got a strong team with many years of expertise in promotional marketing and relationship management and we’re planning to focus on these to develop our clients and deliver further advances in technology.

To keep in touch with us (even if you’re not yet an MRM client) – get in touch and we’ll put you on our mailing list! You can also follow us on Twitter @MRM_Ltd or even just pick up the phone and have a chat.

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Fulfilment is…Turkey Curry

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No, no, NO! We’ve eaten enough pork pie and Stilton (well this IS Leicestershire) for one year, and now it’s almost time to say hello to the next…

It’s a funny old time between Xmas and the New Year. We’re hardly sitting idle though and we’re here today packing & despatching those all-important orders placed over the Xmas bank holiday.  We’re confident they’ll arrive on time too as the snow is beginning to thaw and the transport system is back on track. 

Here’s hoping you have a very Happy New Year..and if you’d like to start off the New Year on a positive note, why not give us a call to discuss your fulfilment needs for the coming year!

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Fulfilment services of final despatches for Christmas

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Well it’s finally Christmas Eve. I don’t know about everyone else but this week seems to have had so much fulfilment and despatch packed into it as we’ve been processing last minute orders (primarily from blokes it must be admitted) for Christmas presents.

Payment processing has been going non-stop…probably not at the same level as High Street retailers but nevertheless our banking and datacapture teams have been working flat out to ensure we finish off in time for Christmas.

It’s the last day for our carriers to collect today, so it’s all hands to the deck across the entire business – to ensure we can all get away early to start a well deserved break with our families and friends.

For those of you who are current clients we look forward to working with you in 2011 and hope the year is successful and prosperous. For anyone not yet a client of MRM – give us a call in the New Year and we’ll show you how cost effective and technology-led we are…as well as being lovely people.

Take care and Merry Christmas!

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Waiting for the snow

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Here in Market Harborough, in the centre of the UK at the fabulous promotional handling house that is MRM, we were all very excited first thing as we got into the office nice and early in anticipation of the promised heavy snow.

It all started well, with red skies (the old ‘shepherd’s warning tale was being spoken across the building) and cold weather but now, less than 3 hours later we’ve got clear blue skies and sunshine and not a snowflake in sight.

However some of our clients are not so lucky…Forestry Commission based up in Edinburgh have sent us some amazing photos of what can only be described as the biggest blanket of snow we’ve ever seen.

With promotional campaigns and mail order incredibly busy for us at this time of year for our DVD and book retailers – we’re working hard to ensure all orders are despatched on time as we work through express delivery options and do our utmost to make sure all those present orders arrive in time for Christmas.

….but we’re still disappointed that we don’t even have enough snow to make a snowman like we did last year…

Have you got snow where you live? Tell us about it and we’ll be even more envious!

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Best varsity match ever – MRM and Hive still recovering

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If you ring into either MRM or Hive offices any time before 3pm please forgive any general wooliness or confusion. The reason? We’re still recovering from what has to be the best MRM and Hive varsity celebration ever yesterday. Hosted at The Ailsa Tavern, just down the road from Twickenham – there were 35 of us sneaking pegs of each other, checking which hand we were drinking with and having a good old chinwag over an awful lot of drinks.

I checked the bar bill this morning and was quite surprised to see that we’d drunk our way through 104 chilli sambucas alone last night-  that now explains why we’re feeling a little sore in the head and hoarse I guess…

Thanks to our various guests from British Gas, IPC Media, Wax Communications, Hive, Crayon London, Heinz, Net Initiative (who flew down for the game, such is their commitment), Colgate, Kimberly Clark, Bausch & Lomb, BSH Appliances, the Institute of Promotional Marketing and all the other clients that took the time to spend the day and evening with us.

From the various emails we’ve already received today, we understand you all to have got home safely – in various states.

On behalf of everyone at MRM we’d like to wish you a very Merry Christmas and New Year and we look forward to seeing you soon.

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