{"id":624,"date":"2010-12-22T10:27:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T17:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deansmailing.com\/rationalmarketing\/?p=624"},"modified":"2010-12-20T15:32:26","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T22:32:26","slug":"do-it-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deansmailing.com\/rationalmarketing\/index.php\/2010\/12\/do-it-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Do It Yourself?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBS Money Watch posted an article about some instances when it might be less expensive to pay a professional. Their list included: changing the oil in a car, formal printing jobs, selling valuable personal items and taxes. There is even a website called <a href=\"http:\/\/diyornot.com\/\">diyornot.com<\/a> that helps to calculate if it is worth the money savings to attempt a home improvement project by yourself.<\/p>\n<p>To expand on the explanation of asking a professional to print invitations, posters or other materials, the Money Watch team discussed the costs of ink cartridges, time and frustration.<\/p>\n<p>Mailing is very similar to printing. Using a <a title=\"Direct Mail\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deansmailing.com\" target=\"_blank\">professional mailer<\/a> can definitely save you time and frustration. A professional mailer can also update your mailing list by checking for changes of address and identify undeliverable addresses that may only need a small correction.<\/p>\n<p>Mailings can qualify for the discounted presorted rates with quantities as small as 200 items. The postage savings will start to save you money and pay for the services of a professional at surprisingly low quantities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBS Money Watch posted an article about some instances when it might be less expensive to pay a professional. Their list included: changing the oil in a car, formal printing jobs, selling valuable personal items and taxes. There is even a website called diyornot.com that helps to calculate if it is worth the money savings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[16,23],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-direct-mail","tag-minimize-costs","tag-minimum-quantity-for-postage-discount"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deansmailing.com\/rationalmarketing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deansmailing.com\/rationalmarketing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deansmailing.com\/rationalmarketing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deansmailing.com\/rationalmarketing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deansmailing.com\/rationalmarketing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.deansmailing.com\/rationalmarketing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"https:\/\/www.deansmailing.com\/rationalmarketing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deansmailing.com\/rationalmarketing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deansmailing.com\/rationalmarketing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deansmailing.com\/rationalmarketing\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}