New Canon Compatibles

Just in time for back to school! We have added several new products including the very popular Canon CLI-221 black, cyan, magenta, and yellow compatible cartridges along with the PGI-220 black compatible cartridge. These cartridges work with several of Canon's latest printers, including the PIXMA iP3600, iP4600, MP620, MP980 and many more!

Our Carrot compatibles work great and at a great savings for all your back to school printing needs!

Congratulations to our RC Truck Giveaway winners!!!

Daniel Greenberg, NY
Rochelle Hanson, CA
Matthew A Davis, OH
Tabatha Watts, NC
Celeste Clark, MI
Diane M. Burchiel, NV
Lu Anne Patrick, VA
Phillip Davies, PA
Martha McGee, MS

Thank you all for your participation!

Please stay tuned for more special offers and giveaways from the Carrot Bunch!

Great Ink Needs Great Paper!

As you may know, we are always adding new products. We have recently added a wide selection of Letterhead Paper to our website! Plus, we will have many new designs added soon. We offer the best quality paper you can find with smooth finishes and wonderful resolutions. Our entire selection of paper is compatible with laser printers, inkjet printers, and/ or copiers.

Keep in mind that the more you buy, the more you save. We offer 25 sheets of paper in each package, priced at:

$3.99 each, or
2 or more for $3.49 each, or
4 or more for $2.99 each

Please feel free to contact us at 877-322-7768 if you have any questions about our paper, and we will be more than happy to help in any way we can!

Now’s the time to Buy a new Printer

Carrot Ink was founded on the principle that your ink shouldn’t cost more than your printer. Back in 1998, I believe you could buy the lower end printers for about $150 and the ink cartridges were in the neighborhood of $50. So, depending on how many cartridges your printer used, it would be close. But saying “your ink shouldn’t cost more than your printer” was a little bit of an exaggeration.

I’ve seen several ads lately where decent printers made by the top printer manufacturers are on special in the $35 - $45 range. For a while, OEM cartridge prices were dropping and now they are on the rise to the point where you can actually find printers that cost less than the OEM cartridge. All the more reason to shop at Carrot Ink where your ink STILL costs less than your printer.

Kodak Reveals All Or Not!

Kodak has a new ad campaign, which is a continuation of their old ad campaign about how much you can save in printing costs if you use their printer and ink versus one of the other guys such as HP, Canon, Lexmark, Epson, Brother, etc.

The other guys have been selling expensive ink well…since…forever! Now Kodak thinks it’s revealing a “big secret” about how much the other guys ink costs. I think this is hilarious! This is exactly what third party Ink and Toner companies like Carrot Ink have been telling people for more than 10 years!

The best part about it is that you can even get ink for Kodak printers at Carrot Ink for 30-40 percent less than you would pay Kodak.


The beat goes on…

How much is too much?

There is a fine line between aggressively promoting your business or products and spam. We recently promoted a Resume Kit along with job hunting resources. Prior to our promotion, we emailed our customer database and then continued the promotion on Twitter. Needless to say, our message was out there repeatedly. Our intention was to help, not to bother.

As you know, we run an inkjet and toner company that sells over the internet. We send out emails to make sure that our customers are aware of our latest and greatest promotions. From my perspective, I feel like we are making sure our customers have a great offer in their inbox if they happen to need some ink this week. If not, it is pretty easy to delete. I am not just a sender of emails but a recipient just like everyone else. Maybe because I am a sender I appreciate an inbox full of offers just in case I need to use one…

If you want to opt out of our e-mail, that is pretty easy to do too (unlike the ones you get from “yourself” and are like an infinite loop when you try to opt out). However, recently, I received a letter by snail mail telling us to quit sending emails. The sender was rather irate that we were polluting his inbox and even wanted to sue us if he could. Well, it takes all kinds! But I got to thinking that maybe everyone doesn’t appreciate frequent emails so that they have a fresh deal at hand when they need to reference one.

So, it begs the question, “How many emails are too many?” What do you think?

Help for the Job Search

With the tremendous number of people who are unemployed and that number exponentially growing, I felt that we should do something to help.

While brainstorming at the Carrot Patch, we came up with a “Resume Kit” to provide a necessity that everyone looking for a job would appreciate.

These kits consist of high quality paper and envelopes and job hunting resources.

The first kit consists of 25 sheets of paper to have a good copy to take to an interview. For those who want to send their resumes by mail, the second kit consists of 15 sheets of paper and 5 envelopes.

• In addition, we are including the link to our blog where we have provided a list of job hunting websites that may be of interest. This puts a lot of job search resources in one listing so that the job hunter doesn’t have to try to dig them up for themselves. We were able to work a partnership with a local recruiter we met at a Dallas Tweetup – Craig Fisher (@fishdogs), who owns a local recruitment company called A-list Solutions. Through this blog, you will be able to download his Interview Prep e-Book.

• Finally, we are including a coupon for 25% Off Carrot Brand Inkjet cartridges, which is a deep discount on our already low prices.

• At the end of the day, there is little or no profit to us in these kits, since our intention is not to try to make money on the backs of the unemployed. We just want to help them with the resources they need to land that new job.

If you are reading this and are unemployed, you may want to see our other blogs on job hunting. But in any event, the best of luck in your job search. If you are not unemployed, please pass this on to someone you may know who is.