Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Manorville, New York

An estate agent putting a house on the market is usually branding four or five small things at once, and not one of them is large enough to be a print job on its own: the rider that clips onto the sign board, the folder left out on the counter, the tote handed to whoever asks for one, and the card that goes home in a coat pocket. What the agent actually wants is a single small run of one mark, cut to its own shape, that can go onto any of those surfaces. That is the shape of most listing orders we take from Manorville, and it is why this page is arranged around quantity bands instead of around a product list.

## Five places, and all of them inside 4.8 miles

The unusual thing about this corner of Suffolk County, from an ordering point of view, is how tightly the surrounding places sit together. Calverton is 3.5 miles off. East Moriches is 4.0, Center Moriches 4.3, Moriches 4.5, and Mastic 4.8. Every one of the five nearest places we also cover falls inside a 4.8 mile straight line. For an agent working Manorville and the Brookhaven addresses around it, that means a listing here and a listing in any of those five belong to the same working week, and they can sensibly be treated as one print order rather than five separate ones. The saving is not in the postage. It is in the rate, because the rate is set by the total piece count on the order, not by how many listings the pieces end up split across. Everything is printed and cut at one storefront at 205 East Main Street in Huntington, New York. Manorville lies 31.9 miles east of that counter in a straight line.

## The rate falls as the count climbs

Die-cut stickers are priced by the square inch, and the per square inch rate steps down as the order gets bigger. At 1 to 24 pieces the rate is 35 cents. At 25 to 49 it is 30 cents. At 50 to 99 it is 28 cents, at 100 to 249 it is 26 cents, at 250 to 499 it is 24 cents, and at 500 it is 22 cents. Shape barely matters to the price, since a circle, a rounded rectangle and a cut-out house outline of the same overall dimensions all price the same way. The count, not the design, is the lever you have.

## What 200 pieces costs, and what 250 costs

Take the size most listing marks end up at, 2 by 2 inches. That is 4 square inches. At 200 pieces you are in the 100 to 249 band, so the rate is 26 cents, which puts each sticker at $1.04 and the run of 200 at $208.00. Push the same sticker to 250 pieces and the band changes. The rate becomes 24 cents, each sticker is $0.96, and 250 of them come to $240.00. You have paid $32.00 more and received 50 more stickers, which works out cheaper per piece than anything you could have bought at 200. The gap just under 250 pieces is where agents most often leave money on the table.

## The qualifier at ten pieces or ten dollars

An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever it reaches first. It is not a price floor, and it is not a minimum spend dressed up in friendlier language. A single listing that needs only a short run of riders usually clears the qualifier on piece count alone. A small run of a physically large sticker clears it on merchandise value instead. You need only one of the two routes.

## Cut lines, and marks that stay legible small

A die cut follows a line you give us, so the drawing matters more than the file size. Keep the outline simple. A brokerage mark with a thin serif wordmark and a hairline border reads well on a folder and turns muddy on a rider seen from the pavement, so it is worth supplying a simplified version of the same mark for the smaller pieces. Leave a little room between your artwork and the cut line, since a logo that runs right up to the edge has nowhere to go if the cut sits a hair off. If you have the mark in two lock-ups, horizontal for the folder and stacked for the rider, both can run on one order and count toward the same band.

## Planning one mark across a whole listing kit

The easiest way to work out what to order is to walk the listing in your head and count surfaces. Sign rider. Folder. Tote. Business card. Presentation binder. Each wants the same mark at a slightly different size. Rather than ordering five small runs, settle on the two sizes that cover everything and put the whole count on one order so the band works in your favour.

## Four ways this order arrives

The solo agent. You have one listing, you want the rider and the folder to match, and you would rather not think about it again. Pick one size and order enough to cover this listing and the next two.

The team lead. You are branding several agents under one office mark, and consistency is the point. Consolidating everybody's count onto a single order is what moves you into a lower band, and the pieces can still be split up however you like afterwards.

The newly licensed agent. You are building a personal mark alongside the brokerage one and you are not sure which size you will use most. Order the smaller quantity, live with it for a season, then commit.

The agent farming a Manorville neighbourhood. Your mark goes on mailers, on door hangers and on the folder you leave behind. This is the case where the 250 piece band nearly always pays for itself, because the pieces get used steadily rather than in one weekend.

## Asked by agents working the 11949 ZIP

**I have a listing in Manorville and another in Calverton this month. Can they go on one order?** Yes, and they should. The rate comes off the total piece count, so combining the two runs may drop both into a cheaper band. You can still have two different marks or two sizes inside that one order.

**For a Manorville open house I worked out I need 200 stickers at 2 by 2 inches.

Is there any point going to 250?**

There is. At 200 the rate is 26 cents, so $1.04 each and $208.00 for the run. At 250 the rate is 24 cents, so $0.96 each and $240.00 for the run. The extra 50 pieces cost $32.00, which is well under what 50 pieces would cost you at the smaller band.

**Does the 11949 ZIP code change how a Manorville order gets addressed?**

No. Put whichever street address you want the box sent to at checkout, the listing, the office or your home. The ZIP does not affect the rate or the price of the stickers.

**I only need a handful of riders for one Manorville listing. Is that below your minimum?** Probably not. An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first, so a very small run of a reasonably sized sticker often clears it on value alone.

**Can I collect a Manorville order at the shop instead of having it sent out east?** You can. Local pickup at the Huntington storefront is free and carries no shipping charge. Whether the trip is worth making is your call, and posting it is always the alternative.