New Vendor Information
Who We Are
We are the retail services and marketing support for over 500 independent Christian bookstores, denominations and small chains, supplying them with in-store, in-home, in-church and online promotional resources, to help them reach and serve their community in an efficient and economical manner.
We also offer retailers a direct-to-consumer mail piece every month and a direct-to-churches piece twice a year.
Munce unites our stores online with a community website called mtlmagazine.com (mtl = More To Life). This online magazine directly ties into our print piece via articles, reviews, movie clips and much more. Mtlmagazine.com additionally features a store finder to bring our retailers new customers. We also have an online bookstore, mtlbookstore.com, for consumers who choose to purchase online. All profits from the online bookstore are shared with the store in the area of the purchase (this is decided by zip code). Both the stores and mtl are supported by social media such as Facebook and Twitter.
Who We Serve
Our stores average:
Annual Sales: $450,000
Square Footage: 4,500
Customer Database: 5,000
POS of Choice: Bookstore Manager (over 65%)
Mailings a Year: 4 or approximately once per quarter
Their commitment to the Munce Group:
While we offer over 12 mailed pieces to our stores, they are committed as a Munce member to participate in only two catalogs a year—Spring Sale (May) catalog and Christmas Sale (November) catalog. (NOTE: The average store participates in approximately 4 catalogs a year.) They are also committed to carrying all of the product in the catalogs to the best of their ability.
How We Can Work Together
Books, Music, Bibles & Children Products
Munce offers affordable advertising in both our print and web (see Catalog Planner for estimated store participation, circulation and deadlines). It is our goal to work with you, the vendor, in a manner that is going to benefit your business as well as the business of our independent retailers.
All products that are submitted to the Munce Group for advertising either via web or print will need to be approved by the Munce home office. We will be looking for sound evangelical products that will help the consumer to come to a saving knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ, to grow in his or her faith and to lead others in the same.
An additional review process will need to take place if your products are not available through one of the following distributors:
• Anchor
• New Day
• Spring Arbor
• STL
NOTE: This approval process can take up to 6 weeks.
After your product has been approved, we will then discuss the catalog and web placements of your products according to the theme and seasons of the catalogs that best suit your product line.
Contracts will then be created; and once we receive a signed contract in our office, we will notify our members of your involvement within a catalog.
Although we cannot guarantee product placement or purchase, we do our best to inform our members of the products advertised and the value our vendor partners are to them as retailers. All of our stores do sign an agreement to carry all the products in the catalog to the best of their ability. For products that are available through a distributor, we have a 95% compliance rate.
"Munce member stores do a better job supporting the products promoted in Munce Marketing vehicles by buying more total units of those procuts than is true for other marketing groups." -Zondervan
"A dollar spent with the Mucne Group results in more unit sales through its member stores than with any other marketing groups." -Zondervan
CLICK HERE TO FILL OUT BOOKS, MUSIC and BIBLES PRODUCT SUBMISSION FORM
Gifts
All gifts will need to be reviewed by our committee. We meet with them three times a year: mid-January, ICRS (June/July) and mid-September. Any product line that is submitted between those dates will either be held until the next meeting or samples will need to be sent to our store owners for review. This product will need to be shipped to Munce. We will then send it out to our committee for review. This product will not be returned unless the product shipping information is included.
It is in your best interest to have the product available through at least one of the above mentioned distributors.
CLICK HERE TO FILL OUT GIFTS PRODUCT SUBMISSION FORM
As a new vendor or a vendor who has not worked with us in the past two years, we require Credit Application. If this is approved, you will go to 30-day billing after the catalog has been printed. If time is limited and we do not have time to approve credit, we will need 50% of the ad fee up front with the remaining balance due 30 days after the piece has been printed. If credit cannot be established with the credit report, we will need payment in full before we will run the ad.
CLICK HERE TO FILL OUT CREDIT APPLICATION
To submit your products to Munce, please send your product information to NewVendor@munce.com or mail to the address below:
Munce Group
Attn: New Vendor
415 Second Street
Indian Rocks Beach, FL 33785