What we do and why we founded MonasteryGreetings.com . . . In 1997, founder Will Keller wrote nearly 350 monasteries and religious communities in the United States and Canada and asked them about products they make and sell to the public. During this research, he discovered that, while these community businesses have numerous high-quality products, often they do not have the time or resources to reach a wide audience. Hence, the concept of Monastery Greetings was born and tailored to meet their marketing needs. . . The first catalog was launched on a small scale in the fall of 1999. In 2002, we were honored by the monks of St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts when they asked Monastery Greetings to handle retail mail order fulfillment of Trappist Preserves (an award-winning product line that includes more than 25 preserves, jellies, conserves and marmalade and is the largest monastic business in the United States.) Through the Monastery Greetings catalog and website, more than one hundred religious communities currently make their products available. In 2007, Monastery Greetings will publish its fifteenth catalog -- Pentecost 2007 -- with 80 pages and more than 300 products. . . . Similar to the way we handle Trappist Preserves for St. Joseph's Abbey, we would like to act as a fulfillment services for products made by other religious communities. Also in the future, Monastery Greetings wants to be a place where these community businesses can share ideas about marketing and product development. The long-range vision for Monastery Greetings is to gather monastic products from all over the world. . . Updated 4-2007
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