DANIELS COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
VENICE, FLORIDA

Our Mission is to grow your business Ernie Daniels came to Asheville, North Carolina in the spring of 1948 expecting to die of tuberculosis. In those days doctors often “prescribed” the clear mountain air of Asheville. But Ernie was a businessman and an entrepreneur who was not interested in sitting still. Armed with only a steno pad he took up shop on a park bench at Pritchard Park and started offering typing services to local businesses. Later, he cut a deal with a local law firm offering to do their typing in the mornings for free if they would allow him to use their typewriter and sell typing to others in the afternoon. Within a short time he saved enough money to buy a typewriter and set up a small “letter shop” to serve the local community. His health stayed poor but his business grew. In 1955, the Daniels family expanded the company by purchasing an existing answering service provider and creating the first professional telephone answering service in Western North Carolina. Once again, the entrepreneurial spirit of this determined man brought a vision for new services to this area. 1956 saw the fledgling company become a part of the Diser Corporation, billed as the nation’s first conglomerate. But management changes caused Ernie to rethink that decision and move away from the corporation after only a few years. By 1965, Jim Daniels, Ernie’s son, took over the family business and purchased the largest printing company in town – Miller Printing. Like his father before him his vision for business and offering services to help a growing community helped him expand and grow throughout the next decades. In 1978, the company expanded into the alarm monitoring central station market. Daniels Monitoring Service was among the first companies licensed by the newly established North Carolina Alarm Systems Licensing Board. Through the years there have been many “firsts”. In 1986, the company became the first to integrate printing, telecommunications and fulfillment. By 1993 the company began to use personal computers to offer variable data documents using an in-house DOS based program written by the general manager at the time. By 2001, the company developed an internal Information Technology group to help customers better communicate their marketing messages through the technology available. By the following year Daniels Graphics added the first digital printing press in Western North Carolina to their service offerings. Acknowledging that collateral management has become a toil for marketing departments, they installed internal storefronts for their customers. These marketing portals allow their customers to get out from under ‘juggling’ materials and focus on business growth. In 2015, Jami Daniels, third generation in the business, took over the reins as COO. In 2016, Jim Daniels died and she became CEO. Today the company continues to grow and add services as new technologies improve our ability to communicate our customers messages in the most cost effective ways. For more than 60 years our company has built a reputation on understanding our customer’s needs, working to meet and exceed their expectations, and building a business relationship based on trust. We’ve built that same trust with our employees and many have spent their entire careers with our company. "When we first opened our business, we used the call center to take calls for us so that we could "I wanted to share some good news about the specialty direct mail pieces you helped us with, recently. For the Annual Fund mailing, we got 27 gifts so far (1.6% of total mailed by my calculation). However, many of the gifts were much larger than expected (yay!) and all from new donors - we expect them to keep coming for a while, pushing us all the way to our Annual Fund goal ahead of schedule. For the Youth Orchestra version, our first major youth orchestra mailing, we got 23 gifts (4.5%), totaling around $5000. This was a major step in starting to actively fundraise for the Youth Orchestra. In all, the total reaches for the year-end campaign are over $23,000 so far, which we are all very excited about. Thank you so much for all your help on this project. We may not do another “specialty” mailer next year but it looks like our guinea-pig year of an exciting mailer paid off! Thanks again!" "Great job on our holiday card. David was super responsive with samples, pricing and production details." "We've been using Daniels for so many years now. We have a great relationship with Jeff Howell and feel that he and the rest of the Daniels team help us do our job better. Always detail-oriented, always committed to doing it right." Tim Bryant and his team have been true partners as we grow as a company, as our fundraising arm grows, and as I grow in my position. Tim's advice, experience and suggestions along the way have proven extremely valuable - AND profitable. The people there at Daniels are always professional and always helpful. Fundraising revenues have grown here at WORLD from being 12% of overall revenue to 30% of overall revenue (we also generate revenues from subscriptions and advertising) and they continue to rise. I attribute our success directly to the tried and true ideas - and some new ones! - that Tim has shared and helped us implement. Tim and his team are always available to ask a question of or to bounce and idea off of, and they are excellent at offering tailor-made solutions for whatever we are trying. I highly recommend the folks at Daniels Graphics - especially when it comes to Fundraising." "I have had the pleasure of working with Daniels Graphics over the past two years. They are our preferred collateral producer and created a custom distribution portal allowing us to control product quality, standardization and quantity. This is integral to our success from a Brand Standard aspect and more importantly from a cost control perspective. I have experienced exceptional support from Daniels Graphics as a strategic business partner to our organization. I would, without reservation, recommend them to anyone requiring their services."