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March 28, 2006
lasermonks.com
Featured in Sunday's New York Times story by Paul B. Brown, this website is the brainchild of the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank in Wisconsin.
Last year's online sales of discounted printer cartridges and other office supplies totaled $2.5 million.
After covering the $150,000 required to maintain the monastary and its grounds, the monks donated the remainder of the company's profits to "help support charities that range from a camp for kids with H.I.V. to a Buddhist orphanage in Tibet."
Brown noted that "The web site also accepts online prayer requests."
- Here's his article:
If the members of the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank in Wisconsin ever want to go into business full time, there will be no shortage of takers for their marketing prowess.
"LaserMonks: Real savings. Real monks. Supporting real people."
That could be the positioning statement of their commercial subsidiary, LaserMonks.com, which sells discounted printer cartridges and other office supplies online, Fortune Small Business reports.
The business had $2.5 million in sales in 2005, and the monks plan to offer a full line of office electronics later this year.
Sales cover the $150,000 annual cost to maintain the monastery and its grounds.
The rest of the company's profits, Christine Y. Chen writes, "help support charities that range from a camp for kids with H.I.V. to a Buddhist orphanage in Tibet."
The Web site also accepts online prayer requests.
[via Paul Brown and the New York Times and Christine Y. Chen writing in Fortune Small Business]
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I first bought replacement cartridges from them over a year ago and have had good experience with thier quality.
As a cradle Roman Catholic, the idea that perhaps the extension of their good deeds and prayers might shave off my time in Purgatory brings a smidgen of comfort too.
Not too worried about that. Who knows what lies beyond?
Posted by: mattp9 | Mar 28, 2006 2:48:44 PM
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