Marketing & Communications

The SMUSA Marketing Department

The SMUSA Marketing Department is the department through which SMUSA communicates with, and advertises to, the population of Saint Mary's University. The media the department produces include (but not limited to) posters, brochures, flyers, hand-outs, table-toppers, and the SMUSA Page.
Serving Students, Societies, SMU, and the Community

The Department's services extend beyond the needs of the Students' Association to serve the individual students, SMU societies, SMU departments, and off-campus clients. The Marketing Department offers the following services:

Graphic Design

The Department uses Adobe Creative Suite 2, the leading design suite, to create quality graphics for its clients. Be it graphics for print or web, our graphic designers work closely with the clients to ensure the graphics we create meet our clients unique needs.

Printing

The Department can provide its clients with affordable, high-quality laser prints in colour or black and white, up to 12 in. x18 in. in size. The Department also has a wide format printer that can print posters at 3 ft. wide, and up to 9 ft. high.

The Department can also help you print quality brochures, booklets, and all other formats. These services are offered for your convenient through our relationships with Canadian print houses in the metro area.

Scanning

The SMUSA Marketing Department utilizes a basic flat-bed scanner to provide quick scans of small quantities of documents. Typically, the client will receive the scanned pages by e-mail or on their flash card memory within an hour of visiting our Department.

Other Services

If the price of the service you’re looking for is not listed above, please contact the marketing department to get a quote.

Pricing

The current rates will be listed below and in the attached file at the bottom of the page.

Price List

Media Screen Advertising Guidelines and Pricing - Updated December 2009

Payment

All SMU departments, off-campus businesses, and SMU societies have the option to either pay with a check, credit card, cash, or request to be invoiced. Invoices are sent by mail.

Individuals will be required to pay upfront at the rates listed below. Please note that if you are required to pay upfront, the labour charges will only be an estimate.

Contact Us

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To place an order, request quotes, or for general inquiries please contact the Marketing Manager at: marketing.manager[at]smusa.ca or (902) 496-8707. You can also visit our office in Room 520, in the Student Centre.

SMUSA Marketing Manager
Andria Power
SC 520, Marketing Department
496.8707
marketing.manager[at]smusa.ca

SMUSA Webmaster
Elie Khoury
SC 520, Marketing Department
496.8707
webmaster[at]smusa.ca

The SMUSA Communications Department

The SMUSA Communications Department is one of seven departments operated by SMUSA; the others are Marketing, Information Desk, Functions, Husky Patrol, Yearbook, and Liquor Services. SMUSA Communications is the department through which SMUSA communicates to the population of Saint Mary's University. Specifically, the department is responsible for the promotional aspects with regards to specific events and services as devised by the Programmer, Executives, Committees, Gorsebrook Manager etc.

The department's operational responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Website content
Information / Marketing campaigns
Collection of SMUSA page submissions
Marquee
Maintaining all bulletin boards including SMUSA cases
Putting up SMUSA posters
Tearing down all expired poster
Presidents Report
The tasks outlined above are mandatory and primarily used to keep the basic communication channels open internally within SMUSA, and externally to the entire university campus community.

Poster Policy

The poster policy is enforced by the Communications Department. Below is the complete policy of which each communications staff is required to know and enforce.

The poster policy was established by the Saint Mary's University Students' Association in an effort to limit all poster and flyers placed on campus to designated bulletin boards, thereby eliminating unsightly cluttered walls The policy will also prohibit external businesses that offer services that are in direct conflict or competition with services currently offered on campus, from advertising anywhere on campus.

You can read the pdf of the poster policy.