3 Sweet Reasons To Use Email Plus Print

Remember Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup ads? “Hey! You got peanut butter on my chocolate!” Yum! That’s how I feel about email and print together. Adding email to print (or print to email) magnifies the reader’s experience and improves your marketing success. They really are two great tastes that taste great together. Let’s talk about how to […]

Meet Robert Hunt: Creator Of Awesome Industry App @PrintApply

As I often mention, one of the perks to having a website that’s dedicated to sharing cool things with our community is that cool things come along! Such is the case with Print Apply – an App for print professionals and graphic designers!  I’ve had the App and have been sharing info about it for […]

360 Panoramic of the BBC’s World’s Newsroom Triggered by #DirectMail

This is certainly a cool way to stand out from the crowd, especially when you are approaching the “media” industry which I have to assume applies to those who BUY space, and not members of the media.  While there isnt very detailed information below such as did the DM have an envelope – and if […]

Free Wi-fi, Friend or Foe? [infographic]

via Free Wi-fi, Friend or Foe? [infographic]. As mobile devices become more and more popular the demand for easy access to wi-fi increases as well. It is already pretty easy to access wi-fi in most places including coffee shops, restaurants, the mechanics, etc. Access to wifi will only become wider spread and easier to access especially […]

Penguin Books and Zappar Bring Augmented Reality to Print

Dear Mobile Industry, As a member of the Print Industry I would like you to consider the following before declaring some sort of victory in the form of an editorial end-zone dance when the game has only just begun. First of all, Print isn’t attempting to compete with you, or technology. We are part of […]

Infographic: E-Books in America

I rarely consider myself a traditionalist, but when it comes to books I do prefer mine the old fashion way, or so I thought. Im not questioning the ink on paper part, Im questioning my thought that my preference is old fashioned – aka out of date, not cool etc.  Have I been e-brainwashed to […]

Philadelphia Newspaper Adds Augmented Reality via iPad App

The author makes a great point in reference to marketing technology: there is a time and place for everything. Like with QR codes on highway billboards and other poor executions that also added little or no value to the audience, is it of any value to use an iPAD to enhance newspaper content when you […]

What Apple Didn't Announce: New App Store category for Catalogs

This is one of those good news/bad news things depending upon where you sit in the Marketing industry. For the digital crowd, especially designers – congrats and enjoy your free time while it lasts. For the Print people, well catalogs aren’t going away (at least for now), but I have to imagine the volume will […]

New Flexible Screen Technology For Displays

The video and concept Tablet are aimed at consumers, but this product also has amazing potential for in-store displays!  The second video shows the screen applied to tangible materials and Im not sure since it’s a concept if they can be made any larger, but if they could – imagine the Trade Show Booth of the […]

Print Empire Embraces a New Order

Not much to say here other than EVERY company out there should be taking the same approach and formulating a digital strategy.  Hopefully, you have read the interview I did with Aaron Shapiro, CEO of HUGE, a Digital Marketing Agency and author of the book Users Not Customers, because this is exactly the shift he is […]

Microsoft Office Unveils the Future

Notice a few things? Not one piece of paper (that I caught), the future still has Polar Bears (yay! – well that is an assumption buy why tease a kid), signage is the “key maker” (if you dont know your Matrix references by now you should look into that), and more poignantly, when reflecting upon […]

Digital is not a four-letter word!

This is a post I wrote last year for another blog and while I am not usually a recycler in this area, the message is still relevant (and it is 10/10 after all), so I thought I would share it here… The Number 42…Today is 10/10/10, and in binary code 101010 represents the number 42. […]