How Influencers Can Help Printers Get Better Marketing Results
Finding high-quality leads ready to buy can be challenging for everyone, including printers. Luckily, influencer marketing is a valuable tool for capturing interest from warm prospects. WHAT IS INFLUENCER MARKETING? Influencer marketing uses the attractive power of a popular person to bring attention to your business. Usually, the influencer is paid to serve this role, […]
The Intersection of Branding and Packaging
Packaging is designed to contain, protect, and transport products. Packaging provides a fourth purpose – to inform the consumer. The information on a package can be a deciding factor during the 7 seconds an average consumer spends to make a purchase decision. Approximately 70% of shoppers are influenced by packaging to some extent. The package […]
Tales From The Trail: #ProjectPeacock Saddles Up for Digital Print in Austin, Texas
After successful meetings in 2017 with over 300 professional print buyers and creatives in NYC, Chicago, and the San Francisco Bay Area, Project Peacock saddled up and launched our 2018 tour last week in Austin, Texas. Me and my Peacock partners Canon Solutions America, Domtar Paper, Scodix and Miralupa, had 3 fantastic days of visits sharing printspiration with […]
More Than Diversity – A Layer Above Personalization
Whenever I’ve discussed cybersecurity and information security with clients or team members, I’ve often returned to how security should be considered during the initial design and implementation of technical infrastructure and processes. It can’t be an afterthought where an organization just buys a fancy system a vendor promises will keep them safe. That’s what I […]
Color, Quality and Consistency: 2017 Print Buyer Survey Results Are In
For the past two years I have sent out some poignant questions to the print buying community with two goals in mind; first and foremost to find out what they care about, and second with my Print Buyerologist hat on, help printers and suppliers understand what they care about, in a manner that will resonate. The […]
How To Create And Deliver Great Presentations
by Marion Williams-Bennett We’ve all been there. You are held captive in a dimly lit room listening to a presentation. The presenter has his back to the audience and is reading each and every one of the bullets on his slide. And the sub-bullets. Just when you think you are free, the next slide flies in […]
The Key To Personalization Marketing Is Knowing Your Goals
Bringing Personalization Into Your Campaigns by Randy Hardy You’ve listened to the experts and realize how important personalization is to your marketing campaigns. You have the technology, and know that with relatively simple data you can add personalization to your campaign. Before you start to use personalization, you need to put some thought into how personalization […]
How to Market Your Printing Company to Millennials
By Katherine Tattersfield Hey print providers—are you targeting me yet? Maybe you’re ignoring me because I don’t own a business…yet. Well, do so at your own peril. Those of us on the older end of the Millennial spectrum are 30 already. It’s high time you started taking us seriously. We are pushing forward with our […]
Why Should I Buy Print From YOU?
“Hi. My name is Frank and I work for an award-winning printing shop. We use the latest technology to bring you the best product. We do it quicker than anyone else and our prices can’t be beat.” Does this sound familiar? Do you use these, or similar, words when calling on prospects? Does it work? […]
The Power And Challenges Of Personalized Marketing Communications
by Randy Hardy Are You Talking to Me? Anyone involved in marketing today knows that to get heard by your audience, you need to deliver a personalized message that speaks directly to them. Personalization has been proven to improve response rates and create a greater connection with the recipient. Printed personalized direct mail pieces […]
One Printers' Journey From PSP To MSP And Back Again
A while back one of my LinkedIn group members, Ashely Horton, shared a really cool VDP campaign his printing company created and executed. I reached out to him immediately in hopes of sharing his story as an inspiration to Printers, and while the story is still inspiring, it definitely took a turn I didn’t see […]
Using PR to Grow Your Business – Start with a Press Release
By Marion Williams-Bennett In our last blog post, How To Create A Successful PR Campaign For Your Business, we looked at some of the fundamentals of how and why a company would want to start a public relations program. As we learned, PR can help you create awareness of your company and your services, PR […]