“TikTok is just a fad for kids. Kids don’t buy print, so I shouldn’t waste my time thinking about TikTok.” ~...
How To Boost Your Print Shop’s Open House with Digital Marketing
Hosting an open house event at your print shop is a great way to showcase your capabilities to your prospects and...
Should You Email People Who Didn’t Ask You To?
Print business owners and marketers: Raise your hand if you have ever sent email marketing to a prospect database...
Can Geofencing and Retargeting Work for Your Print Marketing?
Your prospective print customers are everywhere. And yet they can be so hard to find. Quite a few of them are using...
Marketing Strategy + Execution + Continuous Improvement = Long-Term Profit
Every printing company needs a marketing strategy, but most don’t have one. Strategically and logically combining...
Why Creating a Search-Optimized Print Website Feels So Good
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) feels so good. Why? Because a search-optimized print website can help you meet...
Cookie Cutter Print Marketing Doesn’t Generate High ROI
Print shop owner #1: “Lead generation is hard, expensive, time-consuming, and frustrating.” Print shop owner #2: “We...
Are Your Print Company Videos Optimized for Search Engines?
Video marketing is hot and print shop video marketing is getting even hotter in 2023. In fact, video is the...
Social Media For Your Print Business (Part 2 of 2)
Executing an effective social media for your print business is easier said than done. After all, social media...
Digital Marketing for Printers in 2022: A Year To Remember
For many printers, digital marketing in 2022 was like a rickshaw ride on a rolling cobblestone road. Fast, bumpy, fun,...
6 Steps to Rebooting Print Business’ Social Media Strategy
Does your print business have a social media strategy? Maybe you publish a post everyone once in a while or perhaps...
Why Create an Account-Based Marketing Strategy for Your Major B2B Accounts
Selling print to large enterprise accounts can be a very profitable and scalable strategy. An effective way of landing...
Should You Send Your Print Customers Newsletters? 5 Ways To Know
Sending print customers newsletters is an idea that has crossed the mind of every print business owner or marketing...
Video (and More!) Marketing Strategies for Your Print Business (Part 2)
People love video marketing. OK, maybe that’s not true for everyone. People love video! Yes, that is true, especially...
Video Marketing Strategies for Your Print Business (Part 1)
Video is a marketing tool that print business owners should not ignore. Generally speaking, printers just don’t...
Best Digital Advertising Strategies for Printers to Reach Targeted Print Buyers
Part 2 of a 2-part series How can your print business reach print buyers by using digital advertising? There’s no...
Should Your Print Business Pay to Advertise with Mark Zuckerberg?
Part 1 of a 2-part series Paid digital advertising is one of the most effective and cost-efficient ways for a print...
Combine the Powers of Digital Printing with Digital Marketing
If you’re like most print service providers, you are trying to grow your business. You want new customers while...
The Real Cost of Print Customer Acquisition
What does it cost you to get a new lead to your website from your digital marketing campaigns? The cost equation...
Do Customer Loyalty and Rewards Programs Drive More Print Profit?
This blog is part 3 of a 3-part series: Maximize New Opportunities Through Current Customers. Catch-up here: Part 1 -...
How A Customer Reference Program Can Help You Sell More Print
This blog is part 2 of a 3-part series: Maximize New Opportunities Through Current Customers How many print buying...
Top Ten Tips for Email Marketing Best Practices
Many printing companies rely on email as their primary communications tool for reaching customers and prospects....
Is Your Print Business Maximizing the Value of Your Customers?
What is a customer worth to your business? The simplest calculation is your customer lifetime value (CLV), which is...
Do All Your Employees Know the Elevator Pitch of Your Print Business?
No. The answer is no, they don’t. Some of your employees are non-customer-facing so MAYBE it’s not necessary for them...
Does Your Print Business Really Have a PR Plan?
The truth is that most businesses (print or otherwise) do not have a public relations (PR) plan. We are all busy and...
What’s Your Priority? Sales Revenue or New Lead Generation?
What do you think is the highest-priority marketing objective of print businesses today? To drive sales revenue or...
Should Your Print Business be Advertising on LinkedIn?
LinkedIn advertising is an expensive form of B2B digital advertising. It’s also one of the most cost-efficient. Wait,...
How Much Should Your Print Business Spend On Marketing
A print industry friend of mine asked my opinion about how he should budget for marketing this year. I’ll share with...
How To Get Your Print Business Ranked High in Google Search
Getting your print company’s website organically ranked by search engines is one of the toughest digital marketing...
Using Content Marketing to Drive Print Buyers to Your Business
Google "what is content marketing" and you’ll get bewildered by a dozen definitions. Some say that content marketing...
My 2021 Resolution: To Help More Printers Get More Customers!
My name is David Murphy and I love to help printers bring value to new customers. In fact, it’s been my passion for...