by David Murphy | Digital Marketing, Digital Media, Marketing, Print Buying, Print Sales, Print Services, Sales, Search Marketing
Part 2 of a 2-part series How can your print business reach print buyers by using digital advertising? There’s no shortage of opportunities to spend your money on advertising, but which options are best for your business? In part 1 of this series, we presented the...
by David Murphy | Digital Marketing, Marketing, Print Sales, Print Services, Sales, Search Marketing
Part 1 of a 2-part series Paid digital advertising is one of the most effective and cost-efficient ways for a print business to reach large targeted audiences of print buyers in a short period of time. Yet for a lot of owners of smaller print businesses, paying to...
by David Murphy | Digital Marketing, Marketing, Print Sales, Print Services, Sales, Search Marketing
If you’re like most print service providers, you are trying to grow your business. You want new customers while strengthening the loyalty of your current ones. Beyond those simple goals, you also want to expand your share of your customers’ print wallet by increasing...
by David Murphy | Digital Marketing, Marketing, Print Sales, Print Services, Sales, Search Marketing
What does it cost you to get a new lead to your website from your digital marketing campaigns? The cost equation depends on a list of variables, such as your timing, your offer, your target audience, your competition, and your unique value proposition. Success also...
by David Murphy | Customer Communication, Marketing, Operations, Print Sales, Print Services, Sales
This blog is part 3 of a 3-part series: Maximize New Opportunities Through Current Customers. Catch-up here: Part 1 – Is Your Print Business Maximizing the Value of Your Customers?, Part 2 – How A Customer Reference Program Can Help You Sell More Print...
by David Murphy | Customer Communication, Digital Marketing, Marketing, Print Sales, Print Services, Sales, Slider
This blog is part 2 of a 3-part series: Maximize New Opportunities Through Current Customers How many print buying prospects have you quoted that say they want to “think about it.” Maybe they do, maybe they don’t, but delayed buying behavior like this often occurs...
by David Murphy | Customer Communication, Digital Marketing, Email Marketing, Marketing, Sales
Many printing companies rely on email as their primary communications tool for reaching customers and prospects. Generally, email is used more than phone calls and face-to-face meetings combined. But email is hard and it’s getting harder. As old and omnipresent as it...
by David Murphy | Digital Marketing, Marketing, Operations, Print Sales, Print Services
What is a customer worth to your business? The simplest calculation is your customer lifetime value (CLV), which is the profit you expect to earn from an average customer over the life of your business relationship with that customer. To simplify, suppose your average...
by David Murphy | Marketing, Operations, Print Sales, Print Services, Sales
No. The answer is no, they don’t. Some of your employees are non-customer-facing so MAYBE it’s not necessary for them to learn your company’s pitch. Or MAYBE it is. What about your customer-facing employees? Your sales, customer service, and marketing staff? Do they...
by David Murphy | Customer Communication, Digital Marketing, Marketing
The truth is that most businesses (print or otherwise) do not have a public relations (PR) plan. We are all busy and the idea of creating and structuring a formal PR plan gets deprioritized below operations, sales, and even marketing. Most businesses only think of PR...
by David Murphy | #seo4printers, Digital Marketing, Marketing, Operations, Print Sales, Sales
What do you think is the highest-priority marketing objective of print businesses today? To drive sales revenue or drive lead generation? Recent research shows that lead gen is #1. This was surprising to me at first because you can’t pay the bills with leads....
by David Murphy | Digital Marketing, Marketing, Print Sales, Sales, Social Media
LinkedIn advertising is an expensive form of B2B digital advertising. It’s also one of the most cost-efficient. Wait, how can it be both? The answer arises by looking beyond the cost of placing an ad and the potential ROI. LinkedIn ads aren’t for every print...