by Sandy Hubbard | Customer Communication, Marketing, Operations, Print Sales, Publishing
Your business deserves the very best treatment in telling its story. Elevate it with print! Here’s why, and I believe this with all my heart: Print makes stories memorable. It gives ideas stature. Statistically, most of us have written carefully-crafted...
by Sandy Hubbard | Finance, Marketing, Operations, Print Media
A bittersweet side effect of my consulting work with clients is that owners sell their print businesses when they hit a pre-determined level of success. That comes about at my prompting. I have only myself to blame. You see, at the beginning of our relationship, I ask...
by Sandy Hubbard | Marketing, Print Sales, Sales
Marketing to the SaaS sector starts by understanding the everyday challenges of this type of business. Today let’s learn about Software as a Service – SaaS, and how they can solve their most significant problem with print. Why should SaaS care about print? To get in...
by Sandy Hubbard | Buyers, Marketing, Sales
I was brought in as an expert by another marketing consultant. He was working with an international company, and one of their tried-and-true lead gen programs was not doing the job anymore. We met with the corporate marketing people, and they explained the program....
by Sandy Hubbard | Customer Communication, Marketing, Operations, Print Sales
To improve our businesses, we need to continuously learn about the people we serve. Think about the process of asking for customer feedback, for example. While it’s not specifically a marketing activity, it shows customers we care about our relationship with them and...
by Sandy Hubbard | Customer Communication, Direct Mail, Marketing, Print Media
Remember the 1980s public service announcement: “This is your brain on drugs. (Egg sizzles in a hot frying pan.) Any questions?” Sure, we all made fun of the ad, and it became the meme of its time. But it made an impression. It had a short, simple message with a...
by Sandy Hubbard | Employment, Print Media, Slider
How do you create the kind of business that people want to work for, sell for, and advocate for? You have to start with people. In my experience, when my clients work on improving themselves, the ripple effect creates a distinct marketing advantage for the business...
by Sandy Hubbard | Buyers, Creative, Marketing, Print Media, Print Sales
In the past, my client sent top prospects a glitzy book — a sales-oriented white paper. It was packaged in a royal purple turned-edge leather binder with a branded silver clasp. Bling-a-bling-bling! The white paper (created by a big-name agency) was crammed with...
by Sandy Hubbard | Marketing, Print Media
Many years ago my printer called me to ask me to help Ed, a customer who was struggling financially and more than 120 days behind in payments. “Ed’s a great guy,” the printer said, “It’s a long shot, but if there’s any hope of getting his business turned around, we...
by Sandy Hubbard | Email Marketing, Marketing, Printers
Email is a basic tool, but it is very powerful and has decades of marketing practices behind it. It’s perfect for a printing company on a budget. Using affordable and strategic marketing tools such as email on a regular schedule will help plant your brand firmly and...
by Sandy Hubbard | Print Media, Print Sales, Sales
Assumptions about pricing can kill your business. Here’s an example. Recently I helped a printer get rid of half of his business that was dragging him down. He had spent ten years using loss-leader pricing on half his products. For an entire decade, he made...
by Sandy Hubbard | Customer Communication, Marketing
Whether you bring in a pro to help you update your website — or do it yourself — there are 10 things to do before you hit the publish button. But first! I’d like to talk about one of my early clients. Mike Hasson was the founder of the Hasson Company, a...
