by Tod Cordill | Marketing, Print Sales, Sales, Tips
In 1989 fax machines were state of the art communications. America Online was still in its early years. Batman was playing in the movie theaters, rejuvenating the superhero genre and reestablishing the Batman brand. Tiananmen Square and the Berlin Wall were in the...
by Tod Cordill | Marketing, Print Sales, Tips
Trust. It’s a big topic in the marketing world right now. Google search on brand or marketing trust or “brand trust” and “marketing trust” over the past few months and you’ll see articles in websites like Forbes, AdAge, TechCrunch, Business2Community, and Social Media...
by Tod Cordill | Marketing, Marketing Automation, Operations, Training
You are good at what we do. You’ve done it for a long time. You’re experts in it. And you can talk about it all day long. But guess what? Your customers just don’t care. Sure, they want you to be successful, mostly because they need your services and they want you...
by Tod Cordill | Design, Direct Mail, Events, Marketing, Packaging, Trends
Years ago when I was on the small initial team developing a brand new software product we hired someone to focus on integrating a help and learning system into the product. He immediately started talking about how we needed to integrate a new concept called...
by Tod Cordill | Direct Mail, Marketing, Marketing Automation
Send Personalized Direct Mail Using CRM Data Previously I wrote about four ways a commercial printer can Leverage Client CRM Data to Improve Print Sales. But despite the fact that CRM systems are extensively used across all industries and company sizes, only 46% of...
by Tod Cordill | Data, Direct Mail, Marketing, Marketing Automation
Customer Resource Management platforms have been around for over twenty-five years now, and seem to be everywhere. If you haven’t been implemented CRM, or given much thought about your clients’ use of CRM, why should you be concerned about it now? You should pay...
by Tod Cordill | Direct Mail, Finance, Marketing
It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that digital marketing channels hold the keys to driving revenue in brick & mortar retail businesses. Relying on traditional marketing channels may seem archaic when you’re starting to feel like you are a legacy...
by Tod Cordill | Email Marketing, Marketing, Marketing Automation, Trends
The guys over at chiefmartec have been tracking marketing technologies since 2011. Over that time their list of marketing tech solutions has grown from 150 to over 7,000. That’s 7,000 solutions out there competing for a piece of the marketing budget. This presents a...
by Tod Cordill | Automation, Email Marketing, Marketing
Over the past few months, we’ve discussed calendar based and behavior based email marketing. But there’s a classic chicken or the egg problem… how do you grow your list of emails in the first place? Use email capture forms to transform your website from a digital...
by Tod Cordill | Direct Mail, Email Marketing, Marketing, Marketing Automation
Last month I discussed calendar based emails, which is sending emails when you want to send them. These calendar-based emails might be a newsletter sent at a regular schedule or a campaign when you want to market an event. While you may target part of your audience to...
by Tod Cordill | Email Marketing, Marketing, Marketing Automation, Operations, Tips, Tools
Email marketing falls into two basic categories: calendar-based or behavior based. Calendar based emails are sent based on your marketing calendar and are not triggered by a particular behavior. Examples of calendar-based emails include: Email newsletter Marketing...
by Tod Cordill | Direct Mail, Marketing Automation, Print Media
It’s that time of the year. Predictions abound about what technologies will take off, which will nudge their way closer to extinction, and how to benefit from all these changes. Every forecaster has their own strategy for making predictions. You can go on a wild flyer...