by Deborah Corn | Buyers, Creative, Customer Communication, Design, Featured, Marketing, Operations, Print Buying, Print Sales, Print Services, Sales
In the world of printing and design, collaboration is key. From business cards to banners, brochures to billboards, the collaboration between printers and designers each bringing their unique skill sets to the table is a crucial element in producing high-quality print...
by Deborah Corn | Buyers, Creative, Customer Communication, drupa, Education, Events, Featured, Marketing, Operations, Print Production, Print Sales, Print Services, Sales, Tips, Trends
Do you see print everywhere? Do you count down the days until the new printing press or finishing equipment arrives at your print shop? Do you know what Pantone color the sky is? Do you make vacation plans around printing industry events or incorporate them? Do you...
by Deborah Corn | Buyers, Events, Featured, Future of Print, Print Buying, Print Media, Print Production, Print Sales, Print Services, Printers
Greetings Citizens of the Printerverse! Another year for the printing industry is in the books. It seems like it zipped by although I can remember how slow the days and weeks felt at the beginning of the year. That is all just a blur now. So much has changed this...
by Deborah Corn | Buyers, Customer Communication, Featured, Print Buying, Print Media, Print Production, Print Sales, Print Services, Printers, Sales
Print has always been a potent channel for direct marketing and communication, and one of the safest. This is not new information to us. But recent events on Twitter including the image above sent out by ‘Nintendo America’ have sent shockwaves through the...
by Deborah Corn | Buyers, Customer Communication, Featured, Print Buying, Print Media, Print Production, Print Sales, Print Services, Printers, Sales
If print customers are thinking of you as a print vendor and not as a print partner, you are in serious trouble. You are interchangeable. You are competing on price. You are a number on a spreadsheet. You aren’t top of mind for recommendations or referrals. You are on...
by Tod Cordill | Buyers, Customer Communication, Marketing, Print Sales
“Nobody ever asked me what customers I wanted before.” This was told to me by the VP of Sales at a $25 million revenue commercial print business a few years back. Throughout his career, new print customers came in seemingly randomly by referrals, leads from the...
by Deborah Corn | #ProjectPeacock, Buyers, Creative, Customer Communication, Design, Education, Featured, Marketing, Print Buying, Print Production, Print Sales, Print Services, Project Peacock, Video
The secret to earning referrals and long-term loyalty with print customers for their printing and print marketing needs is really no secret. Creative collaboration is the key to success. Collaboration can take many forms. On the lowest end, we have information...
by Deborah Corn | Buyers, Customer Communication, Employment, Featured, Jobs, Marketing, Operations, Print Buying, Print Production, Print Sales, Print Services, Sales
Making print sales isn’t easy these days. Supply chain issues are disrupting the process and the ability to promise everything will be ok with 100% certainty. This situation can make even the most seasoned print customers nervous especially if they work as a print...
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 | 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 Nichole Jones | #ProjectPeacock, Buyers, Creative, Design, Digital Print, Direct Mail, Education, Marketing, Packaging, Print Buying, Print Production, Project Peacock
These days good information is increasingly difficult to come by. Unless you already know what you’re looking for, you may have to dig through a few google pages to find the “right” information. Sure, my keywords will get me towards what I need…but after filtering...
by Deborah Corn | #PrintSales, Buyers, Customer Communication, Featured, Marketing, Print Buying, Print Sales, Print Services, Sales
If you read my posts with any frequency or listen to the Print Buying UK v. USA Podcast co-hosted by me and Matthew Parker, you probably know I focus on helping printers create long-term relationships with print customers. I benefited from long-term relationships with...
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