by Deborah Corn | Customer Communication, Digital Media, Featured, Future of Print, Marketing, Print Media, Print Sales, Print Services, Sales, Tips, Trends
Greetings Citizens of the Printerverse and welcome to a New Year! For the first time in 3 years, it feels like an actual NEW year and not a continuation of what I refer to as the uni-year. The uni-year covers anything that happened between March 2020 and December 31,...
by Sandy Hubbard | Customer Communication, Marketing, Print Sales, Print Services
What does it take to succeed at marketing in today’s printing business? I’ll tell you what it doesn’t take. Buying into the hustle-bro marketing mythology. What is hustle-bro mythology? If you watch YouTube, you see snippets of pre-roll advertising that feature...
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 Tod Cordill | Customer Communication, Digital Marketing, Marketing, Operations, Print Sales, Print Services
Are you getting noticed by your print customers? Do you know how they found you? I recently sat in on a client’s sales call with a prospect. When asked the proverbial “how did you hear about us?” question, the prospect answered, “I don’t know. You guys are...
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 | Creative, Customer Communication, Featured, Girls Who Print, International Print Day, Print & Digital, Print Media, Print Production, Printerverse
The global print community will gather to celebrate Girls Who Print Day on October 13, and International Print Day on October 26, hosted online by Print Media Centr September 28, 2022 — The Printerverse – Two print industry milestone events hosted and produced...
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 Sandy Hubbard | Customer Communication, Marketing
A clear marketing message is a challenge for most printers. We write and write and write, thinking that print customers care. They don’t. I’ve talked about brevity and simplicity – and now I want to focus on clarity. When I perform Marketing Reviews, I see printers...
by Deborah Corn | Customer Communication, Design, Education, Featured, Operations, Print Buying, Print Production, Print Sales, Print Services, Sales, Training
The summer is approaching and that typically means a little slow down for most print businesses, but honestly who knows anymore. We will collect metrics as we live through it and reflect on this and past years, like most situations since Covid kicked off. So, I’ll...
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 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...
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