by Sandy Hubbard | Customer Communication, Finance, Marketing, Operations, Print Sales, Sales
When printing businesses see their sales drop, there are gaping organizational issues that can be the root cause. The printing company itself may be the one at fault, and that’s the core reason the sales team struggles to do its best work. We’ve talked...
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 | Customer Communication, Featured, Marketing, Operations, Print Sales, Print Services, Sales, Tips, Trends
Authenticity for brand, personal, and print business messaging has become more important than ever. Whether it’s in advertising, social media, or everyday conversation, people want to feel that the messages they receive are genuine and truthful. Last week was...
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 Sandy Hubbard | Customer Communication, Marketing, Operations
You can have all the right people in the room and still have a creative block when you do marketing for a printing company. Here’s my perspective on how to get the creativity flowing when you do print-digital-media marketing in the printing industry. This story is...
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...
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