by Tod Cordill | Digital Marketing, Direct Mail, Interactive, QR, Trends
QR codes have been used by marketers since early 2010. As smartphone adoption increased, phone manufacturers and marketers realized the camera on the phones could be used to scan the codes. The hope was that response rates would increase as consumers find scanning a...
by David Murphy | Customer Communication, Digital Marketing, Marketing
The truth is that most businesses (print or otherwise) do not have a public relations (PR) plan. We are all busy and the idea of creating and structuring a formal PR plan gets deprioritized below operations, sales, and even marketing. Most businesses only think of PR...
by Tod Cordill | Customer Communication, Digital Marketing, Marketing, Print Sales, Print Services
The other day a client forwarded me an email that was written by the president of a commercial printing company who asked: Does anyone have suggestions for marketing specifically designed for lead generation? I’ve done plenty of work with this client over the years...
by David Murphy | #seo4printers, Digital Marketing, Marketing, Operations, Print Sales, Sales
What do you think is the highest-priority marketing objective of print businesses today? To drive sales revenue or drive lead generation? Recent research shows that lead gen is #1. This was surprising to me at first because you can’t pay the bills with leads....
by David Murphy | Digital Marketing, Marketing, Print Sales, Sales, Social Media
LinkedIn advertising is an expensive form of B2B digital advertising. It’s also one of the most cost-efficient. Wait, how can it be both? The answer arises by looking beyond the cost of placing an ad and the potential ROI. LinkedIn ads aren’t for every print...
by David Murphy | Digital Marketing, Marketing, Operations
A print industry friend of mine asked my opinion about how he should budget for marketing this year. I’ll share with you, my Print Media Centr friends, what I told him. While there isn’t a single right answer, there are some directional guidelines that companies use...
by David Murphy | #seo4printers, Digital Marketing, Digital Media, Marketing, Search Marketing
Getting your print company’s website organically ranked by search engines is one of the toughest digital marketing challenges you face. You have hundreds or thousands of competing businesses trying to beat you in the race to be found in Google searches for keywords...
by Kelly Mallozzi | Digital Marketing, Digital Media, Girls Who Print, Marketing, Social Media
This year, for #PrintHERstoryMonth at #GirlsWhoPrint, I had the honor of running the social channels (Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram) and posting in the LinkedIn Group as we celebrated over 50 women who shared their print origin stories and advice for advancing in...
by Tod Cordill | Digital Marketing, Marketing
When creating their website, most companies pay a large amount of attention to website design and content. But it’s the things you can’t see, such as how pages are structured and how Google measures your website quality, that often have the most significant impact on...
by David Murphy | Customer Communication, Digital Marketing, Digital Media, Marketing, Print Sales, Sales
Google “what is content marketing” and you’ll get bewildered by a dozen definitions. Some say that content marketing is really anything you publish on your website, blog, or social media. Nope: too broad. Here’s my definition: Good content marketing...
by Tod Cordill | Digital Marketing, Digital Print, Direct Mail, Marketing, Print & Digital, Social Media
Chick-fil-A Direct Mail Case Study – 10 Years Later I was just talking to a client this morning about using direct mail to drive consumers to retail stores and a Chick-fil-A integrated marketing campaign that I read about several years back came to mind. A quick web...
by David Murphy | Digital Marketing, Digital Media, Marketing, Mobile Media, Mobile Shopping, Operations, Print Sales, Sales
My name is David Murphy and I love to help printers bring value to new customers. In fact, it’s been my passion for over three decades (and I’m still young!) When I was in high school in the ‘80s, my friends worked in restaurants and mall stores. Those jobs were...
