Is This the Decade of Branding?

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The wide range of marketing skills and talents fall into two categories of people, Marketing Creatives and Marketing Technologists. Marketing creatives include branding specialists, designers, creative directors, content writers, and copywriters. While the creative side of marketing has always been critical, technical and analytical skills became more important with the rise of digital marketing. Digital […]

Is Your Website Meeting Your Goals?

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Over the past few months, I’ve written about the changes in Google search results pages and how they impact companys’ search performance. There are many ways people may learn about suppliers. Ranking high in search results may not be essential for every company. But a company’s website is important in most buying processes. Goals for […]

Should Your Print Business Pay to Advertise with Mark Zuckerberg?

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Part 1 of a 2-part series  Paid digital advertising is one of the most effective and cost-efficient ways for a print business to reach large targeted audiences of print buyers in a short period of time. Yet for a lot of owners of smaller print businesses, paying to advertise on Google, Facebook, or LinkedIn just […]

How Featured Snippets Can Improve Your Search Results

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Many online platforms aim to keep you on the site as long as possible in the hope that you will eventually click a link in a digital advertisement. Social media platforms do this by entertaining and displaying content that their algorithms predict you’ll spend time engaging with. Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok are masters at this. […]

Combine the Powers of Digital Printing with Digital Marketing

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If you’re like most print service providers, you are trying to grow your business. You want new customers while strengthening the loyalty of your current ones. Beyond those simple goals, you also want to expand your share of your customers’ print wallet by increasing order size, building order frequency, and cross-selling your capabilities portfolio. Overall, […]

How Google’s New Search Results Page Impacts Your Search Performance

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Google continually makes changes to search results pages, walking a fine line between providing a good user search experience and increasing search ad revenue. The coveted #1 search position for any particular search term may not even appear above the fold, which is the first screen. You may need to scroll down almost two screens […]

Build Back Better Brings Print Customers

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This is not a political post. It’s a financial one for design, print, and marketing pros. At the end of 2020, the United States Construction Industry was valued at $1.36 Trillion Dollars. Even with the pandemic, private residential and non-residential construction had record-breaking figures. Up until 2020, the construction industry employed more than seven million […]

The Real Cost of Print Customer Acquisition

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What does it cost you to get a new lead to your website from your digital marketing campaigns? The cost equation depends on a list of variables, such as your timing, your offer, your target audience, your competition, and your unique value proposition. Success also depends on factors like the creativity and appeal of your […]

How A Customer Reference Program Can Help You Sell More Print

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This blog is part 2 of a 3-part series: Maximize New Opportunities Through Current Customers How many print buying prospects have you quoted that say they want to “think about it.” Maybe they do, maybe they don’t, but delayed buying behavior like this often occurs when the prospect is on the fence. They aren’t quite […]

Direct Mail Verification: Anatomy of an Address Verification Program

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People working from home create challenges for the B2B marketer that wants to utilize direct mail. This blog post addresses this common problem and provides a real-life example to obtain people’s preferred mailing addresses. The goal of this article is to: Provides a concrete example that helps you better understand marketing automation; and Provides a […]

Top Ten Tips for Email Marketing Best Practices

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Many printing companies rely on email as their primary communications tool for reaching customers and prospects. Generally, email is used more than phone calls and face-to-face meetings combined. But email is hard and it’s getting harder. As old and omnipresent as it is, mail as a medium is untrusted. The reasons are clear: 94% of […]

Are QR Codes Being Used Effectively In Direct Mail?

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Last month’s Have QR Codes Finally Reached Their Glory Days? Blog post illustrated the resurgence of the QR code in marketing. When looking through my mail the other day I decided to take a look at how companies are using the QR codes in their direct mail. The following direct mails were analyzed from both […]