by Sandy Hubbard | Email Marketing, Marketing, Printers
Email is a basic tool, but it is very powerful and has decades of marketing practices behind it. It’s perfect for a printing company on a budget. Using affordable and strategic marketing tools such as email on a regular schedule will help plant your brand firmly and...
by Sandy Hubbard | Email Marketing, Marketing
When I was a kid, there was this thing called the Helping Hand Program. If you were hurt, lost or in danger, you could knock on the door of a house that had a handprint sign in the window. Kids knew that the family with a handprint sign would watch over you while they...
by Sandy Hubbard | Email Marketing, Future of Print, Print & Digital
Many printers I talk to act like email is some fancy new invention. It’s been around for 25 years as a business tool. It’s going to be around in the future. It’s here to stay. Email should be a key item in your printing sales toolkit: Setting...
by Tod Cordill | Email Marketing, Marketing
The cause and effect of business and marketing best practices are not always clear and obvious. But these unusual times provide lessons that make the cause and effect of these practices painfully clear. Don’t pretend it’s business as usual We all want normalcy....
by Sandy Hubbard | Email Marketing, Marketing, Operations, Print Services, Sales
How do you communicate with your customers? Are you stuck in one channel or are you mixing it up and keeping it spicy? Many printers prefer to handle customer communication through email. Email is quick, immediate, efficient and affordable. As a way to stay in touch...
by Sandy Hubbard | Email Marketing, Marketing, Print & Digital, Print Media, Print Sales
Create a three-cornered marketing communications powerhouse to open doors, get recognized, and make yourself indispensable. I am a huge believer in print plus email as a powerhouse marketing combination, and I write about that topic a lot. When you add a third...
by Sandy Hubbard | Blogging, Email Marketing, Print Media
Should we use seasonal content in print and email if we want people to engage, remember and even share? The answer is YES if the seasonal content is fresh, original, memorable and has a unique point of view. Here’s how to add a seasonal element to your...
by Tod Cordill | Email Marketing, Marketing, Marketing Automation, Trends
The guys over at chiefmartec have been tracking marketing technologies since 2011. Over that time their list of marketing tech solutions has grown from 150 to over 7,000. That’s 7,000 solutions out there competing for a piece of the marketing budget. This presents a...
by Sandy Hubbard | Data, Direct Mail, Email Marketing, Marketing Automation
Print, text, and email are a delicious mix in this restaurant marketing campaign. To gain new customers (and keep them coming back), ask for permission to interact in all the places where they spend time — and then reward them lavishly. I’d like to share an...
by Tod Cordill | Automation, Email Marketing, Marketing
Over the past few months, we’ve discussed calendar based and behavior based email marketing. But there’s a classic chicken or the egg problem… how do you grow your list of emails in the first place? Use email capture forms to transform your website from a digital...
by Tod Cordill | Direct Mail, Email Marketing, Marketing, Marketing Automation
Last month I discussed calendar based emails, which is sending emails when you want to send them. These calendar-based emails might be a newsletter sent at a regular schedule or a campaign when you want to market an event. While you may target part of your audience to...
by Tod Cordill | Email Marketing, Marketing, Marketing Automation, Operations, Tips, Tools
Email marketing falls into two basic categories: calendar-based or behavior based. Calendar based emails are sent based on your marketing calendar and are not triggered by a particular behavior. Examples of calendar-based emails include: Email newsletter Marketing...
