by Kelly Mallozzi | Marketing, Print Sales, Sales
Most people who have been in sales for even a few short years have heard about The SALES FUNNEL. You might have first encountered a sales funnel the first time you were introduced to a CRM like Salesforce, where the opportunity manager helped you see how big your...
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 Camille Corr Chism | Marketing, Packaging
Packaging is designed to contain, protect, and transport products. Packaging provides a fourth purpose – to inform the consumer. The information on a package can be a deciding factor during the 7 seconds an average consumer spends to make a purchase decision. ...
by David Murphy | Marketing, Operations, Print Sales, Print Services, Sales
No. The answer is no, they don’t. Some of your employees are non-customer-facing so MAYBE it’s not necessary for them to learn your company’s pitch. Or MAYBE it is. What about your customer-facing employees? Your sales, customer service, and marketing staff? Do they...
by Pat McGrew | #PrintSampleTV, Direct Mail, Marketing, Print Sales, Print Services, Sales
Postcards are the lingua franca of communication. Even in today’s Instagram world, people send postcards when they travel. Businesses use them to find new customers and stay visible with current clients. Retailers use them to make offers and politicians use them to...
by Nichole Jones | #ProjectPeacock, Buyers, Creative, Design, Digital Print, Direct Mail, Education, Marketing, Packaging, Print Buying, Print Production, Project Peacock
These days good information is increasingly difficult to come by. Unless you already know what you’re looking for, you may have to dig through a few google pages to find the “right” information. Sure, my keywords will get me towards what I need…but after filtering...
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 Pat McGrew | #PrintSampleTV, Customer Communication, Marketing, Packaging, Print Sales, Print Services
When was the last time you played with a deck of cards? Real cards, not the online solitaire version? Over the last couple of years, I’ve found myself with decks of cards in my hands – real ones – that aren’t the traditional hearts, diamonds, spades, and clubs, but...
by Deborah Corn | #PrintSales, Buyers, Customer Communication, Featured, Marketing, Print Buying, Print Sales, Print Services, Sales
If you read my posts with any frequency or listen to the Print Buying UK v. USA Podcast co-hosted by me and Matthew Parker, you probably know I focus on helping printers create long-term relationships with print customers. I benefited from long-term relationships with...
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 Sandy Hubbard | Customer Communication, Marketing
Whether you bring in a pro to help you update your website — or do it yourself — there are 10 things to do before you hit the publish button. But first! I’d like to talk about one of my early clients. Mike Hasson was the founder of the Hasson Company, a...
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....
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