by Deborah Corn | Customer Communication, Featured, Marketing, Operations, Print Sales, Print Services, Sales
If you have watched as many movies and TV series as I have since March of last year, ‘vig’ may be a term you are familiar with. Vig … is slang for vigorish. Vig is the juice, the squeeze, the charge that a businessperson gets for helping broker a transaction or...
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 Sandy Hubbard | Customer Communication, Data, Marketing, Operations, Print Sales, Print Services, Sales
When the magazine I ran for 22 years closed its doors, the owners offered me all the business data and customer lists for free. They were not going to do anything with it, and everything would be purged by the end of the tax year. So I said yes. Saying yes not only...
by Pat McGrew | #PrintSampleTV, Marketing, Operations, Paper, Print Sales, Print Services
One of the early segments of PrintSampleTV featured an important marriage of content and paper embodied in a restaurant menu. Full disclosure! Our family owns three restaurants and because we are also in the print industry, we wanted to balance our needs with what...
by Deborah Corn | Customer Communication, Featured, Future of Print, Marketing, Operations, Print Buying, Print Media, Print Sales, Print Services, Printerverse, Sales, Tips
Greetings Citizens of the Printerverse and welcome to a New Year! It is a new year, right? The calendar has changed but, in many ways, it feels like 2020 is still lingering. This annual post has traditionally focused on what is in front of us, but honestly, there is...
by Camille Corr Chism | Consumables, Marketing, Packaging, Print Services, Sustainability
Packaging and printing: it’s more than what meets the eye. In today’s world, packaging is everywhere and used for almost everything — be it the cereal box in the local grocery store or the packaging used to contain your dreaded COVID test kit. With that said,...
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...
by Tod Cordill | Digital Marketing, Direct Mail, Marketing
Most visitors to come, view one or a few pages, and go away. These website visitors are anonymous – their identities are unknown. For a business-to-business website, it is common for <1% of website visitors to fill out a form and reach out. 3% would be...
by Pat McGrew | #PrintSampleTV, Buyers, Creative, Customer Communication, Design, Marketing, Print Buying, Print Sales, Sales, Tips
Over the decades I’ve developed a love affair with print samples. It started back in high school when I worked in a print shop that had been in business since the 1700s. We ran a web press in house, though the newspapers were done over at Princeton Packet. Promotional...
by Sandy Hubbard | Customer Communication, Employment, Marketing, Operations, Print Services
It’s the pandemic, people! Marketing departments in printing businesses — and in your client’s company — are being disrupted. Employees are being reassigned, laid off, taking paid time off, or pivoting to address urgent priorities. In this environment,...
by Tod Cordill | Direct Mail, Marketing, Marketing Automation
Last year I wrote about how print technologies are integrating with other digital marketing technology tools. While these technologies are becoming more mature and easier to implement, they still are not commonly used. There are two primary ways that digital marketing...
by Sandy Hubbard | Creative, Marketing, Print Media
Doing a small project — even one with a ridiculously cheap budget — can be a way to show customers that creative marketing gets direct, measurable results. Having some fun in the process makes you endearing and spotlights you as a preferred vendor. Helping...
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