by Deborah Corn | Customer Communication, Digital Media, Featured, Future of Print, Marketing, Print Media, Print Sales, Print Services, Sales, Tips, Trends
Greetings Citizens of the Printerverse and welcome to a New Year! For the first time in 3 years, it feels like an actual NEW year and not a continuation of what I refer to as the uni-year. The uni-year covers anything that happened between March 2020 and December 31,...
by Deborah Corn | Buyers, Events, Featured, Future of Print, Print Buying, Print Media, Print Production, Print Sales, Print Services, Printers
Greetings Citizens of the Printerverse! Another year for the printing industry is in the books. It seems like it zipped by although I can remember how slow the days and weeks felt at the beginning of the year. That is all just a blur now. So much has changed this...
by Sandy Hubbard | Marketing, Print Media
Gong! The clock strikes midnight and a new year is here. Are you ready to build your print business from the inside so it works better on the outside? Working on the inside of the business sounds lofty and philosophical, but what does it look like in action? Let’s...
by Deborah Corn | Buyers, Customer Communication, Featured, Print Buying, Print Media, Print Production, Print Sales, Print Services, Printers, Sales
Print has always been a potent channel for direct marketing and communication, and one of the safest. This is not new information to us. But recent events on Twitter including the image above sent out by ‘Nintendo America’ have sent shockwaves through the...
by Sandy Hubbard | Marketing, Operations, Print Media
End-of-year business planning is a time of opportunity. It’s a chance to make your print business more powerful and strategic. It should happen across all departments and be handled systematically and proactively. Is that how fiscal year-end works in your...
by Deborah Corn | Buyers, Customer Communication, Featured, Print Buying, Print Media, Print Production, Print Sales, Print Services, Printers, Sales
If print customers are thinking of you as a print vendor and not as a print partner, you are in serious trouble. You are interchangeable. You are competing on price. You are a number on a spreadsheet. You aren’t top of mind for recommendations or referrals. You are on...
by Deborah Corn | Creative, Customer Communication, Featured, Girls Who Print, International Print Day, Print & Digital, Print Media, Print Production, Printerverse
The global print community will gather to celebrate Girls Who Print Day on October 13, and International Print Day on October 26, hosted online by Print Media Centr September 28, 2022 — The Printerverse – Two print industry milestone events hosted and produced...
by Deborah Corn | Featured, Labels, Packaging, Print Media, Print Sales, Print Services, Sales, Trends
On August 6th, I attended KushCon Tampa with Will Crabtree – aka #WillThePrinter, co-host of the PrinterChat series on Podcasts from the Printerverse and owner of Tampa Printer, Gorilla Gurus and Sign Parrot, and Jim Cox, General Manager of Tampa Printer. KushCon is...
by Sandy Hubbard | Digital Print, Events, Marketing, Print Media, Print Services
Are you focused on recruiting new members and getting buy-in from your prospects? Try using variable print when holding your recruiting events. Personalizing the marketing package helps you gain trust and commitment. I’ll give you two examples of how to combine...
by Deborah Corn | Digital Media, Featured, Future of Print, Operations, Print Media, Print Sales, Print Services, Sales, Trends
The viable future of print business is dependent upon how print is used, and what it’s used for. We saw this firsthand in 2020. If printing wasn’t essential, it wasn’t produced. And when things started to open, ‘essential‘ was applied to the spending, not the...
by Pat McGrew | #PrintSampleTV, Marketing, Print Media, Print Sales, Print Services, Publishing, Sales
Many years ago, as we were getting ready for Drupa in 2012 one of the sales team members I was working with in Europe arrived with boxes of a very cool magazine, But it wasn’t just any magazine – it was one that had versions based on the target recipient. That...
by Sandy Hubbard | Finance, Marketing, Operations, Print Media
A bittersweet side effect of my consulting work with clients is that owners sell their print businesses when they hit a pre-determined level of success. That comes about at my prompting. I have only myself to blame. You see, at the beginning of our relationship, I ask...
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