by Deborah Corn | Buyers, Creative, Customer Communication, drupa, Education, Events, Featured, Marketing, Operations, Print Production, Print Sales, Print Services, Sales, Tips, Trends
Do you see print everywhere? Do you count down the days until the new printing press or finishing equipment arrives at your print shop? Do you know what Pantone color the sky is? Do you make vacation plans around printing industry events or incorporate them? Do you...
by Deborah Corn | Digital Print, Events, Inkjet, Print Production, Print Sales, Print Services, Software and Systems, Trade Shows, Video, Workflow
This international print industry event showcases innovations and further developments in high-speed digital print and finishing HUNKELER INNOVATION DAYS FEBRUARY 27 – MARCH 2, 2023 • LUCERNE, SWITZERLAND Learn more here HUNKELER LONG AND PROSPER! Deborah Corn...
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 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 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 | #ProjectPeacock, Buyers, Creative, Customer Communication, Design, Education, Featured, Marketing, Print Buying, Print Production, Print Sales, Print Services, Project Peacock, Video
The secret to earning referrals and long-term loyalty with print customers for their printing and print marketing needs is really no secret. Creative collaboration is the key to success. Collaboration can take many forms. On the lowest end, we have information...
by Deborah Corn | Customer Communication, Design, Education, Featured, Operations, Print Buying, Print Production, Print Sales, Print Services, Sales, Training
The summer is approaching and that typically means a little slow down for most print businesses, but honestly who knows anymore. We will collect metrics as we live through it and reflect on this and past years, like most situations since Covid kicked off. So, I’ll...
by Deborah Corn | Buyers, Customer Communication, Employment, Featured, Jobs, Marketing, Operations, Print Buying, Print Production, Print Sales, Print Services, Sales
Making print sales isn’t easy these days. Supply chain issues are disrupting the process and the ability to promise everything will be ok with 100% certainty. This situation can make even the most seasoned print customers nervous especially if they work as a print...
by Pat McGrew | #PrintSampleTV, Marketing, Operations, Print Production, Print Sales, Print Services, Sales, Slider
A few weeks ago, we had a chance to create a bucket of new episodes of Print Sample TV! We have some cool things coming, including a look at some new options for enhancing print with foil, new inkjet technologies, and some great ideas for how to create your own print...
by Camille Corr Chism | Design, Marketing, Packaging, Print Production, Print Services
Startups juggle many things when launching products. It is a combination of taking care of business and a labor of love to make sure every detail is just right. While there is a great deal of excitement around tweaking the product, finding customers, marketing, and...
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...
