2016: The Year of Automated Relevance
I’ll never forget the first time I sat down with a Fortune 500 company to discuss the idea of implementing hyper-personalized direct mail marketing to the millions of people in their loyalty rewards program. They were the largest advocate for direct mail communications I had ever seen in my brief four years in printing sales, […]
110% Can’t Miss Totally True Predictions For 2016
Thank you for joining me for my pseudo-triumphant return to The Printerverse Blog Party. I know I tried to underpromise and overdeliver on the frequency of my contributions last year, but alas, I only underdelivered. But this is a new year, and a new me. And please forgive me that I am more than a little […]
#UKvUSA: Do Your Suppliers Suck?
Welcome to my monthly blogging duel with TEAM UK’s Matthew Parker. If you have been following along you can skip right to the post… and if you are just joining us, here is some background… Matthew and I haven’t always seen eye to eye when it comes to Print Buying. He comes from the UK procurement […]
2016 CMYK Manifesto: Pushing The Print Media Agenda
The Following Topics are Over and Done With in 2016! YOU, Yes, Still You! This was included in the 2015 CMYK Manifesto, but it’s obvious many didn’t take this advice to heart, so I’ll try again. If your marketing is based on telling people what you want them to know, and that “conversation” consists of […]
Print Takes Center Stage
Print is moving into the spotlight in cross media campaigns. Print has stepped into the spotlight and proved it plays with others. In every integrated campaign I’ve done, the key to success has been to create high quality content and engage with customers regularly. Print is a key part of this strategy. WHY PRINT Because […]
Survey Says Print Buyers Care More About Printers Than Price
A few weeks ago I sent out a short survey to my fellow print producers to get a quick temperature take on the things they care about, in order of importance. Matthew Parker and I will present the full results and what they mean to printers at HP’s 2016 Jetcomm Conference and again during Dscoop San Antonio, for […]
Three Ways To Effectively Maximize Your Twitter Reach
Depending upon what you do, and whom you are trying to engage with, Twitter can be a very powerful social media tool. I think of it as the funnel for all of my other communication channels. For Twitter to be effective, you have to have people following you who can see and share your information, […]
3 Things You Should Know About Marketing To Us Millennials
Millennial. A term first coined by Neil Howe and William Strauss in 1991 in their book “Generations” to describe the generation born between 1980 and 2000; however, the most common birth range for the generation also known as Generation Y is 1982-2000. Despite how much I loathe the term (I mean, does anyone really enjoy […]
[VIDEO] Meet the Movers and Shakers From the Inaugural thINK Conference in NYC
The first thINK Conference – appropriately called thINK First, was held in NYC Sept 8-10, 2015 in the Roosevelt Hotel in NYC. thINK is a “collaborative, independent community of peers, solutions partners and print industry experts that represent the fast-growing $3.5B inkjet market.” Oh, and they are Canon Solutions America customers as well. There is […]
[VIDEO] Post-Press Success: Winning With Finishing
This Graph Expo panel focuses on the wonderful world of finishing, and the ROI it can bring. Panelists: http://mollbrothers.com • http://hp.com/go/indigo.com • http://thefoilexperts.com • http://scodix.com – Hosted by Deborah Corn **Fastbind USA apologizes for missing this panel, but since they were busy signing contracts with new customers, they hope you understand! See how PUR/EVA and […]
[VIDEO] Digital Schmigital: Marketing Print to Millennials
This Graph Expo panel focuses on “The New Print Customers” – what they know, what they don’t, and how to keep them excited about print in an electronic world. Panelists from: http://dreamingincmyk.com • http://hp.com/go/indigo • http://www.chili-publish.com • http://hp.com/go/pagewidewebpress – Hosted by Deborah Corn
[VIDEO] An ROI River Runs Through It: Mapping Your Multi-Channel Marketing Streams
This Graph Expo panel focuses on helping printers market themselves through print + additional channels by sharing experience and results. Panelists from: http://arifiq.com • http://www.avantisystems.com • http://piworld.com • http://profitableprintreelationships.com • http://xerox.com/production – Hosted by Deborah Corn