Innovation, Personalization And The Cloud + More Predictions For Print In 2015
Greetings Earthlings, Prink Geeks and Citizens of the Printerverse! It’s a new year and while I am sure you have been planning for it, it’s always nice to hear some print prognostications from a wide range of industry pros. You can use this info to validate your direction or adjust it, seek out events to help […]
Print Media Centr Visitors Pick The Best Posts Of 2014
Greeting Earthlings, CMYK Enthusiasts, and Print Media Centr Readers… Happy New Year! It’s a brand new year and no better time to look back and share some 2014 history with you. Here is a bit of statistical site info and some quick links for the top 10 posts on PMC in 2014! PMC attracted readers from all over the […]
Christmas Card Phones Friends And Family When It’s Opened
via springwise.com Telecoms company O2 has created a Christmas card with an integrated SIM, capable of making a call between sender and recipient. Christmas has always been a time for sharing and connecting with family, and every year marketing agencies across the globe take it upon themselves to remind consumers of this fact. Once in […]
2014: My Year Of Print Events
Prognostications for 2015 will be coming along shortly, so to prepare for that I’m taking a brief moment to reflect on the last 340ish days – well just the Event highlights! I attended my first Dscoop and successfully executed “Occupy Scodix” establishing an unauthorized home base for my PMC operations in their booth – literally. […]
Take Your Email-to-Print Campaign from Stinky to Sensational with these 5 Caveats
Everything’s Rosy When Print Stars in your Email-to-Print Campaign When combining print with email in a marketing campaign, email as the door opener and print as the sales closer. Print becomes the conversion mechanism. It infuses the recipient with your sales magic. (I address the sales aspect of email marketing in my previous columns.) For best results, […]
Print Ad Drives “LIKES” To Your Facebook Page
It’s not surprising to find out this awesome ad was created in Brazil. In 2014 they have come up with some very inventive uses for print – including the BBQ Bible and the Kid Tracker. This one has really gone way out of the box they were already out of, by allowing readers who registered for a […]
Executive Outlook at Graph Expo Unveils Freeze Frame of Today’s Printing Industry
Photo by Melissa DiVietri Conference Sets a Pivot Point for Futurists, Analysts and Practitioners to Access a 360 View of Industry The Executive Outlook conference took place the first morning of Graph Expo 2014, setting the stage for the equipment, products and services displayed on the trade show floor. The session — entitled “Print That Performs” — […]
What to Do When Your Email + Print Campaign is TOO Successful
Thinking about combining digital communications with print? Careful — it’s a potent mixture! Here’s a client project where we had to put on the brakes because our response rate was higher than we could handle: We helped a printing company plan and promote a business anniversary celebration that would feature live music and a catered […]
How to Reinvent Yourself and Find New Markets in the Digital Age
By Jeff Lewis Early in my career, I had a job in Manhattan. Living in the suburbs of New York City, I had the same routine every day: drive to the train station, take the train to another train, take that train to mid-town. I’d work an 8-hour day and then do the reverse commute. […]
Cater To Customer Preferences By Adding Personalized Print To Your Email Campaigns
Email plus Print is a proven combination. Take it a step farther by personalizing the printed piece, and you put your customer’s preferences foremost in the experience. And yet, in discussions with clients about this powerful pairing, clients often say: “If I send a direct mail piece based on intelligence gathered from an email campaign, my […]
Photoshop CC update improves font search and integration
Even though Adobe rolled out new Photoshop features in January of this year, Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud) 2014 just added new updates on several new features, including more flexibility with fonts. Many of our PMC readers are beta testers and may have seen and used these features already, but now they’re now official for your customers […]
A Few Quick Tips For Choosing The Best Paper For Your Printing
At the end of the day, all of the meticulous file creation and prepress preparation we undergo during a project wont matter unless you have factored in BOTH the press, and the paper you are printing on. The presses are a much bigger and technical story, so let’s talk about the paper! Without a doubt, paper is part […]
