What’s Your Priority? Sales Revenue or New Lead Generation?
What do you think is the highest-priority marketing objective of print businesses today? To drive sales revenue or drive lead generation? Recent research shows that lead gen is #1. This was surprising to me at first because you can’t pay the bills with leads. But looking at it another way, new leads are the fuel […]
How To Get Your Print Business Ranked High in Google Search
Getting your print company’s website organically ranked by search engines is one of the toughest digital marketing challenges you face. You have hundreds or thousands of competing businesses trying to beat you in the race to be found in Google searches for keywords like “printer” or “printing company” or some variation of a printing product. […]
An Important Message from Realtors to Printers: Location, Location, Location
Google loves to reward local businesses. And, Google wants to deliver accurate local results to those doing online searches. For that reason, printing businesses should take advantage of an easy and effective way to be found online: LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! Location marketing shows local customers you are interested in them! Yet so many printers do […]
Ask These 3 Questions to Drastically Improve Future Print Sales
There are three questions to ask new customers that will DRASTICALLY improve your print sales. You must learn to ask “How, what and why” in your sales conversations. HOW: Let’s start with the first one, the door opener. If we’re feeling shy about this process, it’s certainly not prying to ask: “HOW did you find […]
Decoder Ring: Understanding How To Make Your Web Presence Work For You
Recent inspiration has given light to something I think will help many of those roaming the Printerverse. In the past I have talked about how to understand the different areas of print, leverage the lessons learned and make sure you are being relevant. Then it struck me – as I wrote in a previous article […]
Printers Sabotage Their Marketing Success With These 7 Phrases
Have you heard yourself say any of these 7 self-limiting phrases? If so, you’re holding your company back from print + digital success! Do you put up roadblocks to an effective marketing program because you are a printer? Do you avoid using digital options and only use printed communication? Do you underestimate the power of […]
Good Housekeeping is not Search Engine Optimization (It’s What People Expect)
Customers expect your website to be fresh, logical, attractive and professional. If it’s not, you need to do some housekeeping. Housekeeping is not SEO. Like deep cleaning the pressroom or tidying up the landscaping around your print shop, “good housekeeping” means getting your website in order. It should be done on a scheduled basis, like changing […]
Printers! Is A Google Penalty Causing A Drop In Your Web-to-Print Profits?
Sometimes printers hire me to write content for their website because there has been an unexplained decline in their web-to-print profits or a change in traffic to their print ordering portal. They think they need to freshen up their content. They want to try something new. Back up. They’ve seen a drop in their online business. […]
The Big Picture of SEO: Why Owners MUST be on the Team
In an ideal world, your printing company would have a team of trained specialists working on your website at all times: Web designer, who designs what the visitor will see and how they experience it. Programmer, who understands the inner workings of the website and works with the designer to create a logical and attractive […]
Your Email Newsletter Sends a Strong Signal to Google
One of the lesser-known benefits of a regular email newsletter campaign is to prime the pump on your prospect’s Google searches. I’m using “Google Search” intentionally, since Gmail, Google+ and Chrome users who are signed in will get different search results than those not using a Google product or not signed in. Here’s how […]
SEO for Printers: The Low-Hanging Fruit Your Competitor May Be Plucking
If you’re using SEO tactics to attract prospects to your website, you may be overlooking low-hanging fruit: Your own company name. If your company name is unique — not part of a chain or a large brand — then you might expect that your website would automatically rank first in online search results for that […]
SEO for Printers: Strategy Has to Come First
I know a business owner who spent thousands — many thousands — to have his website “search engine optimized” by stuffing it with keywords. Problem was, there was nothing on his site written for real people, only for bots. Furthermore, the site was disorganized, ugly and confusing. Everything seemed so backward from what he […]
