Did you know that you can save money on your print marketing and increase your marketing effectiveness at the same time? You might equate saving money with choosing less expensive paper or printing less, but it’s really about targeting and optimization. Here are three...
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Repetition Wins the Race
Brand recognition is of paramount importance when building relationships with your clients. Repetitively viewing your company’s name will allow your company to subconsciously be included into your clients buying strategy. According to marketing consulting firm The...
You Don’t Need to be a Computer Geek to Create Successful One to One Campaigns
Develop a one-to-one (1:1) on-going campaign for your company with ease. It used to be that, in order to create powerful 1:1 print campaigns, you had to be a combination marketing wiz and database master. But as these applications have developed, software developers...
I+E+E+O – 4 Components of Marketing Success
The layout and design of your marketing piece must be aesthetically pleasing, but the information you deliver is far more important. Effective messaging “interrupts” and engages the prospect, educates and offers additional information to facilitate decision-making,...
Print Powers Social Media
If you think social media and print marketing are competitors, think again. While the two may compete for your dollars, in terms of accomplishing your marketing goals, social media and print marketing can be highly symbiotic. Let’s look at five ways print can help...
One to One Marketing is Easier Than You Think
One of the biggest misconceptions about one to one (personalized) printing is that marketers don’t have the data to drive it. This might be true in some cases, but it also can be more perception than reality. Often, marketers have more data than they realize. Maybe...
Taking Stock of Images
Each issue of Consumer Reports magazine includes a page called “Selling It: Goofs, Glitches and Gotchas,” a round–up of advertising, marketing and packaging “bloopers.” Occasionally, they show ads that feature the same models appearing in promotional materials for...
Print’s Role in the Digital Revolution
Technology is cool. It opens up a whole new world of marketing opportunities—email blasts, pURLs, PDA pushdowns, RSS feeds, tweets. But what happens to your message when the BlackBerry battery is drained, or your format isn’t compatible with your prospect’s device?...
Use Print to Boost Your Online Presence
Everywhere you look these days, you’re bombarded with data about how much money marketers are putting into their Internet presences. E-mail marketing. Web site development. Search engine optimization. Banner ads. Social networking. This creates the impression that...
Psychology of Color in Print
When you design a piece that will be printed in color, you have to make decisions on the colors to use. Rather than just selecting the first color swatch your mouse happens to click upon, it pays to think about the impact your color choices have on the end product....