It takes made money. When thinking about marketing and promotion.

June 16th, 2008

The fact is that the reason that most malting campaigns fail in my opinion is lack of funding. As well as an unrealistic expectation on what that marketing should actually yields as an investment. The fact is that the reason why most marketing campaigns fails because they are grossly under budget, as well as generally the person in charge of marketing puts the Bosch on a before it’s got the ability to succeed. That’s why when I tell people when they’re about to do some type of a full color printing campaign generally geared to it’s new and existing customers.  They need to be in the game consistently. When I mean about this is the need to continue to their marketing on an ongoing basis again and again and again. To me it’s all about frequency. People remember first what they saw last. I tell people that are thinking about doing a mass mail are.  Here is a criteria I tell on the follow. One is get a big postcard, the biggest postcard you possibly can, which is a 6 x 11.5 laid to create as much as you possibly can with a specific dollar amount you have left.  When it comes to marketing and advertising is very important to get the most exposure possible at the same time, you limiting your risk. And I think is very important to use full color process when doing this.

Are you over paying for your full-color printing?

June 12th, 2008

It seems like this ever a changing technology has been a wonderful windfall for businesses in the market to purchase full-color printing.  On a regular basis as technology moves higher and higher the price point for full-color printing has dropped dramatically. 10 years ago 5000 full-color postcards would of course you somewhere in the area of $1200-$1500. That same product is now being sold in various different places all over the Internet anywhere from $175-$350. There are probably some chop shops that will do even cheaper. I think this saying you get what you pay for when it comes to full-color printing is 150% accurate. I don’t care what anyone tells me if you are purchasing 5000 full-color postcards $175 it’s not possible that they could be doing anything at the level of quality control. This is what’s referred to in the commercial printing industry is hanging them banging. What this refers to is that they hang the color plates on the print press and then a bang out the job as fast as humanly possible which includes the printing of the product as well as the cutting of the product.  Basically what hands as if your job comes out with the colors messed up of the cuts messed up the printing company turns around and says I can’t do nothing for you man. This is what they refer to his gang run printing and whether you like it or not you get what you get.  I feel that this is why it’s better to spend a little bit extra money and get a superior product as well as compliments willing to stand behind their full-color printing.

Changing your companys foot print and go green on your color printing as well as looking Good.

June 3rd, 2008

One of the fears of many companys is how to get a class look on all of your full color printing and still use paper products that will be well recive in the consumers mind.

The fact is that almost all the cunsumers in the market places are very receptive to all marketing and promocnal full color printing that use recycle paper and green inks. The fact is the more comercal color printing companys push these plant health products the faster they will catch on.

Next time you are looking to do some full color printing for you corperation look to go green. They say little is the new big, and now green full color printing is the new BIG. Green color prnting is in big time.

You can work all of this into - your companys - 1.) Color Business Cards  2.) full color book printing  3.) Color Brochure Printing

Here a full color printing resorse worth a look

May 31st, 2008

there is a new directory worth looking at. The name of it is -

www.freeprintingdirectoryonline.com

The thing that I like about it is, if  your looking for a printing company and were in the USA and for a certen product as well a printing company that makes this product in your area. You have mean different way of finding the product you wish to buy at this printing vendor website. You should look at and live a post on full color printing news and let me know way you think. It also has the ability to look at the different companys that poduct these products on the home page of the site in catorgares scuch as color postcards, color catalogs, Calanders, color brochure, book printers, ect

Full Color Calendar Printing

May 19th, 2008

Have you designed a full color calendar that you now need printed? You need a quality printing company that can guide you to used the right paper stock and binding to produce quality full color calendars. For full color calendar printing, we recommend http://www.preferredprint.com/.

Book Printing Services

May 19th, 2008

If you have written a book and need it published, then you need to find a quality book printing company. Are you going to have pictures and/or graphics in your book, and if  so, with they be in color? For one color, two color, three color, and full color book printing services, we recommend http://www.preferredprint.com/.

Could you imagine a world without full color printing?

May 2nd, 2008

Here’s some of the things challenging the commercial printing industry as we know it.

1.) I don’t think that anyone in the printing industry has even thought about the fact that all of the printing materials that they receive such as ink as well as paper needs to be moved by local and national trucking industries.

As a result of this is definite accords the supply of paper and ink to be hit with higher prices resulting in price climbs for both printed products as well as paper. This potentially could be harming for many different facets of the commercial printing industry. Such as companies alike print brokers, as well as the manufacturers themselves.

This could potentially cause a ripple effect throughout the whole entire printing industry.

This problem actually goes far and beyond just the commercial printing industry.  It also relates to basically all business items products as small as pens and pencils. It is a strong possibility that as you go to purchase your products from various different office supply companies is a very good chance that all of these companies will start to increase their prices across the board.  Based on high diesel and gasoline prices throughout the country.

There’s a great book that was published sometime ago called who moved my cheese. I think as a country as well as the citizens within this country we need to start thinking of alternative ways to create the necessary need without taking down the natural resources that we’ve been squandering for so many years.

I think the companies that are on the forefront of this recycling revolution will be ultimately it for front runners.  In this forever changing global marketplace.

Creating an effective full-color marketing piece.

May 1st, 2008

One of things that I like to do when I’m creating a strong call to action for some type of marketing piece such as a full-color postcard, full-color catalog, full-color brochure or, full-color pocket folder.

What I like to do generally suppose a question such as -

need business?

This is the headline that I like to use one on looking to get someone’s attention.  I feel as if I can get someone’s attention with a headline and there’s a good chance that they may read into the ad.  If they read into the ad is a good chance I may just catch them.

And the thing about asking a question as it actually ends up entering the subconscious of the person that you’re asking a question to when they may just need exactly what it is that you’re offering at that moment time.

One of the things I see as a deficiency for commercial printers.

May 1st, 2008

One of things that I noticed over the years when I’ve tutored various different commercial printers is they actually follow their own advice. What I mean by this is very often there in a position to pitch various different companies on various different marketing products. These products may vary from full color postcards to full color catalogs full-color pocket folders, etc. I sat and then I sat in on various different color printing companies and heard them discuss with clients various different things that they can do to increase their sales. By using these various different full-color products.  The thing is you would think that a full color printing company would actually utilize their own advice.

How often have you heard the advice do as I say not as I do.

I have to tell you over the years I have very often unconsciously done exactly just that.

See the thing is is that as a general manager, the CEO of a major printing company you’re able to see various different clients come in with various different ideas purchase things like full color catalogs.  Sometimes in the upwards of 45,000 units, and then turn around and do a direct mail piece, mailing out all 45,000 units, and with the right mailing lists, a company with the right creativity of that full-color catalog.  Their sales explode.

Nobody could come up with a better concept for four color printing than a commercial printer could this to me is obviously yet we and the commercial printing industry are busy doing work for other people.  And we almost never get around the time to doing the marketing that we need to do for ourselves.

Have you been tracking a direct mail responses?

May 1st, 2008

One of the things that I’ve had my various different printing clients take on is to monitor how well their advertising and marketing is doing for them?

These are the techniques that we use to monitor all marketing pieces.

1.) One of the things that we use on a regular basis is we use a sheet of paper, which is referred to as a tick sheet.

The weighted as she works is that there is some different boxes where you can basi - cally put a checkmark next to.

The various different boxes have words next to him such as where did the client hear of your business from - and then basically you boxes next to that question, where US online through the search engine and many are the various different search engines next such as Google, Yahoo and MSN.

Then you have another box where it’ll say from a direct mail piece - one of the things I do is when I do direct mail pieces such as postcards I put a codon mail like a promotional code 175×35 this promotional code will allow me to figure out what direct mail piece they were calling on and then I’ll put a check next to the various different mail pieces that I’ve sent out.

The idea behind this is this where you can actually test and measure the direct mail pieces as well as whatever you’ve done for your company for search engine optimization as well as paper click advertising this way you can actually see what your return on investment is.

The more you do this, the more that you’ll be able to find out which marketing is actually working for your company, which is not.