Archive for May, 2008

Here a full color printing resorse worth a look

Saturday, 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

Monday, 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

Monday, 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?

Friday, 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.

Thursday, 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.

Thursday, 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?

Thursday, 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.

New changes to the shipping of heavyweight products such as printing.

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

As if there hasn’t been enough changes to color printing in the last  12 months.  It seems like we’re headed for some more changes. Here the things that need to be thought of when you’re selling printing across state lines.  Since fuel charges have been on the rise, various different carriers such as UPS FedEx Yellow Freight etc, have been increasing the shipping charges.

One of the things that I like to suggest some I full color printing manufacturing companies is to use a selling approach that will hopefully diffused objection of paying for shipping. What may customers calling up looking for various different printer products and one of their argument is as bike purchases from you and I live in Arizona and your businesses in Fort Lauderdale.  The price and the shipping is not to make it worth while for me to order this printed product from you I will order from a local company or local printing firm to get that product. This is the rubato I like to use.

Being that the fact you are located in Arizona.  One of the things that you say when purchasing from our local printing company here in Florida, does you don’t pay any sales tax.  Being that are printing us at such a low rate than you could possibly purchase locally and that save you money won’t turn.

I find this to be a very effective way to move through that objection of not wanting to purchase from an out-of-state printing company.  Because the increasing course of shipping.

This is a very effective thing to do, whether you’re selling full-color brochures or full-color catalogs. Virtually you can use this for all of your color printing services that you offer is for  all the resistance.  Potential clients may be using to get out of purchasing with you.

 You can also use this in your marketing that you send out nationwide that when they purchase from you they save sales tax.