Full Color Printing News

The printer of the week that I would like to do an exposé on is www.preferredprint.com this company has been around for approximately 10 years and everyone and anyone that I referred to this particular vendor always seems to come back satisfied happy and reach a large. They tell me working with this particular commercial printing company leaves them invigorated and recharged and revving to create more mocking concepts to put out to the masses.  I think the reason this is, is because of their attention to detail as well as they are unmatched customer service representatives.  That’s why tell all of my clients, whether you’re looking for full color catalogs, full-color posters, full-color pocket folders, full-color brochures, one to three color printing, or business cards, Preferred Print definitely can do little! And last but not least sent in one of forget that they have a superb graphic design department capable of not just doing a graphic design to your printing materials are also well-equipped in all of the latest web development techniques as well as search engine optimization.

One of the first resources like to tell you about for full color printing is www.freeprintingdirectoryonline.com this is a wonderful resource because it has virtually somewhere in the area 60,000 full color commercial printers in the United States. It’s nice because you can search various different ways, whether it’s by the city’s by the state that you’re in.  Its also very nice unit available to look for possible vendors, if you’re doing something like a road trip like let’s say that there are corporate headquarters that you work is in Cincinnati were you ever trade show that you’re going to be in New York City you can actually search for vendors in those local areas.  So this way, you can get your printing in New York City when you’re there for your trade show run printing it in Cincinnati and then having it shipped to that location. I believe this to be an essential tool for adding marketing director looking to purchase full color printing and/or marketing material for various different reasons.  It also has its listings broken down by specific products like let’s say brochure printing catalog printing full color services direct mailing services one to three color printing always different things are broken down good inside the resources of free printing directory online.com.

I’ve heard this many times over the years that the reason that most marketing and advertising campaigns fails because people are not consistent with their marketing and advertising campaigns. I see this very walked and obviously in the full color printing industry. People come out like gangbusters and talk about how they’re going to send massive amounts of direct mail pieces how they’re going to Mal out somewhere in area 5000 full-color postcards, week after week, month after month. Usually what happens is they come out of the gate very strong and and then stall out because they’re not getting the return on investment that they needed to continue to more could their campaigns. When I tell people when it comes to direct marketing and advertising I tell them that it’s very important to hit the same group of people lease 15 to 20 times.  And secondly it time and time again. I try to burn to the consciousness of every single business owned by the business with that the only way marketing advertising works as a singly brainwashing works it works to frequencies to more people see you in here about you, the more likely they are to make purchases. This goes with every and all marketing materials, I don’t care to do a mass mail is a brochures, business cards, catalogs, I don’t care what your marketing you need to hit them with frequency again and again and again.

One of the things I like to tell people on a regular basis is that what used to work in marketing and advertising and direct-mail campaigns 5 years ago is not prudent today.  So many times people get into a habit over the years of doing specific marketing techniques, and they think that that’s what’s going to continue to bring profits in today’s ever-changing highly competitive commercial printing industry. The fact is that what worked five years ago definitely has no bearing in today’s marketplace. Direct mail campaigns that use to be successful and having 3%maybe even 5% returns are today nonexistent.  This is why and my opinion need to become louder and bolder across the board in every single advertising medium available today.  One of the things that I have seen many come please do and do very successful is to work hard at search engine optimization coming up in all the major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN. My marquee clients that I do our work with and consulting is www.preferredprint.com this company in particular has really done a fantastic job at the level of search engine optimization and really cashing in on the Internet boom. I was at their office earlier today and they had a sale come in for NCR forms that was some one area of $1600. I have to say what an amazing sale was very proud of the owners and the management team to see that they’ve created a successful online store that people can shop at 24 hours a day seven days a week.  They have not stopped there by the way, they also have various different online printing stores under various different names competing over various different marketplaces. I never thought that I would say, but it’s actually probably more cost-effective for this company to do Internet marketing than it is for them to actually print of their own full color postcards into a mass mail it across the country to various different vendors and customers. Don’t get me wrong, if you have a nice full-color brochure and you want to mail it out to some existing client base.  I think that’s very important for the days of canvassing doing mass malice to various different companies that you don’t even know is really becoming a thing of the past.

One of the things that I’ve noticed from being the full color printing industry for many years is that a lot of client selects we just take their old for lack of a better word crappy designs.  Brochures that they have not made up back in the 1980’s and then go and spend thousands of dollars on having these things reprinted. If you’re going to go out and buy a brand-new full-color brochure or a full-color postcard full-color rack cards and US spend tons of money on full-color letterhead and envelopes.  It’s in your best interests to have a professional graphic designer re work and all of the graphic design and maybe even your logo if it needs a facelift.  If I’ve said it once I say it a million times.  The integrity of your graphic design will ultimately make or break your whole entire campaign.  It’ll make or break every single piece of marketing material that you have higher a quality graphic design firms to take care of all your graphic design needs.

One of the companies that I do a lot of work with www.preferredprint.com sells bulk color printing. Usually what this refers to is that when you order or something like a full-color postcard or a full-color catalog.  Rather than purchasing these things in small quantities of 500 or a 1000 you buy them in quantities of 5000 units and more.  When you figure from the standpoint of even something as simple as buying a full color business card lets set if 1000 business cards course you the consumer $99. Preferredprint.com sells you that same product for 5000 units for $125.  It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that once you go through 1000 cards and unique order another one you just pay twice the amount for the same full color business cards.  And over the course of the next four reorders you’ll paid a total of $500 for those business cards or you can purchase for only $125.  The same thing goes when you order something like a full-color rack cards or full color postcards, as well as full-color brochures.  This is why it’s also sounds a little bit crazy, but it’s actually cheaper for you to buy four color process printed material than it is for you to buy 1,2 or 3 color printing is crazy.  The sound of four color printing is actually cheaper.

In my years of being involved in the advertising industry, as well as the commercial printing industry.  I’ve come across very us different companies that have done such an amazing job at the level of marketing and promotion through various different mediums such as direct-mail, radio, TV etc. one of the stories that I like to tell people is that Coca-Cola was so successful in marketing a product that people have actually took on that product and its became a reality in our marketplace. Most people don’t realize that the Santa Claus that everybody looks to Lynn tells the children about and all the people in Macy’s and Norstrom’s season has face of Santa Claus was actually in marketing and advertising campaign that Coca-Cola ran well over 60 years ago.  Imagine being able to come up with the logo as well as a brochure, catalogue, letterhead & envelope or business card for that matter that would last the test of time. There’s not many things that have been built in the United States in the past 20 years that have been such an icon that I’m not aware you go no matter what you do everybody knows about that business. At that one of the best things that we can do to have the creative juices flowing is to take a trip back in time and see what others did before us or four floors at the level of direct marketing and mail campaigns at the level of TV and radio.  Who was in that longer are that most people either had won two or three color printing to market their company.  Now we have these high-end full-color brochures, catologs, business cards, and use these products in your direct-mail campaigns and direct marketing campaigns.  Create flyers that actually have people actually reach out and call you.

I’ve been in the for lack of a better word, full color printing industry for the last 20 years of my life. When I was in my late teens and early 20s I was in the industry purchasing. I have to say that it’s changed quite a bit since those days. Back then, we didn’t have any fancy computers and basically all of the typesetting was done by hand and mechanicals and actually have a shot with a camera and burned into a plate.  Now everything is done on computers and digital files.  We no longer have to run this back and forth to the commercial printers we actually do send things either to via FTP sites or e-mail. Etc. print job taking you somewhere in Aries a week and a half to two weeks.  It’s now done within 24 to 48 hrs..  The other thing that has changed quite drastically is the price.  Back when I used order flyers is very common to pay $700-$1000 to 5000 full color postcards. Now I’ve seen them as low as $150 to 5000 full color postcards. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out together do a hell of a lot of postcards at $150 to make what you could’ve made at 700 or $1000. The other thing this changes the actual consumers knowledge of full color printing. The thing that’s funny as is really no such term full color printing.  It was basically bastardize because people didn’t really grasp the concept of full color printing all better known as for color process. So people start using the term full color printing to describe what looks like full color or looks like a photograph so that term was common taken from what’s called for color process. People use terms back then, like off set printing. People knew which sheetfed printing was as well.  This terminology is not used very often anymore, although maybe it should be used more often.  Nowadays a lot of stuff is going digital, which is basically a glorified way of saying a color copy machine. This is allowed people toward a full color brochures as well as full color business cards and full color catalogs and not order such quantity.  You can order min Mondays and Tuesdays now because of the color copy machines.

This is some years ago actually came up with a cool promotional idea which ended up producing witch and the producing for me.  I went out and purchased 5000 pieces of bazooka bubblegum and I made up a little fly that was the size of a bazooka bubble gum wrapper. Then when I did was I physically peeled off each individual sticker and place them around the actual piece of bubble gum. This is one of those things where I just walked around and I distribute these things by hand and distribution promoting his upcoming event. It was such a hit that grand opening of the event produced 1800 people. Another friend that I saw another person do sometime prior to that was a creative small little flyer with a lot of copy on it. Know what they do is put a hole on the flyer and attached a small magnifying glass to it so you could pull a magnifying glass back and recall information that it had on the flyer. My personal experience when it comes to any type of direct marketing or mass mailing. It is very important to be creative and more creative the better. A bigger problem now is that people want a quick fix marketing and promotion a box. The problem is that everybody has the same box and they keep hitting the same groups of people again and again with the various products. you know the same garbage in garbage out. Now in the new year of digital printing and click printers. It’s easy to get volume of literature at inexpensive price. But sometimes less is more.  You can actually go further with a piece that is actually 12 or three color printing than you can with something that is four color process. Create a business card that will last a lifetime. In my opinion it’s worth it to spend $250 more on a high-end high color full-color business card than it is to try and get something put together on the cheap.  This goes for full-color brochures to full-color catalog stood full-color pocket folders and really doesn’t matter what it is that you printing take your time get a quality graphic designer and do right be creative.

So often I see various different promotional products that are missing the most important component to a successful mailing campaign. This is why it’s so important to have the piece designed and created around a strong call to action.  Normally when I’m designing a full-color brochure or, business card, full-color catalog, when it comes to direct-mail piece by star with a strong call to action first. When the graphic designers that I work with has the same mindset as I do.  Frequency equals sales. That’s why it’s so important to have that strong call to action something that will have your potential client leap out of his seat pick up the phone and call you to make the purchase for your product. This is how many effective marketing strategies are conducted. So the next time you’re thinking about sending out a full-color postcard star with a strong call to action first.