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Are very few industries have been it is hard and had the potential grows much as a commercial full color printing industry. As you have seen so many times over the last 10 years companies and been able to come out and position themselves to Thursday for marketing techniques such as paper click advertising, as well as search engine optimization and affiliate programs. By using these various different marketing techniques there been a slew of different companies that have been able to take over just about entire marketing shares. The good thing about the Internet is that you can be seen throughout the whole entire world provider your website is correctly optimize for search engine optimization and then as well as a well thought out pay per click marketing campaign. This particular proposition deftly has good news bad news properties within it. And here’s the good news within a click of a button millions of people are actually able to find your website to the very stiff and search engines. But that is also the bad news. Because everybody has been able to come across your to the Internet.  Most times things that make you different from your competitors is to be able to give the client more product for less money. So let’s take a look at this for a second if my competitors offering 5000 full color business cards for $150. than I can turn around and offer a 5000 full color business cards for $125.  And then another big commercial printing company sees that company a is or from $150 for full color business cards and company be is offering $125 for full color business cards.  Then they come out more for 5000 full color business cards for $99 and then kick in free shipping as an added perk to the client. So doesn’t take long to figure out that as a result of the Internet.  Many many businesses have become commoditized. So for a company to have longevity as well as profitability is imperative for a commercial printer to distinguish itself from his competitors. I think this is why so many companies have chosen to go niche rather than mainstream. The more niche to product, the more it’s in demand. So as far as I see it.  That’s the real question that needs to be answered is how far can you sway away from what your competitors are doing.  And then at that point just about exploiting those products and services, out into the world.  This information has no boundaries in any products, and she reported in to every and any product that relates to, marketing promotion full color printing, catalog printing, direct mail services, presentation folders, full color flyers, Brochure Printing, Color catalogs.

I think one of the things that were all guilty of doing, whether you’re in the commercial printing. All year selling cars to people locally. Essential care what it is that you do, but most of us at some time or another is business owners have neglected our clients. It’s still often than I hear companies concerned again and again about how the gun to bring new business into their companies. And a lot of times there is tremendous amount of business within start our existing client base. The problem is that for not reaching out to these clients to direct mail marketing pieces by using nice-looking full-color brochures or full color postcards and were missing the boat. Usually most companies as many opportunities to put marketing material in various different collateral that they give to their clients.  Yet ceased to do this. Our full color printing company has been the same way and many times. One of my newest ideas I came up with as I told my partner.  What we should be doing is taking a nicely done full color trifold brochure or and putting into every single box.  That leaves our facility. Think about it this way, on average.  Our company sends out 30 to 40 boxes a day. The client is a repeat for shipping of the material back to the location. So by take a brochure and put a within side of their box showing various different products that we or for as well as new products that were starting to offer.  It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out or going to get a certain amount of business and that the clients paying for the shipping anyway, so they don’t care if I give them something else to look at for free. This to me is a win-win takes care of some free marketing for you as the company and allows your customer who obviously are we like shoe because it doing business with you on a regular basis to have the possibility may be referring your new clients and/or taking you up on some of your new services that he may not have known that you offered in the past.

When was the last time you update your full-color brochure. Most companies don’t think about this on a regular basis, but the truth is, it is very important to keep your company look and design up to date. I guess that’s why so important that hire and work with a quality graphic design company. Your corporate identity is similar to wallpaper, what wallpaper was: updated back in 2002 would not be considered to be: updated in 2008. That’s why it’s so important to stay ahead of the curve. You should also keep in mind obviously that when updating this information is also needs to be liquefied throughout all of your different marketing collateral. Such is full color business, cards full color pocket, folder’s full-color posters, full-color rack cards. I can’t tell you how many times did I see people come into her office is looking to redesign.  One part of their corporate identity, and there is drastic inconsistency with their business cards to their postcards, right down the line to all the promotional collateral. Some clients Alexy come in with two different business cards completely different designs on completely different stocks. That’s why try to pound into the consciousness of every promotional director and marketing director that it’s imperative to have consistency in a corporation. One of our slogans in the printing company is, prices is important, but you your  image is everything.

When most people think of marketing.  They think of pushing a specific product in various different ways such as full color catalog printing, full-color brochure printing, color flyer printing, color postcard printing. Generally when using these various different products you’ll push a specific event, and/or a specific special that you are running for a limited time only.

I do think that when most people think a promotion they think more at the level of branding. You see various different con parties do this such as Geico, Coke Cola, HP etc. this is more to make consumers aware of the product through frequency. It generally is not pushing any specific product or any specific event.

I personally think that there is marketing materials that if done correctly.  You can pursue both branding as well is taking advantage of promoting any specific events that you may look to promoting near future, as well as pushing any specific product that you may have a surplus of as well new product launches.

You can also use a grass roots promotion or do both as well. One of the things I used to do when I was opening up a nightclub years ago.  If it was a grand opening of a new location.  What I would do about a month and a half prior to actually putting out the grand opening color flyers.  I would start to distribute teasers. The way that this would work as are actually create a flyer that would just have the logo on it and then it would say something to the effect is coming. I remember I did a 40 few ars ago called industry in Island Park Long Island. In a month and a half before the grand opening I put out these teases that said industry is coming. There are no telephone numbers, no addressed nothing that would have people realize what the specific event was more or less like a secret for people to try and figure out.

Then three weeks before the actual events I would start a massive Blitzkrieg. I would order someone an area of 50,000 full-color flyers.  Usually these would be somewhere in the area of a 4 x 6. I would distribute these everywhere. I would also send out press releases, as well as have people calling my mailing lists and creating VIP Flyer parties. It was not uncommon for an event like this for its grand opening night to do someone an area of 1500 to 2000 people.

So when you think about why can’t you do the same type of technique for virtually any business for any grand opening.

You also have the ability to this same type of thing through an e-mail blast type teaser followed up then with a full color postcard in the mail promoting the actual event. This is obviously what’s known as a marketing next, the more impressions that you can put them from the client the more likely you are to actually in sure your actual sale.

Another technique that I like to use is to order a full color rackcards and put them in a clear Lucite plastic holder on the different desks of the hotel managers, as well as hotel lobby entrances. He’s also work well in high traffic retail locations.

And last but not least another great technique that I like to use is to order some large full-color posters.  Usually those of a 24 x 36 and tape goes up in various different places.  Obviously high traffic places to promote my events, whether it’s a retail outlet or the grand opening of a nightclub.  Effective way to do some marketing and promotion for your company.

This is a very good way to get some free marketing and promotion out there for your company. As well as a practice that I’ve been doing probably for last 8 years in my own full color printing and graphics company.

If you print it tag it!!!!

One of the things that we do on virtually every single printed material that leaves are factory we tag. What this means is we put a small tag on the bottom of all of our printed pieces that say where it came from our website address, as well as our 800 number. It’s very similar to when something is made in China or its main Japan.  Product is stamped with it meaning its place of origin, where is made.

 This is the way, there are tag looks –

Need Printing???  www.preferredprint.com 1-800-329-0005

this tag generally appears on every single printed product that we produce from our full-color pocket folders, full color postcards, full-color brochures as well as our 1 and 2 color ncr forms.

 One of the things I do on a regular basis is walk around my office and speak to my graphic design is an estimate they’ve tagged their designs. My slogan is, if you’re working on and you’re designing you should put design imprinted with an 800 number and where they can contact you if they would like to purchase your product.

That’s why resist my people and answer the phone the police find out whether people came from the bases on how advertisements. Did they find us on the Internet when they were searching for a full color printing. Or did the person pick up a postcard that they received in the mail from a direct marketing campaign. Or did they pick up a flyer that they got on their car from a full-color flyer from a nightclub. You’d be surprised how many people call us after picking up one of our customers flyers and then contact us to actually get their next full-color printing job.

This is one of the ways that we keep her advertising course down we can pass that savings to the consumer.

Here’s one of the things I’ve been thinking about most recently.  Very often we think about selling a product we think of it from the standpoint of what it is that we would like to get accomplished in the world. In our particular case, obviously we want to sell as much printing as we possibly can as well as service our existing client base. The problem is that only think about it from the standpoint would inevitably ends up happening is, we find the customer being resistance. In my organization, I had a sales meeting this week.  I have been listening to the book made to stick on audio tape in my car. There was an article about a newspaper in a small town that a subscription base of 110%. When asked the editor replied the reason that he was so successful is because they were great at doing local news and putting local people newspaper which had their readership.  Always focused in on the papers much as possible see if they were being mentioned in today’s newspaper. In my particular case, as I said before, I want to sell as many full color letterhead and envelopes as I possibly can. I want to sell as many $99 full color business cards as I possibly can. I want to be the leader in full-color pocket folders throughout the whole entire nation. I want people in the printing industry throughout the whole entire world to notice my business and its ability to grow in an ever-changing marketplace. I want all customers in people when thinking of a full color printing comp and he thinking of our company. So now that I got that one across the point is that these are the things that I want and not necessarily what the client wants. I sat down myself staff, on Tuesday this week, I told them to start going local. What I mean by this is to actually find out what’s going on in some of the communities where we have our customers or potential customers. A great way doing this is one of the things you can do is just get an RSS news feed through the Internet for the specific state or city that you’re looking to do some potential business in. That’s what I mean by getting into other people’s world.  I told myself people that you need to be able to call up a person and be able to make a comment about something is going on in their local newspaper. Maybe a new governor was elected or new politician of some sort may lose some kind of big bicycle race.  Or maybe it’s just something as simple as their team won the Super Bowl or the World Series. My point is I think you’ll find at the level of cool: that’s for sure that people will be very interested in talking to if you can bring down that first screen of resistance. So there you have it, think less of what it is that you want to do and more about what the customer might be interested in, and I think he’ll sell times more product. This goes for cold calling, direct-mailing, the full-color catalog that you’re about to produce. All I can tell you is that for full-color printing business on loan to bring this whole concept into all of my full-color printing and graphics products

One of the things that I like to do as an owner of full color printing company is to consciously train my salespeople or customer service people as we like to call him today. Is that constantly speak to them.  In regards to up selling clients on various different printing products.

One of the things I like to point out to people on a regular basis is we have to sell 5000 full color postcards for $99. The thing you have to get is when we sell 5000 full color business cards for $99 were actually losing money, if that’s all they buy. But the thing is we know something that the average consumer doesn’t know.  We know that when someone comes in on a deal for 5000 color business cards.  More times than not, they don’t usually get those 5000 business cards and hit the road. They end up spending on average, probably $500 to $2500 dollars. So it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that it’s a good idea to create some type of throw away as they call it. This is what’s known in the marketing world as a loss leader. Meaning, you lose money when you sell it but by having the customer comes to the door your visibility to upsell him very as different products.

One of the things we’ll do is actually will create a direct mail piece.  This piece may be anywhere from the size of a 4 x 6 full-color postcard to a 6 x 9 full-color rack card. When it comes to direct mail and though I do have to say size is important. The smaller the direct mail piece, the more likely it is to get lost in the now. As a person of those printing and also direct mail services I know that the biggest unit that you can go before the postage ends up making a dramatic upswing is 6.5 x 11, we refer to this as a jumbo postcard.

The other thing that we like to do is if businesses want to refer to his guerrilla marketing.  This is basically a hand-to-hand distribution or are what the refer to his car to car. We usually do is we’ll go to a parking lot in any given place and depending possibly put them on people’s cars or end up doing hand-to-hand distribution to different crowds of people.

Is been said by, many times before that, if you bring a good idea with a good attitude success is usually not far behind.

 There is a saying in a very fun to that says an idea without action is fancy. In my opinion, there are many good ideas out there that would generate a tremendous amount of business for any given company. Genoa to prom is that those good ideas and never taken to the next level and then acted upon.

When it comes to marketing and promotion and/or direct mailing a good idea by itself is not enough.  When I sit and envision what my marketing campaign is going to look like.  I obviously look to get as creative as I possibly can.

When doing direct mail campaigns.  I usually have a philosophy on this, that is the what the biggest possible postcard that you can print without the postage going up dramatically. Make sure it’s a full-color postcard and make sure that the graphic designer working on it is talented and has the right skills set to fulfill on what you have is your ideas for this project.

The postcard size, I tell people to print is 6 x 11.5 this is still referred to as a letter-size mailing.  So when you send it out standard mala doesn’t matter if it’s 5 x 7, 6 x 8, 6 x 9, or 6 x 11.5. I tell people that the most expensive part of the entire process is obviously the mailing.  Generally the printing is fairly inexpensive next to the mailing cost.  So as far as I’m concerned they can statement you doing amount.

 Another great size, if you want to go even bigger on say like 100 pound text brochure.  I suggested to print a tabloid size, which is 12 x 18, and then folded down to 6 x 11.5.

If printing is something to take into consideration or guards the course.  You may want to think of doing a rack card, the size of this is 6 x 9

and when you don’t want to do things such as mailer there is  always hand-to-hand distribution using different media vehicle such as full-color flyers. Generally these flyers are either a 4 x 6 and or 6 x 8. And as most things, if you use the right graphic design team and a good hook, and good call to action generally you’ll do very well.

The reason I started out this blog entry like this is because most people don’t realize how important it is to be in action at the level of business. The reason that most people are successful, they actually take action and do what’s necessary for themselves and their business at the level of success.

As I’ve said so many times before the main reason that so marketing campaign fail is because businesses pull plug before they can be successful.

One of things that I tell people on a regular basis is, here’s the thing about buying marketing materials such as a full color printing.   Many people out of good ideas, but they failed take the actions necessary for those good ideas to be successful.  When I talk to people about what day are intending to do in direct marketing, full-color flyer distribution, marketing and promotion, full color postcard printing. You can work with the best graphic designer in the country and then have the most spectacular printed piece that anyone’s ever seen in the entire world.  However, if you do not do what’s necessary at the level of direct mail and meaning send them out to all the various different clients or and/or hot list that you may have, it’s worthless.

Sometimes I’ll talk the nightclub owners that will order the full color rack cards from our printing company.  And I don’t point blank and I should go out into sheer beauty flyers all over your community is a strong your money away.

 Another conversation that ends up happening quite a few times a year, as I tell people we only print 5000 full color business cards.  Granted these business cards only question $99 for 5000 full color business cards.  Obviously, it’s like a deal is a century.  For one of the most common things people tell me as I don’t need 5000 business cards.  So I asked him why don’t you need 5000 full color business cards.  They tell me because I’ll never get rid of 5000 full color business cards. Here is my reply to that and you’re not going out to see enough people.  And you’re not going to enough tradeshows, and you’re not working on warm markets. You and I tell him instead of being chintzy we do business cards give someone five or six cards.  Do some networking, tell tell them, listen in determining onto some clients object to 10% back on whatever I make at the level of commission.  Created value for the business cards at this way when used as you read them and handing them out all over the place they have a physical value to them and people old onto them.

Sometimes it just absolutely amazes me that people actually find reasons not to be successful in life. One of the things that we have are of businesses, we have one of these auto dialer that automatically calls people all over the country off different list that we have. And sometimes my salesman come on, to me if they look toward about not working in a use this as a form of excuse or reason not to be successful. My reply to them is this, if someone told me that the order of battle was broken.  I would open up the Yellow Pages stock: people throughout the Yellow Pages. If I don’t have a Yellow Pages I will go online to struggle in people and looking very stiff or more contract cultivate. If I couldn’t get online and I would go to my current database of clients, and I would start calling them to see if they need any new services.  But I couldn’t get into a database of existing clients, and I could go out and go door-to-door. There is no reason or excuse not to be successful ever in life. Sometimes I wonder people forget that easy to go out and do things get involved.  Talk to people make sales!!

Obviously there are many different products that one can use to create an effective marketing campaign.  It has been my experience in the past that some people clearly down with play.  How important it is to create the right call to action that will have your audience purchasing from you.

Let’s look a little bit about how some businesses are more effective than other businesses at the level of their marketing campaigns. And as I speak about marketing campaign some encompassing all types of different marketing techniques such as direct mailing services, guerrilla marketing full color flyers, thank your full color letterheads & envelopes internally.

It is a question I asked people on a regular basis.  If you took a piece of toilet paper and put your name and number on it and do a little logo by hand and handed that out as a source of your business card.  What do you think most people’s response would be, more formally, how do you think that you would leave deck client in their perception about you and your company. So the next question is as if you did the same thing.  But yet and so using toilet paper you used a nice piece of paper that had been cut to a 2 x 3.5 size, which is your average size for business card and you wrote your name and number need legal and sketched a logo about your company on a business card, would he think people’s response would be that in having you think that they would view you in your company after receiving that as well. Then you took that same exact piece of paper.  Instead of sketching anything you actually created a nice two color logo with a simple, easy-to-read font.

Obviously the more professionally, you can make something look, as well as not having it appear or occurred or be cluttered, the better off you are.

The next thing that’s obviously very important is to create a very strong and effective call to action on those very stiff and pieces whether they be business card sized flyers, a full-color 4 x 9 rack card, an 8.5 x 11 full-color trifold brochure, or a 40 page full-color catalog. What you say on these particular products is very important in the effectiveness and profitability of these tools that have the ability of impacting your business in a positive way.

Some other thing is that you can actually create from effective call to action is what’s known eight take action statement.

They generally look something like this.

                 : for a limited time only when you purchase 5000 full-color postcards.  You will receive 5000 complementary business cards with a retail value $150. While supplies last, good only for the next 30 days with an expiration date

              : if you’re one of the first 300 callers, you will be put into a drawing to receive $5,00. in cash.

These are simple but effective calls action which would have your average customer looking to take advantage of these particular situations.  What I normally like to use is what’s known as a media mix. Generally, what you’ll do is you are actually create four or five different products that would actually have you have an effective marketing campaign and use them all simultaneously within the first 30 days to market that specific product. When I would generally do is suggest to a customer to order a full color vinyl banner, a full-color 24 x 36 inch poster, a 4 x 9 rack card to be distributed through local retail stores. I may also have them create a nice full-color brochure as well. Then when I generally would tell them to do is with the full-color rack cards to put the manner local retailers. Maybe sent out 5000 piece mailer to the very different retail markets,they’re looking to penetrate.  And then also to send out a nice size catalog to their existing client base.

I would also make sure that the graphic designer was working on one piece is saying graphic designer designing old pieces soon and there is a consistency to wall the marketing material.

When the companies that I referred to now and then to my readers so they can purchase affordable full-color printing is the website www.preferredprint.com