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This is going to be the wave of the new future.  When you think about it.  The volume of paper that commercial printers are taking down on any given day is estimated to take up miles of forest.  This is why it’s so imperative for this industry in particular to go green.  The more that the consumer request this or as a matter of fact demands it is what they need to spec out there jobs to sooner this will become a reality.  I believe that they innovative, full color commercial printer will get in front of this going green which will give them a competitive edge in today’s ever-changing printing industry. I know that www.preferredprint.com uses a mix between new and recycled paper. The paper that they are expecting all the jobs of the beast 80% of recycle compost within their paper. So whether you’re printing a one, two, or three color job.  Whether it’s a pocket folder, catalog, flyer printing, or a poster print job.  It needs to be on the least at the Ben minimum 80% compost recycle Paper. and actually really looks good as well  if you do a business card on 100% recycled paper gives is this really nice rustic look, which is a very different than what you see today on your average full color business card print job.  I believe his wallet this really creates a big marketing advantage when you can play this up that your company is getting behind all of the newest green technology.  It also looks really good on letterhead and envelope as well.

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.

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

Here are some great techniques that will generate more business to your full color printing website.

1.)  It’s important I actually have a website that is search engine optimization friendly. I mention this to people because very often they have websites as they were designed many many years ago and they don’t have the rights code set in place for them to be search engine optimization friendly. I will be happy to also give you reputable company to do your search engine optimization. The name of this company is called www.iconwebsitesearchengineoptimization.com or you can use their sister at website which is called www.iconwebsitedesign.com you can find them at either one of these two particular websites and I find them to be a very reputable company I’ve used them for many years I’ve been always happy with all their work.

2.) Another thing I will help you bring traffic to your full-color printing website is to do various different things such as e-mail newsletters.

The way that this works is you take all of your e-mail addresses that you’ve compiled over years and years of being in business and have won your graphic designers designing e-mail blasts in HTML. Usually it’s a good idea to create some type of special like you 5000 full-color business cards for $99 or something about maybe a full-color catalog for X amount of  Dollars limited time only. It’s obvious that you need to create a very strong call to action memo have somebody want to take you up on your offer.

3.) One of the things that we do in our full-color printing company that has helped us climb up the ranks of  Google, Yahoo and MSN we have affiliated us with various different Free online business directories. One of them that I will be happy to tell you about and I’ve been very happy with the level of service that we have gone from this particular company. The name of this site is http://www.freeprintingdirectoryonline.com/ this particular directory has been very good for us and created a lot of exposure.

4.) The other thing that they offer on this particular directory which I will now get into is actually buying banner ads. The vets can usually can be placed from anywhere from $50-$100 per month. On some of these directories they get anywhere from 10,000 tuneup words of 100,000 hits per month on these different directories.

5.) And last but not least if you want to generate some more business for your printing company what could be better than doing some hand-to-hand distribution of various different markets in your area. And he can expect people to buy printing from you and then you don’t even use your own products to promote your business. I’m a caveat to create a small full-color 4 x 6 postcard and go down to the local malls and start doing some distribution hand-to-hand to the various different business owners.

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

Things to do and not to do on a direct-mail campaign..

1.) First off, the reason most mailing campaigns fail is because the the business owner and his pulling the plug before has a chance to be successful. Has been estimated many times that a person must see you’re at least four times before they even contemplate on purchasing from you.

I’ve said this before, and some of the articles I’ve posted that direct marketing works a lot like brainwashing. Every person I’ve ever talked to for as long as I can remember told me that appetizing works to frequency clients have to see a product again and again and to the repetition.  You’re able to create sales.

2.) One thing that a lot of people fail to do in marketing campaigns is to create some type of form of testing and measuring the results of that advertisement. As I mentioned before, I’m working with the business coach presently for my businesses, and she was working with a client or spending roughly $18,000 a month in print ads. Should mention to this gentleman if he is ever done a test and measuring to find out what his actual return is on his investment. He replied that he had not ever tested.  The actual ad, but he wished pretty sure that was working fairly well. Needless to say they came up with a practical way of creating some type of value within that had that will have people call it his business to take advantage of that or for. What they found was disturbing to say the least. They found that he was spending $18,000 a month for last three years.  And apparently the publication’s readers were not interested in what he had to offer. This is you could imagine was very disturbing to her client. That’s what I tell people on a regular basis that I run into is make sure that your testing and measuring your direct-mail campaigns.  All of your print ads in your various different magazines and publications. Even if you doing TV commercials to me it’s very important to create some type of value to the viewers of that as well.

3.) I have tried to send out various different postcards, as well as letters folded down into an envelope. And it seems to me when I create an actual value.  People generally call. I created an ad sometime back and read in one of these local free newspapers. It was funny because in that newspaper.  I advertise a lot of different prices. The one price that people seem to really chime in on was 5000 full color business cards starting as low as $99. Looking back at it now.  What I would’ve done is to just do one ad, 6″ x 9″ strictly promoting 5000 full color business cards for only $99. He is a would end up happening as a result of this marketing and what happens in most marketing ads. People would come into our office with the intention of purchasing 5000 full color business cards for $99.  Bowl would end up happening is they would come in and purchase those business cards for $99 and then end up spending a heck of a lot more than that to very stiff and products that they need to go with those business cards I remember a client came in one day for the business card special. What ended up happening was by the time they left the office that day than is spending $5,000. Obviously was worth it to do a special like that because the end result was.  People actually in the purchasing things from us.

4.) These are important methods to think about the next time that you’re coming up with a marketing campaign.

Whether it’s a full-color brochure, full-color rack card for mailing purposes, full color postcards for direct mailing, or full-color flyer to do hand-to-hand distribution within the conference center.  Make sure you have a strong call to action.

I believe the first and most important thing you can do for yourself and your business is find a high quality graphic designer.  That’s not only talented, with his graphic design, but also honors himself as his word.  Meaning that he makes the deadlines that he set for himself.

The other thing that I think it is important is that you as a business owner research every and all marketing books that you get your hands on. Don’t try to re-create the wheel just find some good marketing campaigns and a brainstorm upon them. I saw a great ad the other day in the marketing book that I’m reading right now. At the top of the advertisement it said after you get married, kiss your wife and seven places she’s never been kissed before. I had to lay the first thing to happen was my mind will write into the gutter. Then I proceeded to read into the ad.

As I scrolled down the ad.  There was seven different places around the world that you could go on vacation in and kiss your wife in seven different locations in which he’s never been kissed before. That to me is very good advertising. What it does for me, is it does for many is it has me start thinking.

Think about the next time you spend all this money sending out of 50 or 20,000 full color postcards.  The most expensive part of that advertisement is the postage. Other people send out full color catalogs and they don’t put enough thought I believe in to the front cover of the catalog.  Now you spending tens of thousands of dollars on printing and on the postage.

This is something for you to think about the next time you invest thousands of dollars on your next direct marketing campaign, or your average marketing promotion that you invest in.

It is been said that the right wording match with the right image can make the difference between a successful mailing campaign and an unsuccessful in campaign.

I use myself as a barometer, a lot of times I figure if it works in May that all work for a certain amount of other people. Another thing I do is is I have a graphic designer who lay out the ad.  The way that I constructed it and then I take it home with me and I actually lay with in my bed at night. I ask other people what they think of the ad. And last but not least, I sleep on it for a couple days because I know, whatever it is I’m about to do its can of course be thousands of dollars so I better take my time and do a right.