Full Color Printing News

One of the things I’ve noticed that most full color commercial printing companies do.  His consul and concentrate on creating new customers through various different marketing concepts such as direct mail, as well as very as different mediums such as magazine advertisements, as well as pay per click advertising to the various different major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN. And every so often you’ll see them sponsor some type of local social events such as one of the Chambers of commerce. I’ve done some consultation work with a company called www.preferredprint.com they were very much the same in the way that they had acquired over 3000 clients a day at either done business with in the past and/or had called on to get quotes.  Over the last 10 years. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out how they been in touch with their clients every 30 to 60 days.  They wouldn’t have to continually go out and look for new clients.  They could just work on servicing the clients that they initially had. This is obviously very important philosophy and business work.  The leads that you have. Take care your existing clients and those existing clients, and that will take care of your company.  That’s why I think that a lot of the commercial printing industry is going to be going back to the grassroots, which to me is all about customer service. It gets to a point that you can’t compete a price, you need to give them what they can’t get from companies of the selling price, which is service.  This to me is what all heads back to have your selling full color printing services.  If you are doing a direct mail campaign for a client.  If you are printing things like full-color brochures and full color catalogs and full-color pocket folders.  You need to service your clients.  Another thing that I’ll have you stand out for beyond anybody else is the integrity and the service as well as the quality of the graphic design to hire.  I drill into every single client as well as people that I mentor the integrity of the Georgia graphic design piece will ultimately make or break your whole entire campaign.

In my opinion, it appears that a lot of companies have jeered themselves into doing gang run full color printing.  The problem is that once you create this would does ultimately his drives down prices lower and lower because everybody’s competing to keep those printing forms ganged up with a quick turnaround time. The way that form printing works is that you end up putting like 13 to 15 different clients on each individual forms. Basically, what generally happens is the form is 12 x 18 and then what you would normally do is put lets say eight different postcards up on that form.  Usually they’ll range between 4 x 6 full color postcards to full color postcards that are 5.5 x 4.25 92 when these postcards generally is from a different client.  And what you end up doing is running 5000 sheets and then cutting the sheets down in each individual postcard is a different client each client gets 5000 full color postcards. The promise is that you need to have every single day 10 to 15, 20 different clients ordering and purchasing every single day. Which then again, tends to drive the price way down because everybody’s competing triumph of their forms. Thus comes as saying live by the sword die by the sword. And based on the fact that the Internet is commoditizing everything within it commercial printing industry.  Many printers have been an able to continue and keep up. And also as a result, the 12 and three color printing industry has taken huge beating and it’s very hard to find offset printers that are willing to do 12 and three color printing nowadays.  They end up doing this gang runs.  Not just on postcards, they also do a non-full-color pocket folders, full-color brochures, full color postcards, full color business cards, full-color letterhead and envelopes, full-color rack cards, or even companies out there that I gang running full-color 30 no plastic cards.

As a mention to you before one of things that were starting to do with inside our full color printing company is to put some type of printed material in every single box, that is leaving our facility headed to one of our existing clients.  The more competitive marketplace becomes a more innovative, you have to be to find out ways that you can actually create free opportunities for you to distribution and get your various different promotional and marketing pieces into the hands of potential and existing clients. I know that we will be supporting a full-color brochure into all of the boxes leaving our facility as well as stapling a business card from the appropriate salesperson.  Cared is selling 123 color printing or Jacuzzis you have to create a frequent flyer program or frequent shopper program.

Very often when I meet people out in the field.  They’re printed materials as well as their websites have no consistency whatsoever. I try to burn into the consciousness of every person whom I run into that the graphic design of all of your marketing pieces.  You present business as well as any future business that you might be able to bring in as a result of any type of walking that you’re doing. A lot of companies spend a lot of money in the landing.  So this way their marketing promotions that much more effective.  And it is imperative that you do this type of consistency to all of your collateral. From your letterhead and envelope to the flyers and postcards that you have people doing distribution on.  It’s also very important for you to come up with some type of customer reward system.  Companies generally used a 30 mill plastic card, which gives a look of a credit card with some type of freak and shopper frequent flyer miles program.  I know that www.preferredprint.com has some very good programs that they are running right now. I also liked the idea of using rack cards in a classic Lucite holder and having people do grass roots marketing campaign.

I like decree my business card in such a way that not only doesn’t have my contact information on it but it also has some type of strong call to action which would have someone asked to contact me after her meeting that we already had have.  Obviously, this requires some thought as well as some creativity, which is why it’s always important to have a good graphic designer that you’re dealing with. This is also a good idea to incorporate into all of your brochure pieces while.  As well as your full color catalogs.

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.

In question is, do you have more than one impression on a first impression and the answer is no. That’s why it’s so important have a full color business card.  That makes the statement necessary in today’s business environment.

When it comes to full color printing your image starts and stops you business card. What I tell people is its best it possible to create a business card.  That is full color two sided on a thick 12 point cover stock, preferably with the UV lamination. What I normally do for my business cards, as I actually set up the card using my logo on the front of the card and then on the back of the car I put all of my contact information as well as my e-mail address and website address so on and so forth. I also usually put on the back of the card my logo in the upper left-hand corner.  I find that this is a very clean way as well as a professional way to get my point across on my business card

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