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Catalog Printing and Marketing
Catalogs are a great way to introduce your complete product line to potential or existing customers. Some companies release product catalogs on a quarterly basis, whereas others who don’t have a rapidly changing product line release on an annual basis. Catalogs can also be released on a seasonal basis depending on your business’ product line. For example, if you are in the business of selling costumes than you obviously should have a catalog fully dedicated to just Halloween costumes come October. Catalog printing is a traditional marketing method that seems to have withstood the onslaught of the internet. Most people still appreciate a physical catalog and more often than not they actually take the time to go through the entire catalog. This is because it is clearer for some people to browse linearly one page at a time through your catalog than navigating aimlessly through a website.
Understand the Role of Table Tent Advertising
A table tent is a triangular, tri-fold, marketing or advertising piece that is usually seen in restaurants, bar tops, and random office counter tops. They are effective by nature of its bulky shape and our human tendency to pick them up with our hands. People have grown accustomed to looking at table tents largely in part because of our dining experiences. How many times have you sat down in a restaurant and while deciding what to eat pick up the table tent that is advertising a special. Now more importantly, how many times have you actually ordered that special being advertised on the table tent? I’m going to guess probably a handful of times. You see the table tent has warmed its way into our hearts because we see it as a “supporting advertisement” that helps us makes decisions when the situation calls for it. We make a closer connection with the advertisement because we pick it up with our hands and expect it to show us something interesting and when it delivers it really delivers! Continue Reading…
Xerox iGen4 Variable Printing Solutions
The Maine Office of Tourism helps visitors plan the perfect trip.
As the marketing organization for the largest industry in the state of Maine, the Maine Office of Tourism serves a wide range of travel-related businesses and a broad spectrum of potential visitors with diverse interests.
Their challenge: reaching every hiker or beachcomber or antique-seeker with the information that is most relevant to their interests and most likely to persuade them to choose Maine.
For the Maine Office of Tourism, the benefits of using state of the art tools to attract a larger share of new and return visitors are clear. With more tourists, more revenue is brought into a state highly dependent on the travel industry. In a tight and competitive market, a targeted and personalized mailing is a better use of the Maine Office of Tourisms budget than a one size fits all approach.
Debunking Myths of Digital Printing #3
Case Study No. 3: The kind of personal data needed to make variable information printing valuable is just too difficult to find and to expensive to collect.
The Legend: The kind of personal data needed to make variable information printing valuable is just too difficult to find and to expensive to collect.
From the Beginning:
Early promotions of variable information printing demonstrated the process’s power by focusing on sophisticated and complex applications. This created the misconception that rich sets of personal data were required for successful Variable Information Printing.
Debunking the Myth:
In reality, the majority of today’s one on one marketing pieces, and may of the most effective ones, make creative use of the most basic data sets. Sourcing your data sets is usually straightforward and once a personalized communications initiative is under way rules can be put in place to collect additional personalized information an build a better database ensuring you will have the data you need when you need it.
Heres the Proof –
- Simple personalization boosts response rate
Color name-only personalization has been shown to boost response rates by 135 percent over a comparable static black and white peice
- Increasing ROI with one to one
Variable Printing done right allows you to maximize your ROI by using one to one marketing. While total cost per piece for marketing materials may increase, it has been shown that revenue increase can be quite substantial.
Remember that Variable Printing services can yield more personalized direct mail marketing campaigns and using the power of digital printing can help build better relationships with your customers.
Make sure to check in with us about our new Variable Printing Solutions and Think creatively about personalization to yield amazing results.
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