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October 24, 2023

Bridging the Digital Divide: The Vital Role of Print in Reaching Everyone

In today’s digitally driven world, it’s easy to assume that everyone is connected, but the reality is quite different. Millions of Americans still lack access to high-speed Internet—42 million Americans, to be exact. (The FCC defines “high-speed” as download speeds of at least 25 Mbps and upload speeds of at least 3 Mbps.) This underscores the importance of keeping print in the marketing mix. Printed marketing materials like postcards, sales letters, and other direct mailers reach every American, regardless of their Internet connectivity.

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October 13, 2023

Data-Driven Marketing: The Key to Achieving Business Success

In today’s marketing landscape, the importance of data-driven marketing cannot be overstated. Gone are the days of relying solely on intuition and guesswork to make marketing decisions. Instead, successful businesses harness data’s power to drive their marketing strategies and achieve remarkable results. What are some of the benefits of building your marketing strategy on data?

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September 27, 2023

Five Elements That Make Print Shine

In the ever-evolving marketing world, getting caught up in the digital buzz is easy. However, there’s a timeless charm to a well-executed print campaign that captures attention and makes a lasting impression. Print has unique qualities that can elevate your direct mail efforts. Let’s look at five elements that make print special.

September 14, 2023

Five Steps to Crafting Effective Marketing Copy

Marketing copy is the heart and soul of your advertising efforts. It connects your product or service with your audience, compelling them to take action. Let’s break down five essential steps to writing effective marketing copy.

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August 24, 2023

Making Sense of Omni, Multi, Cross, and Integrated Channel Marketing

As you seek to break through the marketing clutter, the more channels, the better. Pairings such as print with email, email with social media, and social media with print will result in higher response rates than any single channel alone. As you plan your efforts, you may wonder about the terms “omnichannel marketing,” “multichannel marketing,” “cross-channel marketing,” and “integrated marketing.” What are the differences between them? Is one approach better than another? Let’s take a look and find out.

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August 10, 2023

10 Items for Your Pre-Design Packaging Checklist

Whether you are sitting down to design your first folding carton package or your hundredth, it helps to have a pre-design checklist. This ensures that your packaging looks and performs its best. Here are ten considerations you don’t want to overlook.

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July 26, 2023

Avoid the USPS’s Top Mailing Mistake

In the world of direct mail, creativity is everything. You want to design pieces that stand out and catch the customer’s eye. But be careful! Sometimes this leads to designing mail pieces in nonstandard sizes that, in some cases, can make the mailpiece undeliverable. Failure to meet minimum mailing dimensions is the number one mailing mistake cited by the United States Postal Service.

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July 12, 2023

Unleashing the Power of Top-of-Mind Awareness

In marketing, being “top of mind” means being the first brand or product that comes to mind when a shopper thinks of a particular industry, category, or need. For example, when someone says “soda,” what comes to mind? Coca-Cola? Pepsi? When someone says “electronics,” is it Apple? Samsung? LG? Whatever your product category, you also want to be top of mind.

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June 27, 2023

Relevance: The Key to Success in Personalized Printing Campaigns

The ability to tailor documents with precision, incorporating variables like gender, income, and geographic location, holds immense potential in print and email marketing. But savvy marketers know that data points, by themselves, don’t make communication effective. So what does? Relevance.

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June 13, 2023

Marketing Lessons: Avoid These 5 Mistakes to Boost Your Strategy and Results

Marketers learn from what some do well and from what others don’t. Either way, they learn. Let’s look at five “don’ts” we can take away from the mistakes of others. See any you need to fix in your marketing?

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