Marketers, Think of Direct Mail as an Offline Retargeting Tool

Let me be blunt: I’m tired of defending print. Many of you know that I come from a digital background, so I’m guilty of poo-pooing print early in my career. I’ve seen the error of my ways; I no longer view print and digital as competing forces. They are complementary assets that together form a […]

Hey, What Happened to Your Authorship?

Did you notice a decline in organic search traffic to your blog? If so, you’re not alone. I started seeing unusual stats in Google Analytics around Dec. 11th. It appeared as though social referrals outnumbered organic search visits for the first time. Wow, I thought. This means we’re really connecting with our fans! While it’s […]

A Year’s Worth of Important Posts by Special People

Image Source We’re back, and ready to rock 2014! But I wouldn’t feel right about moving forward without acknowledging all the awesome people who contributed to this blog in 2013. Before I got here, this blog didn’t have any guest posters, interviews, etc. I vowed to change that because I think every blog benefits from […]

Why Marketers Can’t Trust Instagram aka Facebook

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…for meaningless marketing predictions. Every December bloggers pour themselves cups of spiked eggnog, and play fortuneteller. They gush over their preferred platforms and make doomsday predictions loosely based on data. I’m as guilty as the next blabbermouth; I posted last week about moving away from Facebook in 2014. […]

New Year’s Resolution: Maintaining (and Leveraging) a Customer Database

Guest Post by Bill Michael, Xerox Digital Printing Specialist As we prepare to tie the bow on 2013, we anxiously look ahead to what we hope will be a very promising 2014. While the new year brings a sense of unknown, and with the unknown comes fear…it also brings hope, optimism, and ambition. If you […]

Can I Make Bookmarks in Adobe Photoshop?

I noticed this question in our search query data, so I thought it would be a good idea to answer it here on our blog. Custom bookmarks make great Christmas gifts for kids, teachers, writers, readers, and they’re also excellent promotional items for marketing your business. We printed bookmarks for our friends at the PrintMediaCentr […]