An article that lists some of the ways to use DVD and CD insert printing to market your band, business, or yourself. See great examples of how other people have created CD’s and DVD’s for their art and business projects.
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5 BIG BUSINESS CARD MISTAKES!
May 8, 2012
The business card! That ancient print object that has been hooking-people-up for centuries can be both a thing of simple beauty and a hideous design Medusa that turns all tasteful sensibilities to stone! While I don’t purport to be the world’s greatest design expert, I’ve been in the design and marketing business long enough to know when [...]
How to Create an Effective Sell Sheet
May 1, 2012
What is a sell sheet? Typically, a sell-sheet is similar to a single-page brochure that presents information about your products, company, and the services you are offering. A sell sheet is usually used as a sales tool for sales and marketing people to present their company and the product or service they are selling. Simply [...]
Top 3 Print Products for Marketing your Photography Business
March 23, 2012
As the summer season nears, sending examples of photography work to clients and customers should be a no-brainer. Great imagery defines the photographer and sending people examples of this imagery is essential.
Can Print Marketing & Digital Marketing Work Together?
February 14, 2012
In this brave new digital age it’s really easy to forget the importance of print marketing. As technology becomes ever more sophisticated, businesses should consider using print, not as an alternative to digital, but as a way of bridging the gap between these two essential marketing tools. My own experiences in digital marketing reflect [...]
10 Tips for Creating your Brochure
January 31, 2012
The impact of your brochure has to be immediate if it is going to capture the interest of the customer. You have to offer something valuable to the customer to make them look inside. Here’s 10 tips on creating a better brochure message and design.
5 Steps to Designing your Business Card
January 24, 2012
The business card is often one of the first things that non-professionals or design beginners will try to design themselves. Here’s 5 essential rules to consider before designing your business card.
Build A 2012 Print Marketing Campaign You Can Be Proud Of
January 3, 2012
As the New Year is upon us it’s time to start thinking about crafting your 2012 marketing campaigns. Perhaps you are a photographer wanting to distribute flyers to newly engaged couples in an attempt to shoot their wedding. Or maybe you are a tax accountant attempting to create new brochures in an effort to get [...]
Tips & Bits #48: The Four Bases of Homerun Copy
October 24, 2011
Whether you want to make a sale, get an opt-in for your email list, sign up a new subscriber for your blog, or just motivate readers to support an issue, the Four Bases will help you hit home runs when it comes to creating copy that prompts action. It’s such a simple system, you won’t [...]
Tips & Bits #47: Extreme Brand Makeovers
October 10, 2011
Companies seeking rapid growth and have ample resources to invest can reinvent an existing brand to uncover hidden potential and achieve financial success.
Here are some interesting case studies that can be used to inspire problem solving for other situations…maybe yours.
QR Codes Go Through (or at least on top of) The Roof
October 7, 2011
For marketer who would like to get free advertising on Google, an Austin, Texas, firm plans to facilitate the placement of QR codes on rooftops. Phillips & Co.’s new service, called Blue Marble, offers a “space-accessible profile” for businesses, cities, schools that want to raise their profile. In addition to catching the attention of the [...]
The Tortoise and the Hare: Two Work Approaches to Getting the Job Done
October 7, 2011
Neither style is better than the other. Each one can be successful, or fail spectacularly. Finding the style that matches your personality will help you by reducing your stress level and by optimizing your efficiency.
Trying to work in a style that doesn’t fit with your personality will only make you miserable, unhappy and more likely to abandon your quest.
Like the story of the Tortoise and the Hare, there are generally two kinds of entrepreneurs.
Testing: The Tool That Builds More Effective Marketing
September 30, 2011
Testing is one of the fundamental tools employed to improve the efficiency of marketing campaigns.
A/B or Split-Testing are two names for the way the results of one element of a campaign – an email, a landing page or a banner ad – is compared with another to determine the effect a specific variable has on the outcome.
Tips & Bits #46: So You Want To Create a Brand
September 26, 2011
Do you know exactly what makes your company, business, product, or service interesting, compelling and different?
Unless you’ve made the effort to define your position in the market and to communicate it using engaging language, your brand is condemned to be an also-ran, if it’s lucky enough to survive at all.
Tips & Bits #45: How Clever Retailers “Prime” The Customer To Buy
September 19, 2011
Think you’ve never been “primed” like a pump? Don’t believe that your subconscious mind can be influenced without your realizing it? Whole Foods Market and others are doing it every day.























May 10, 2012
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