Marketing Enablement Tools for Stronger Sales: Part 6 of 7 Let’s get this new year rolling by returning to our series assessing the value of different marketing enablement services. Today’s post focuses on a tool that certainly isn’t new. But it’s one that can...
Ultra Violet Represents ‘Hue-mongous’ Possibilities Hello again, and Happy New Year, everyone! On Thursday, I’ll resume our series on assessing the benefits of various marketing enablement tools. But I thought I’d add a little color to this first post of 2018 by...
Take Note: Handwritten Notes Work Best. Want to Remember It? Write It, Don’t Type It I find this very interesting, and maybe you will, too. But just this week I noticed still another article talking about the downside of taking notes by computer instead of taking...
Are You Looking for Success In All The Wrong Places? Making a business thrive is 80% psychology and 20% strategy. That’s one thing I’ve learned from a program I recently completed. It’s called Mind Hack, developed by David Bayer. And I’d encourage you to learn a...
Helpful Tip for Direct Mail: “Item-ize” It Recently, I came across an interesting blog post. It focused on how to make direct mail more effective. The author was knowledgeable, and she made some good suggestions. But she forgot the most proven “tactic” of...
Is Vistaprint or Walmart Right for YOUR Promotional Product Needs? Promotional products are excellent marketing tools that offer great ROI and work to build your business. You’ve read my posts singing their praises. After all, they are the most effective forms of...
A Smarter, Less Stressful Approach to Printing Needs Control freak? If you manage a small or mid-sized business or play a key role in a larger one, you may feel you have to be these days. For many of us, the ever-faster pace of business today gives us the feeling that...
Mashable Says QR Codes are “Cool Again” A few years back, some “in the know” techies pronounced QR codes dead. But to paraphrase Mark Twain after he read his own obituary—reports of its demise have been greatly exaggerated. Plenty of recent evidence suggests that QR...
Custom Pens Get Results. And Right Now You Can Get Them Faster. This post is about all about custom pens, so let’s get to the point. First, custom pens are an excellent promotional item to hand out at this time of year. Second, our special November offer means...
How to Make a Custom Branded Calendar That Works for Your Business AND Your Customers and Prospects Custom branded calendars remain one of the most popular promotional gifts a business can distribute to customers and prospects. The more pressed and over-scheduled our...
Wondering How to Make Promo Work for Your Brand? I’d imagine after the last week or so, you are pretty well aware of my fondness for promotional items. Their value is hard to question. After all, consumer research tells us that they are the best-received advertising...
Helping Companies in the Floral Industry Grow a Bunch Marketers in the floral industry know that business grows on relationships and being “top of mind”. When a need arises from a current or potential client, your name needs to be the one they think of. One of the...
Promotional Marketing Tools That Get Your Brand Noticed Promotional marketing influences people. And it’s hard to imagine an industry that touches more people. Society is fed by those involved in the food and beverage industry. That includes the farmers, workers and...
Great Advice to Tip the (Sales) Scales in Your Favor Here’s a news flash: every business is in business to make money. That includes yours and ours. And the way you do that is by offering great value and service to your customers. That leads to more, and more...
“Lonely” Can Mean “Costly” to Your Company One of our major goals is to make your sales process more effective, from using promotional items smartly to having your printing needs met more efficiently through print supply chain management.I often suggest one of our...
Featured: A Strong Foundation—and a Bright Future for Michigan-Based Businesses Sometimes I have trouble holding in my pride about our company and my home state of Michigan. My company, founded by my grandfather in 1924, offers unmatched experience, technologies, and...
Is Your Print Supply Chain Managing YOU? “We figure out how to print things when we need to.” Not an uncommon attitude, and at face value it seems to make sense. But when I hear it from business owners or managers, it means they are probably spending a lot more time...
Will Eco branding Save Money on Printing Services? I’ve been writing about print supply chain management in recent weeks. And that’s not by accident. I think it’s one area in which we can do the most good for our clients. Our company was founded on new ways to save...
10 Blogs That Offer Valuable Supply Chain Management Advice It’s no secret that a well-designed and managed supply chain can make the difference between profitable growth and stressful uncertainty. If you’re a regular reader, you know that I frequently talk...
Find Help for Businesses Affected by Hurricane Irma Here Texas is only beginning its recovery from Hurricane Harvey. Now, Hurricane Irma has done its worst to the state of Florida. We’d like to do our best to help in any way we can. So today I’d like to point to...
