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How Catalogs Should Fit into Your Marketing

How Catalogs Should Fit into Your Marketing

Most of us remember the magic of getting catalogs in the mail—leafing through the pages and marking down the items you wanted to add to your wish list. Catalogs were full of potential and ...
5 Considerations for a Stellar Outbound Marketing Strategy in 2025

5 Considerations for a Stellar Outbound Marketing Strategy in 2025

2025 is nearly upon us, making it a great time to review your outbound marketing strategy. Much has changed over the last five years—with technology rapidly advancing in ways that directly impact consumer behaviors ...
How to Create Retail POP Displays that Really Pop

How to Create Retail POP Displays that Really Pop!

For retail stores, your point-of-purchase (POP) is your last moment to foster impulse purchases, drive sales, and remind customers of that “one more thing they need.” Long in play in retail spaces, today’s impactful ...
Reaching Less Digitally Engaged Voters with Direct Mail

Reaching Less Digitally Engaged Voters with Direct Mail

It's hard to avoid political conversations these days. Political campaigns are everywhere in an election year (and even in non-election years). So, how do you get potential voters to tune into your message? While ...
How to Have Success Using Direct Mail for Education Admissions

How to Have Success Using Direct Mail for Education Admissions

If you’re marketing for an educational institution, you might not realize how “direct mail” can be an effective channel for admissions campaigns. Do potential parents and new students actually notice direct mail?   The ...
Does Augmented Reality Fit Your Direct Mail Project

Next Level Tech: Does Augmented Reality Fit Your Direct Mail Project?

Imagine direct mail campaigns and marketing pieces that speak to your customers in all new ways—literally! With a simple scan, they could see a virtual demo, explore a product model, or play a game ...
6 Unique Ways to Measure Direct Mail Effectiveness

6 Unique Ways to Measure Direct Mail Effectiveness (Including A Few You May Not Be Aware Of)

A direct mail campaign is a great way to reach your target audience, but how do you know if it’s really working? Even if you know that the piece of marketing collateral was received, ...
Heres how a web-to-print storefront can help get you what you need when you need it for print-on-demand

Get these 6 Benefits of a Web-To-Print Storefront

In the conventional printer-customer relationship, a minimum run requirement is usually needed to keep your projects cost-effective. But we all know what happens—you end up with more literature than you need, higher printing costs ...
How to utilize creative messaging and design to grab customers attention

Stand Out and Grab Eyeballs with Creative Messaging and Design

You can develop the best marketing plan. You may have excellent audience data. But if you don’t have the right creative messaging and design, it won’t attract the audience you’re trying so hard to ...
Command Attention with Unique Dimensional Mailers

Command Attention with Unique Dimensional Mailers

Wondering how to really grab your target audience’s attention? Want to make your marketing message stand out from the cacophony of advertising, content, and endless promotion? If you’re looking for the best way to ...
building direct mail lists

A strategic approach to building direct mail lists

Many companies wield purchased mailing lists like a blunt instrument. They buy a list of names that appear to meet (some) of their criteria and then blast out direct mail campaigns, hoping to generate leads ...
Integrate direct mail with digital marketing

5 Clever ways to integrate direct mail with digital marketing

Many companies are obsessed with digital marketing—web pages, emails, social media, native advertising, and PPC ads. What gets lost in the shuffle is the effectiveness and value of integrated marketing: combining direct mail with ...
How to Use Data to Reach Your Target Audience

Data development: How to use data to reach your target audience

High-quality data is critical to the success of your marketing campaigns and your organization. It enables you to target, reach, and influence your ideal potential customers with laser-like accuracy. It empowers you to convert ...
HR Benefits Administration case study

Making benefits administration easy for Froedtert Health

Coordinating health insurance benefit enrollment mailings for over 16,000 employees is a Herculean undertaking, with many moving pieces, government regulations that must be followed and deadlines that must be met. That’s why Froedtert Health ...
How to use direct mail effectively

How to use direct mail effectively

There’s more to direct mail than meets the eye. Used properly, it can make a huge impact on the effectiveness of your company’s branding and marketing. It’s powerful, flexible and can be used to ...
Business is booming at American Fireworks, thanks to catalog

Business is booming at American Fireworks, thanks to catalog

For the last decade, the centerpiece of American Fireworks’ marketing program has been its 16-page annual catalog. This colorful printed piece contains details about its many products, coupons for fireworks discounts and information about ...
How to set up files for print

How to set up files for print

When it comes to preparing files for print, there are many details to remember. Image formats. Resolution. Fonts. Crop marks. Safe zones. It’s hard to keep them all straight! That’s why we created this ...
Color: Start your rebranding on the right foot

Branding color mistakes to avoid

When it comes to rebranding your company, your starting point matters – a lot.  If you choose wisely, the process of creating a new identity should proceed smoothly. If you choose the wrong starting ...