Digital Printing & Direct Mail Blog

The Post Office just announced a 3% discount above and beyond the Standard and First Class rates for mailings in July and August that incorporate QR codes (in letters, flats, or postcards). This is ...

Print is powerful and its power is multiplied when used as part of a multi-channel campaign. Print enhances the impact of television, telemarketing and the internet by providing an extra dimension that’s warm, inviting ...

Trying to keep your direct mail costs down this year? There are three basic design methods to reduce mail volume and maximize postage discounts. But first, the basics. There are three basic shapes of ...

You probably have been seeing more QR codes lately. These are two-dimensional codes (most often in black-and-white but sometimes in color) that you scan or snap with your smartphone. They usually take you to ...

IFS is a public company founded in 1983 that develops, supplies, and implements IFS Applications™, a component-based extended Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) suite built on Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) technology. And even if you don’t understand ...

Heritage will be presenting a seminar “Choosing the right strategy to grow your business!” at the BizTimes Expo May 11th. Marketing choices are greater than ever and finding the right marketing mix is critical. ...

Last week Heritage won an Excellence Award at the BMA Bell Awards. The award, in the Direct Mail Lead Generation category, was for a campaign developed for Sharp Packaging Systems. The “Kiss the high ...

With the overall economy still down and with so many companies moving their marketing efforts online, mail volume has dropped tremendously. The resulting empty mailboxes present a unique opportunity. While competition to get noticed ...

In order to produce a successful 1:1 printing campaign, all you have to have is a great database, right? Not quite. Producing a successful 1:1 print campaign starts with having a great database, but ...

As a marketer, it’s critical to quantify the effectiveness of your marketing efforts. But how do you define success? Particularly with 1:1 printing, it’s critical to use the right yardstick. Let’s look at seven ...

It won’t be a surprise to anyone to say that developing and working with databases is one of the greatest challenges to success with 1:1 printing. And yet, we hear about companies—even small and ...

It is important to take the time to analyze your previous direct mail efforts to ensure a greater return on investment. If you don’t measure results, you won’t know which elements of your campaign ...

Every company has a brand. Your brand is simply what your customers think about you and how they spread that brand to others through word of mouth. Maybe you think you don’t have a ...

House of Harley relies on direct mail as an important part of their marketing mix. They know that compelling art and a clear message still have the power to stand out for the customers ...

Making a small effort to clean-up your database now will pay-off in a big way later. If you look carefully at your customer database, you will most likely find a high number of duplicates. ...

We hear a lot of people talking about how paper is bad for the environment or that paper is not a desirable way to communicate. In fact, paper is one of the few truly ...

Can’t figure out the best way for your customers to respond? Let them choose! There are a lot of factors that come into play for a direct mail campaign to be successful. People spend ...

Perhaps you’ve seen QR codes in magazine articles or on bulletin boards. They are very similar to barcodes you see printed on your mail or on products in the store, but instead of a ...