What are your New Year’s resolutions? Are you like half of the population that have just stopped making resolutions all together? Well, now is the time to resolve to give your customers a great resource for their business and yours with the January edition of the Business Forum newsletter! Completely Focused. Completely Easy. The Business Forum is a complete package that’s delivered to you each month and filled with dynamic content aimed at professionals and focused on your target market. We do all the design and content work, all you have to do is print a perfectly completed asset. In this Issue What do professionals want? Great resources. This month we take a look at: analyzing marketing efforts working together as a team … and even a family piece on what to do with that new pet that arrived with holiday gifts. Diverse and ready to support your marketing efforts, the Business Forum will support your influence with your customers. Is Your Marketing Ready for 2018? So, what are you waiting for? Get a jump on your marketing for 2018 and boost customer interest for your printing and marketing capabilities with great print suggestions every month. Let us help you provide powerful
What moves business? Content. What kind of content grabs people’s attention? Printed content like the Business Forum newsletter. Engagement Made Easy Each month you can have fresh ideas that your customers will love to read. There is timely advice, always a great book to add to your customer’s knowledge base, and they will look forward to receiving something new (from you) every month. Our upcoming December issue points out that printed content is something that engages the brain more than any digital content. Want readers to spend time with your material? Then put your quality printing into their hands. Ready, Set, Go! The Business Forum monthly newsletter is a ready resource that arrives already finished and beautifully designed! You don’t have to spend time designing or copywriting because it’s already been done for you. Filled with dynamic content with a business focus, Business Forum gives an excellent work-life balance throughout. Boost customer interest for your printing and marketing capabilities with great print suggestions every month. Did we mention that yet? The most significant value the Business Forum direct mail newsletter offers are the suggested ideas for print assets your customers need for their business that you can provide. Call us at (800)
The November download of Business Forum is ready! A Time to Be Grateful November welcomes the season of giving, so be prepared to show your gratitude to your customers this November with eight pages of great content from the Business Forum. This issue is filled with great advice for overcoming fear and improving your business and your life. It’s an abundant gift that keeps on giving. With a new, beautifully designed issue each month, you can continuously deliver a dynamic resource that is relevant, packed with great business content, and includes interesting facts that make this resource a fun read. Let’s not forget that the Business Forum is filled with print suggestions to encourage your customers to expand their marketing, think creatively about their options, and most importantly, to call you for their print needs. In This Issue A few things you’ll see this month: Book Review: Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection by Jia Jiang. Advice for better meetings Growing your business Strategies for customer testimonials More… Get Connected Contact us today to get access to quality, original content on a regular schedule, giving you one more great way to connect
There’s no better way to show customers that you are a provider of useful assets, great design, and fantastic customer service than to distribute the Business Forum direct mail newsletter on a consistent basis. The October issue (August download) is almost ready, and this is the perfect time to decide to supply a copy to your target audience. Be Welcomed Into the Tribe Showing your knowledge and expertise is only part of the battle to win over consumers. They also need to adopt you into their tribe. Make that process easy by staying on top of their minds through monthly contact, like that of providing the Business Forum direct mail newsletter. It’s easy to use and filled with compelling content, including great reminders of different print resources you offer. In this Issue This month, we’re featuring: An article about choices that will help your customers think differently about their own list of products and services. Great advice for parents on sorting out what to do with Halloween candy as we hear from parent’s with a few tricks up their sleeves. An incredible book review sure to inspire your customers to remember the “A-hah” moment that inspired them to start their business. Packed
When you’re searching for content to help boost business, generate leads, and keep you on the minds of your current customers, getting a monthly copy of the Business Forum to distribute does all of this and more. Reliable Content You Can Count On High quality, original content on a consistent basis allows you to keep your concentration on creating great print assets for your customers and not on writing something new every month. Always timely and geared towards professionals, the articles focus on business tips, interesting tidbits, and printing ideas that are meant to spur them into making their print purchases with you, sooner rather than later. See What’s Featured This Month This month includes interesting ideas for business cards that use die cuts, interesting materials, and unique ways to match the card to the business. There are also tips for being smart about student debt and recognizing stressed employees so you can make the proper adjustments to keep good employees engaged. We take a new look at a book celebrating its ten year anniversary with an updated edition, sure to make your customers think differently about marketing to their niche. We also have some suggestions for saving the knowledge lost
In the midst of enjoying the summer season, it is not always fun to think about jumping into the fall season, knowing how fast the time goes. Helping your customers jump ahead in their planning for fall marketing projects and facilitating their forward thinking puts you in a value position in their business. Strengthen Your Influence Offering resources like the Business Forum each month will help to solidify your influence as a provider of timely and necessary products and advice. This month is packed with actionable articles that will expand your managerial skills. Whether educating your existing managers or helping you with what to look for when hiring a new one, your customers will appreciate the helpful advice. For the entrepreneur, we introduce some research on the percentage of kids who grow up in the family business and go on to start their own businesses. Kids in business families gain the value of an instilled work ethic and the benefit of being exposed to business environments at an early age. Look for the book review this month on Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant that every entrepreneur must read. Helping your customers think outside of the box
Celebrate your independence from the same old content this July and get in on the July 2017 Business Forum direct mail newsletter right away! This month is filled with a combination of actionable content for business owners or managers as well as articles that bring life into balance. Make Branding Stick with Promotions and Good PR PR is sometimes misunderstood and simply used as another word for marketing. In July’s issue, we take a look at what good PR should focus on. By separating out the things that PR is not, you’ll help businesses pinpoint a better PR strategy. As July rolls along, many organizations start to plan the promotional items they will hand out this fall. You’ll want to take advantage of this time with this issue that has great suggestions to use printed magnets to display everything from sports schedules to helpful household tips. Your customers and prospects will see how you can help them make their branding stick! Decompress the Stress Getting ready for fall is also on the minds of parents who have to think about childcare. Tips from Child Care Aware are included this month to help parents make the best choices for their families. Balancing family
Summer is on its way, and we couldn’t be more excited. The June 2017 issue of the Business Forum has us just as pumped! We’ve gathered some of the most helpful information to increase KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and get the most out of your team by finding their strengths and minimizing weaknesses. Strike the Perfect Work/Family Balance This month you can increase customer knowledge on useful tools that will increase productivity through a few of the best apps on the market. We’re not all work and no play this month. Many of the articles straddle both personal and professional life and the importance of family. You’ll find this month’s book review of “Grit” by Angela Duckworth to be a bridge between thinking of success in the professional sense and looking at your kids’ potential to discover how you can take steps toward influencing success in either situation. Another article this month gives your customers a few ideas on how to make their customer rewards programs more successful with a few simple ways to increase customer interest in signing up and increasing the return on any rewards efforts. Boost Interest With Print Call us today to get access to one of
The direct mail packages from Marketing Ideas For Printers couldn’t be easier! Each month we send you a link for a press-ready file of the text and artwork, two months ahead of publication. You drop in your logo and contact information, print, and mail to customers or prospects within your exclusive ZIP code(s), offering you the ability to produce consistent, reliable, high-quality content every month with minimal effort. But that doesn’t mean you get off entirely scot-free… Launch Into Something Great The reality is that any marketing campaign takes thought, planning, and a target to aim for. We desire to provide the best springboard for you to launch your monthly marketing campaign in a way that suits your print business and allows the greatest return on your investment. Part of that desire includes helping you discover ways to take the launchpad of the design and content we provide and then make it into something even better: your own. Hone In Here are eight ways that you can customize your direct-mail marketing to hone in on your target: 1) Build Your Samples Arsenal Photograph a collection of printed pieces you are proud of or save the artwork files of recent projects you’ve
Seeing the world through rose-colored glasses sounds like a good thing, right? It sure can be, except in print. When your printed images start taking on an extraterrestrial hue, it’s time to take the glasses off and see where this mystical glow is coming from. Recently, one of our customers experienced a rather “rosy” view of the images in our Direct Mail For Printers’ Business Forum newsletter package. Frustrated with the magenta casts and poor quality images, they contacted us looking for a solution. Our team suspected that double color management was to blame for the less-than-great print quality images our customer was experiencing. So, what is double color management? Simply put, double color management occurs when both the software and the output device are trying to control the color output values assigned to your document as it goes through the production cycle. This often causes hiccups and frustrations along the way. Double color management is a silent killer of good print quality because the settings are incredibly easy to miss and no error message is produced when the settings are incorrectly applied, The telltale sign of double color management is an unnatural pink or magenta cast to your print, in addition to very