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When your customers think of excellence in printing, does your name immediately come to mind? Fall is an excellent time to refresh your image, making you the creative professional your customers think of first. Here is some of the terrific content coming your way in the September issues (available now!) to help you rank top in class! [New White Paper!] Dynamic Influence: Becoming a Thought Leader in Your Industry Would you like to increase your strategic visibility, advance your career, or create top-of-mind awareness for your business? Thought leadership requires a combination of tools, experience, and effort. The latest white paper provided by Marketing Ideas For Printers is now available and features three strategies to grow visibility and 10 content tools your clients can use to expand influence. The personal and professional benefits of thought leadership are considerable: “Positive exposure creates a snowball effect: influencers receive invitations to join corporate boards, experience increased opportunity for promotion or awards, gain access to people, and participate in industry-changing leadership roles . . . People who excel in their purpose as leaders are invigorated as they shape policies, set precedents, mentor people, and create models for others to emulate. An enduring legacy is

Sharp marketing can put the wind at your back! Here’s a preview of the content geared at giving your business growing momentum this month: Printer’s Press Want to keep your print products in the limelight this month? Printer’s Press lights up the night featuring outdoor evening entertaining, Kit Kat’s chunky chocolate direct mail teaser, an “American Riviera,” Big Sur spotlight, and attention-grabbing table tent promotions. Coach your clients on these easy “pop-up promos” for trade shows, meetings, luncheons, and more in the June issue now available for download. Business Forum Repetition brings recognition. Give your name staying power with this month’s Business Forum, offering four tips for successful direct-mail campaigns, strategies for dealing with office interruptions, guidance for avoiding the “Summertime Slump,” and life skills for cultivating independence in kids. The June issue offers app spotlights, a “Magnetic Marketing” book review, and ideas for custom corporate notes like greeting, welcome, and thank you cards. Local Edge When school is out, schedules get crazy. Offer your clients a stress-free shortcut with the content from this month’s Local Edge: “Specializing in Impossible Deadlines. Why burden yourself with time-consuming details or impossible deadlines? From concept to completion, we can design and manage every

All printers want to sell more printing, but many tend to overlook the impact that white papers have on reaching that goal. What are White Papers? A white paper is an “authoritative report or guide meant to help readers understand an issue, solve a problem, or make a decision”. They provide an in-depth study on a specific topic. What’s great about providing your print buyers with white paper content is YOU are the authority in that definition, and you’re using that authority to help your audience solve their sales or marketing problems using print. The Benefits of White Papers for Printing and Marketing Companies Along with addressing or solving a problem for the reader (which is a benefit in and of itself), white papers offer many other benefits as well. White papers help generate leads. White papers help you be seen as an industry thought leader. White papers are typically geared towards a B2B focus, building powerful corporate relationships that help shore up your bottom line. White papers give you an edge over the competition when used as a valuable resource to your print buyers. White papers help influence the buying decisions of your print buyers. A 2015 Eccolo Media

Who do your customers turn to for advice about which marketing pieces will get the most bang for their buck? You want your customers and prospects to rely on you for advice and guidance instantly. Providing expertise that will lead to more print projects is the ideal outcome, and we’ve just uploaded a new white paper to the websites provided by Marketing Ideas For Printers that can help you do just that. It’s All About the Content The best marketing pieces are all about great content, and what better content is there than successful case studies? A well-done case study proves the value of the products and services provided and is an absolute necessity in today’s marketing climate. Help your customers create amazing stories about their product or service with this new white paper. It will lead them to take advantage of your design and print services to spread the word about their success. Here’s a little excerpt from “Writing A Successful Case Study”: A great case study will target a particular business goal or industry with a highly-tailored solution. It will be focused down to a specific area or a specific type of customer. The key is to simplify the

At some point in your life, we suspect that your mother (or someone else equally influential) taught you the value of sharing. Virtual sharing on the internet isn’t quite the same as the physical sharing our moms taught us, but it’s still important. The importance of sharing is what brings us to today’s big update: sharing the high-quality content on your website from Marketing Ideas For Printers is now a much bigger deal, thanks to a recent website update! Here’s what we mean. Take a look at these pages on a Marketing Ideas For Printers’ website: The Ideas Collection Greatest Treasures Sales and Marketing White Papers These are high-value areas on each website that receive new content from Marketing Ideas For Printers on an ongoing basis, so you’ll want to make sure this content gets shared! Here are two ways to make your mom proud and make sure everything gets shared: 1) You do the Sharing Every time new content shows up in these areas, you’ll want to share the new content through your social media channels. The new sharing icons on those pages make it super-easy to share the content with your social media friends, followers, and connections. Go to your website and give it a

You become even more valuable to your customers when they begin to see you as more than “just” a printer. Your knowledge doesn’t end at putting ink on paper; it continues way beyond that. For instance, you’re also an expert when it comes to helping your customers with their rebranding! How do we know? Because we just added a new white paper to your website (if you’re using a site from Marketing Ideas For Printers, that is!) Here’s one brief quote from the white paper: You may have been thinking about rebranding for a while now, wondering if it’s the right time, if it’s a sound investment, and perhaps, just how long it will take. With a great plan, great partners to help you, and enough brainstorming, rebranding really can be a painless process and a worthy investment. Read the complete white paper here, on one of our public demo websites. Just think of all of those new print orders that will follow when your customers see you as the expert they can turn to when they’re ready to rebrand!

The 76.7 million workers in the millennial age group have a buying power worth $1.3 trillion. They’re the largest group in the workforce today with yesterday’s boomers passing the torch to today’s millennials. Here’s some great news about millennials: They respond favorably to paper and print marketing! How do you reach this group? When your website is powered by the content provided by Websites For Printers, you can help your print-buying customers send the right message to this influential population by providing them with the newest white paper, Marketing to Millennials. This white paper contains facts and statistics that highlight the millennial’s buying power, a mini-case study featuring the millennial messaging used by TOMS shoes, and information about how millennials view both digital and print communications. See for yourself! Here’s the Marketing to Millennials white paper as it appears on a Websites For Printers demo website.

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