For many businesses, sustainable printing starts and ends with recycled paper. That is a reasonable place to start, but there’s much more to the picture. If your organization has real environmental goals, it is worth asking some deeper questions about how your print marketing is produced and managed.
Most business owners recognize this moment. You need a flyer, a postcard, or a brochure, and someone suggests using a DIY design tool like Canva. It’s fast, it’s free, and the results look reasonably professional. So why not? Because “reasonably professional” and “professionally designed” are not the same thing. In print marketing, that gap is important.
Marketers have long debated whether print or digital connects better with audiences. Neuroscience is starting to settle that argument, at least when it comes to how deeply people absorb and retain what they read.
Familiarity is a funny thing. The more often you’ve done something, the easier it is to assume you have it handled… and the easier it is to miss something basic. Preparing print files is no exception. The details change from job to job, but the fundamentals don’t. A checklist keeps you out of trouble.
Writing copy for print marketing has always been one of those tasks that feels harder than it should be. You know a postcard or flyer could bring in business, but you end up staring at a blank page trying to figure out what to say. That’s where a lot of small and mid-sized businesses get stuck.
Most companies attend one trade show a year. Yet most booth setups look like they were thrown together the week before. That gap is often why booth results disappoint.
You can have the best product on the market. You can price it competitively. You can have the fastest delivery and the highest quality. And you can still lose customers. Why does this happen? It happens when customers don’t feel valued.
We’re living in a digital world. Screens everywhere. Apps for everything. Yet research keeps proving that print does something digital just can’t match.
If you really want to know what is happening, you ask the experts, right? So, what do print industry experts (designers, marketers, print specialists) value about print? This question (“What appeals to you about print?”) was recently put to a variety of print industry professionals. The responses reveal why this channel continues to captivate people despite digital alternatives.
The power of a B2B direct mail piece isn’t just in the mailbox. It’s in the momentum it creates. You can send the most creative, high-impact dimensional mailer in the world, but if your sales team treats the follow-up as an afterthought, that investment is essentially “shelfware.”
