digital communication

Direct Mail Marketers Get Gifts from USPS

By: Rich On: December 17, 2015 , , , , Comments Disabled
Direct Mail Marketers Get Gifts from USPS

Direct Mail Marketers Get Gifts from USPS

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The United States Postal Service just experienced what it projected as its busiest day of 2015. Of course in the weeks leading up to Christmas, the post office is on the minds of many as they await the delivery of gifts purchased online and from catalogs. This year, in addition to an ever-growing quantity of […]
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Printing is Different and Different is Good

By: Rich On: April 10, 2015 , , Comments Disabled
Printing is Different and Different is Good

Printing is Different and Different is Good

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This morning I finally got around to reading the print and communication industry articles that have been piling up in my feed for a few days. Of all of the headlines and synopses, this one in particular caught my eye; US Commercial Printing Shipments Have Strong February, +5.2%, by WhatTheyThink.com’s Dr. Joe Webb. As a […]
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Five Reasons Why Printed Marketing Materials are Still Important

By: Rich On: April 01, 2015 , Comments Disabled
Five Reasons Why Printed Marketing Materials are Still Important

Five Reasons Why Printed Marketing Materials are Still Important

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Despite the fact that we seem to live so much of our lives online, we are still physical beings living in a physical world. Regardless of how attached are to social media we still crave physical communication. For that reason alone, printed marketing materials are still important in today’s digitally saturated environment. Let’s take a […]
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Accessing Print Communication Innovation

By: Rich On: September 22, 2014 , Comments Disabled
Accessing Print Communication Innovation

Accessing Print Communication Innovation

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If you didn’t know any better, it would be easy to conclude that innovation in marketing and promotion is limited to the Internet. Technology is interesting, sexy and comes at us fast and furiously. True to form, the marketing world has continued to evolve along with – and at times drive – innovations in digital […]
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The Magic of Print – IKEA Gets It – and Makes Us Laugh Too!

By: Rich On: September 05, 2014 , , , Comments Disabled
The Magic of Print – IKEA Gets It – and Makes Us Laugh Too!

The Magic of Print – IKEA Gets It – and Makes Us Laugh Too!

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Common Sense – In Furniture and Marketing Leave it up to a company that has successfully made knock-down furniture, hex key wrenches and one-word names packed with Nordic accent marks stylish to not only get what makes printed communication important, but to make it sexy and desirable too. Taking a jab at the hype surrounding […]
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Linking the Hard Copy and Digital Worlds

By: Rich On: May 08, 2014 , , , , Comments Disabled
Once upon a time, back in the 1990s, everyone was making predictions about what marketing communications would be like in the new millennium. One prediction I recall seeing demonstrated – more through creative video editing than reality – was being able to hold a flier, postcard or advertisement up to a computer screen and see […]
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