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How to Increase Marketing Coverage With the Same or Less Marketing Spend

It’s hard to imagine anyone who would not want to increase marketing coverage. Today, with tightening budgets, it’s even harder to imagine anyone who would not want to increase marketing coverage with the same or less marketing spend. The key is not found in the latest trends in creative, online marketing or social media. It […]
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Defining Roles – Print in 2015

We’re nearing the end of January. Much of the marketing communications community’s attention has changed focus to Sunday’s world championship of multimillion dollar television spots. That means I’m finally safe from being cliché and riding the new year bandwagon if I talk about the role of print in 2015, right? Okay, maybe I’m still being […]
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Shipping and Logistics Sector Saves Over 30% in First Half of 2014 with eLynxx

Increasing efficiency and reducing costs is a key factor in the way organizations in many sectors, including shipping and logistics, do business today. Faced with a highly competitive marketplace, the use of custom-printed marketing communication materials has become crucial to the brand building and customer loyalty efforts of shipping companies and courier services. Organizations must […]
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Accessing Print Communication Innovation

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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Going Green in Print Marketing – What to Look For

In a time when the world is struggling to save its natural resources, many organizations have adopted green business practices as part of their policies. There is rightful pride to be had in choosing to follow green policies which leads many organizations to publically proclaim their stance on doing their part for a better environment. […]
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July 4th…Ice Cream…and Branded Packaging?

I live and work in Pennsylvania. If you are familiar at all with the Keystone State you might know that several places in our fair commonwealth have had a little something to do with why we celebrate Independence Day. What you may not know is that our climate can go from arctic to sub-tropic within […]
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The Marketing Supply Chain Field Guide: Part 10 – Materials in the Chain (continued)

Last week we began dissecting the catch-all term “marketing materials” to discover just what kinds of items may be flowing through your marketing supply chain. Even as we began our exploration with some of the more common, old-standby sort of marketing communication tools, we saw that there was much more complexity than the simple and […]
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