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Are You Building a Business? Or a Brand?

You’ve built a successful business, with sales growing every year. Your bottom line looks great. Your profitability is up, too. You’ve built a business. But have you built a brand?

Color: It Does More Than Look Pretty

Did you know that color can impact our buying decisions? From vibrant reds to calming blues, each hue carries a subtle message. According to Colorcom, people make a subconscious judgment about a product within 90 seconds of initial viewing, and up to 90% of that judgment is based on color alone.

Planning an Event? You Need These 7 Tools

Are you planning an event? To maximize attendance, you need a comprehensive multichannel strategy incorporating various marketing tools. Let’s look at seven “must-have” elements to make your next event successful. Learn how in this week’s blog.

The Rule of Reciprocity

Have you ever noticed that you naturally want to return the favor when someone does something nice for you? As human beings, it’s a reaction that is wired into us, and it can be tapped as part of...

Why Personalized Print is the Greener Choice

As marketers, we love personalized printing. It offers a lower cost per lead. It also results in higher per order values and increased ROI. But there is another (often overlooked) benefit of...

Don’t Let the Paper Shortage Get You Down

As we move from the pandemic to the endemic phase of COVID-19, the U.S. economy has been surprisingly resilient. Sales have rebounded, and businesses and consumers are spending. But the supply chain hasn’t recovered as quickly as demand…

How to Measure Marketing Campaign Success

Are you measuring the success of your marketing campaigns correctly? It depends on what you are trying to accomplish. Do you want to boost brand awareness? Increase basket sizes? Ensure customer...

The Power of the Micro-Yes

Have you ever heard the term “micro-yes”? One small “yes” in a series of yeses moves the prospective new customer or member through the sales funnel one step at a time. The key is that, at each...

How to Make Your Direct Mail Stand Out

Did you know that people don’t read their direct mail randomly? There is a flow to where their eyes naturally go, and their eyes land on specific areas of the envelope or letter before others. These...

How Do You Really Measure Success?

What makes a great customer? Is it the one who places a huge order once, but never again? Or the one who places small orders but orders from you consistently year after year? We need to measure...

5 Tips for Nonprofit Success in 2022

Nonprofit leaders continue to face the ongoing challenges of fundraising in an increasingly competitive market. But the most recent “Nonprofit Leadership Impact Study” from NonProfitPRO shows that...