Want to boost the results of your next marketing campaign? Give customers a choice in how to respond. You might be thinking, “What do you mean? We provide a phone number or website address. Isn’t that enough?” Not necessarily. Customers have different personalities, different lifestyles, and different preferences. The easier you can make it for…
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Quick! Define commercial printer. “What? You mean the guy who prints my stuff?” If that was your answer, maybe it’s time you took another look. At one time, the printer was the guy with ink under his nails. He wasn’t the idea man. He was the guy who ran the press. He knew paper. He…
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Our storefront solution offers our clients a different way to manage their marketing collateral and digital assets. Through a branded browser-based web portal, our customers can monitor the effectiveness of their marketing material, order print-on-demand material and fulfill orders through a real-time inventory system. Some of the many things our Storefront Solution can perform for…
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BPI Media Group offers a special feature on our digital press that can make any printed piece have a 3-D effect. Our Kodak NexPress can give texture to your product to make your direct mail piece, tradeshow handouts or the cover a book jump out from the competition’s material. By simply building a texture with…
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When we think about color in print marketing and direct mail, we think about stunning images and eye-catching graphics. But color packs a punch in letters, product brochures, and other text-heavy documents, too. What makes color so powerful? Here are just a few of the benefits that color provides: Increases recall dramatically. Studies show that…
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One of the best uses of your marketing dollars is to protect your existing customer base. You’ve worked hard to earn their loyalty. Now you want to keep it. Consider the benefits of utilizing customer surveys. Let’s look at an example: A regional grocery store chain was experiencing increased competition from a large national chain…
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When you think about evaluating the success of a 1:1 printing campaign, how long a window do you use to determine the dollars it generated? Do you cut it off after a week? A month? Several months? What about the lifetime of the customer? Lifetime customer value (LCV) is an overlooked metric that needs to…
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Want to boost response rates? Think “multi-touch, multi-channel.” These campaigns increase awareness and retention and boost response rates, too. When one manufacturer wanted to introduce a new product, for example, it created a snazzy, four-color mailer addressing recipients by name and encouraging them to log into a personalized URL to sign up for a sweepstakes…
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Did you know that you could spend less on a direct mail campaign and actually see better results? It’s true. It’s not about marketing less. It’s about marketing smarter. Let’s take a look at a real campaign produced for a travel company. Let’s call it BPI Travel Company. In the past, BPI Travel Co mailed…
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Did you know that one of your deepest wells for bigger profits is your lapsed customer base? These are customers who have done business with you in the past, but for some reason have not come back. This isn’t always due to discontent with your company. Sometimes it’s forgetfulness. Sometimes people simply want to try…
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