Web-to-print is a great solution for many companies these days, both large and small. This is the final set of tips from a three part series to illustrate some success factors related to web-to-print solutions. Think volume. The front-end dollar signs are often offset, not just by administrative savings, but by incremental price savings driven...
Three more helpful tips to help you succeed with web-to-print technology. This is the second in a three part series that covers helpful tips for companies that are using web-to-print solutions for marketing and document management. Think about pricing, not in terms of individual project cost or per-piece cost, but how the entire solution impacts...
Time savings There can be tremendous time saved by using the template-based structure of a web-to-print solution to create, re-size, and repurpose documents. Reduction in fulfillment errors Especially in a high-volume corporate environment, fulfillment is often handled manually, so human error rates can be very high. By moving to an automated system, errors can be...
Is managing the print and marketing collateral for your company driving you crazy? How do you think about your printed documents? Design them, contact a print provider, figure out the volume you can afford to print in order to keep the price per piece down, then hope you didn’t order too many? Balance the quality...
Notice the title of this blog is not digital printing but digital print marketing. Digital printing is simply a technology, while digital print marketing is a strategy to use that technology to run your business better. This series will examine some best practices to help you get the most out of digital print technology. Just...
In the 1988 baseball movie Bull Durham, Crash (Kevin Costner) mentors Nuke (Tim Robbins) about what clichés to recite to the media after a big win. Though not the brightest bull in the pin, Nuke, executes beautifully upon pitching his first no-run win in the majors by saying, “I’m just happy to make a contribution and...
Create. Implement. Measure. Repeat… At NextPage, everyday we learn from and refine our marketing processes. Our primary goal is to help you make money. Your return on marketing investment has two sides, the cost side and the revenue side. Here are 10 ways to improve both sides of the ROI equation with your direct mail campaigns:...
Last Week we discussed the results from a CMO Council Research entitled “Mapping + Tracking: The Optimal Marketing Supply Chain“. This overview pointed out four key actions marketers could take to Obliterating Obsolescence: Leverage Digital Printing Strategies Cross Functional Collaboration Go-Green to Gain-Green Bringing in the Big Marketing Supply Chain Brains While those are basic strategies any business can...
Research entitled “Mapping + Tracking: The Optimized Marketing Supply Chain” by the CMO Council, depicts a threatening picture of inefficiency and waste in the Marketing Supply Chain. This post summarizes this great research. As marketers seek to provide the timeliest and freshest content to customers and prospects alike, old, over-ordered or un-utilized materials tend to be...
Prompted by growing demands from CEO’s and CFO’s for greater accountability, marketers have begun to focus on improving the efficiency of marketing operations. They now recognize that improving the productivity of marketing operations can be a powerful way to stretch marketing dollars. The equation is simple. The dollars saved by improving the efficiency of marketing...
