Are Your Print Company Videos Optimized for Search Engines?
Video marketing is hot and print shop video marketing is getting even hotter in 2023. In fact, video is the fastest-growing trend in digital marketing. Why? Because video works. Videos have proven to be 53 times more likely to generate first-page rankings than other traditional SEO techniques. Live, short-form videos shot and edited from a […]
2022: A Year in Flux for Marketers
What a year in flux and uncertainty 2022 has been. COVID has receded, and life got back to some semblance of normal, but cases are up 50% over the past two weeks. Americans are as divided as ever, and the major political parties still have a winner-take-all attitude. But there are some signs that tracks […]
The Real Cost of Print Customer Acquisition
What does it cost you to get a new lead to your website from your digital marketing campaigns? The cost equation depends on a list of variables, such as your timing, your offer, your target audience, your competition, and your unique value proposition. Success also depends on factors like the creativity and appeal of your […]
How To Get Your Print Business Ranked High in Google Search
Getting your print company’s website organically ranked by search engines is one of the toughest digital marketing challenges you face. You have hundreds or thousands of competing businesses trying to beat you in the race to be found in Google searches for keywords like “printer” or “printing company” or some variation of a printing product. […]
Raise Your Voice: Conversational AI in a Multisensory World
Since joining the print industry as a trade journalist in 2015, I have walked many trade shows, attended many conferences, and experienced many incredible innovations. I look forward to a print event every time, and I love seeing technology both familiar and unfamiliar, faces both old and new. Earlier this year I had the pleasure […]
2019 Direct Mail Marketing Forecast: Seek and Google Shall Find
It’s that time of the year. Predictions abound about what technologies will take off, which will nudge their way closer to extinction, and how to benefit from all these changes. Every forecaster has their own strategy for making predictions. You can go on a wild flyer and claim brilliance if it happens to come true. […]
APP Turns Your Phone Into a Lightsaber To Celebrate Star Wars: The Force Awakens
It’s times like these that you have to LOVE the “digitals” and the awesome things they can do – especially around the Holy Grail of Uber-GEEK fandom, Star Wars! This post is from Digital Synopsis, and the site is a great resource for advertising information, inspiration and fun, covering multi-channels. Check it out… but first, […]
How Bad Design And Presentation Kills Good Business
By Roberto Blake “Presentation isn’t everything, it’s the only thing…” If you’ve never heard that quote before, it’s because it belongs to me. Your customers won’t get far enough to know whether your website or product works properly, fits their needs or has a great user experience, if they are immediately turned off by the […]
Your Email Newsletter Sends a Strong Signal to Google
One of the lesser-known benefits of a regular email newsletter campaign is to prime the pump on your prospect’s Google searches. I’m using “Google Search” intentionally, since Gmail, Google+ and Chrome users who are signed in will get different search results than those not using a Google product or not signed in. Here’s how […]
SEO for Printers: The Low-Hanging Fruit Your Competitor May Be Plucking
If you’re using SEO tactics to attract prospects to your website, you may be overlooking low-hanging fruit: Your own company name. If your company name is unique — not part of a chain or a large brand — then you might expect that your website would automatically rank first in online search results for that […]
SEO for Printers: Strategy Has to Come First
I know a business owner who spent thousands — many thousands — to have his website “search engine optimized” by stuffing it with keywords. Problem was, there was nothing on his site written for real people, only for bots. Furthermore, the site was disorganized, ugly and confusing. Everything seemed so backward from what he […]
What Printers Can Learn About Social Media from Skateboarding
By Katherine Tattersfield, Print Geek Since you’re on this site, I think it’s safe to assume that you “get” social media to some extent. Present company excluded, I’ve noticed a lot of printers asking for online marketing advice on LinkedIn. Since my background revolves around digital marketing, my fellow printing industry professionals want to pick my brain […]