Is Your Print Sales Team Holding You Back?
In my work consulting with sales and marketing teams in printing companies, I hear a common refrain from the marketing side: “Sales reps want more print sales from leads, but they’re not converting the ones they have.” Sales managers agree that “lead burning,” as I call it, creates morale issues and generates antagonism between sales […]
Print Samples: What DO YOUR Business Cards Say?
Before every trade show, event, or customer meeting, look at your business cards. What do they say about you and your company? Do they give your company, name, title, and contact details? Perfect! They should. But if you stop there you miss an opportunity to create a billboard for your story. A couple of years […]
Dscoop’s Edge Rockies Signals The Print Industry is Back To Business
Community is a word that gets watered down through overuse in the print industry, but there is honestly none better to describe Dscoop. These are passionate, innovative, and creative people working towards a collective common goal – forging a path to a successful print future. I was in the moment Dscoop called to work together […]
How A Customer Reference Program Can Help You Sell More Print
This blog is part 2 of a 3-part series: Maximize New Opportunities Through Current Customers How many print buying prospects have you quoted that say they want to “think about it.” Maybe they do, maybe they don’t, but delayed buying behavior like this often occurs when the prospect is on the fence. They aren’t quite […]
Explore Print Sample TV: Even More Print Samples!
A few weeks ago, we had a chance to create a bucket of new episodes of Print Sample TV! We have some cool things coming, including a look at some new options for enhancing print with foil, new inkjet technologies, and some great ideas for how to create your own print sample set, complete with […]
Have QR Codes Finally Reached Their Glory Days?
QR codes have been used by marketers since early 2010. As smartphone adoption increased, phone manufacturers and marketers realized the camera on the phones could be used to scan the codes. The hope was that response rates would increase as consumers find scanning a QR code an easy way to respond to printed advertising. QR […]
Print Samples! Tell a Story with YOUR Business Card
Do you carry business cards? Some people have started to avoid them and exchange phone bumps to transfer contact details. Others take pictures of the card but don’t accept it to transport home. I’m an avid business card collector. They help me remember the contact and put some context around the conversations. Sometimes I run […]
Beat the Summertime Blues One Week at a Time
I’ve been there and I’ve done it. Summer comes. You take your foot off the gas pedal a bit. You tell yourself that people are on vacation. Things are “slow”. And you’re not wrong. People ARE on vacation. Things DO slow down. But this is 2021. This is a different year, and you are a […]
How To Remain Relevant By Embracing Change
I wasn’t going to do it. I wasn’t going to write about lessons learned a year into our shared COVID-19 experience. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that the pandemic is a continuation of the constant change we experience. Technology increases the rate of change in society as well as […]
The Sales Overwhelm and How Ted Lasso Helped Me Solve It
If you are tired of hearing me take some liberal leaps and tie TV shows, Broadway musicals, and movies into lessons about sales and printing, perhaps you had better give this blog post a pass. Because I am about to regale you with my obsession with TED LASSO. I seriously was blown away by this […]
Offer Direct Mail Retargeting to Your Clients
Most visitors to come, view one or a few pages, and go away. These website visitors are anonymous – their identities are unknown. For a business-to-business website, it is common for <1% of website visitors to fill out a form and reach out. 3% would be considered a good conversion rate. In the best case, […]
Simply the Best – Sales Lessons from “Schitt’s Creek”
Not only am I a TV junkie, but I like to fancy myself a trendsetter (kinda). And so, I am proud to say that I have been watching Schitt’s Creek since it premiered on the POP TV network back in January of 2015. If you have never seen it and you like comedies, I would […]