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 […]
Social Media For Your Print Business (Part 2 of 2)
Executing an effective social media for your print business is easier said than done. After all, social media marketing can be ambiguous. ROI is hard to measure. “Going viral” is close to impossible. So why even try? Because social media, across its various platforms, is and will always be one potential step in your future […]
Digital Marketing for Printers in 2022: A Year To Remember
For many printers, digital marketing in 2022 was like a rickshaw ride on a rolling cobblestone road. Fast, bumpy, fun, scary, rewarding, painful, interesting, and exhilarating. Things moved fast in the first few months of the year, mostly due to the macroeconomic post-pandemic surge. Consumers and companies were excited about getting “back to normal” as […]
Improve Public Relations with These 6 Social Media Steps
Many, maybe most, companies still don’t understand how to use social media to improve their business. There are many ways that social media can help: Customer service Identify and engage with prospects Generate prospects with social advertising Public Relations Customer service is arguably the most important of these, but it doesn’t need to take much […]
The Omnichannel Generation – How Young People are Getting Social With Print
Has anyone checked their Screen Time report on their phone lately? I was deeply shamed by my iPhone this week. I’d like to say it was all long-form journalism and educational podcasts, but to be honest, too much of it is pointless scrolling through social media thanks to lockdown-induced boredom. I love being at home […]
3 Ways to Achieve Global Glory on International Print Day (#IPD19)
Greetings Citizens of the Printerverse! It’s October and that means our industry holiday is on the horizon. International Print Day (IPD) is global celebration of print through social media for 24 hrs. The party starts at 6PM ET in the United States on October 22nd (9AM in AEDT in Australia / 11AM NZDT in New […]
An Important Message from Realtors to Printers: Location, Location, Location
Google loves to reward local businesses. And, Google wants to deliver accurate local results to those doing online searches. For that reason, printing businesses should take advantage of an easy and effective way to be found online: LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! Location marketing shows local customers you are interested in them! Yet so many printers do […]
How Snapchat Could Help Your Print Sales And More
Lately, many business owners have asked me about Snapchat. Snapchat is a mobile app that is geared to people under age 35, but mostly to teens. It uses storytelling, visuals, sequential imagery, group conversations and other elements that are common to the platforms we know. What’s different about Snapchat is that the posts are temporary. […]
Print Media Centr Readers Pick The Best Posts Of 2016
Greeting Citizens of The Printerverse, CMYK Enthusiasts, and Print Media Centr Readers… Happy almost New Year! No better time to look back and share some annual history with you. Here is a bit of statistical site info and some quick links for the Top 10 posts on PMC in 2016! PMC attracted readers from all over the planet […]
Election 2016: And The Loser Is YOU And Social Media
We have all heard that politics and religion should be avoided as dinner and social media conversation, yet these last few months most of us have been sucked into some sort of commentary about the heated US Presidential Election – myself included. And yes the election is over, but debate over the issues and the […]
International Print Day Aims to Trend Worldwide on October 19th
A 24-hour celebration without borders, International Print Day (IPD) will throw open its virtual doors to the global community on Wednesday, October 19th – and everyone is invited. IPD’s organizers encourage anyone with an interest in the original communication delivery device better to join the planet’s largest conversation about print in all its forms, hosted […]
[VIDEO] Social Climbing: Reaching The Top One Share At A Time
This panel focuses on social media as a collaborative channel for education, marketing, sales and communication with customers and prospects by sharing social success stories. #PrintChat-ers please join us in the booth and from home! Panelists: Avanti, Xerox, RSA, InfoTrends, INKISH.TV Download the panel brochure PDF!