How to Increase Sales with IRC Labels 

What Are The Benefits To Using IRC Labels? Last week, I gave you some basic information about Instant Redeemable Coupon (IRC) labels. There’s a reason you see more and more of them today while shopping, or even browsing your favorite newspaper or magazine.  Actually,...

Drop Print for Digital Communications? Consumers Say “No Thanks!”

79% of Consumers Prefer Print You’ve probably experienced it yourself. You receive an invoice from a vendor encouraging you to drop print, “Go Paperless” and consent to receiving all further communication digitally. Many businesses imply an environmental benefit to...

Go On Vacation With Your Customers This Summer

Promotional Items Let Your Brand “Tag” Along! I’m just kidding in the headline, of course. No matter how well you get along with your clients and customers, they’d probably prefer to vacation separately! Still, chances are that a well-chosen promotional item...

3 Business Takeaways From New Print On Demand Paris Bookstore

Efficiency Gives Customers the Print-On-Demand Experience They Want Wait, what’s this?  A new bookstore opening?  You’ve all heard the pronouncements that, in one way or another, print is dead. Well, the opening – or actually re-opening – of...

Direct Mail With Video? Here’s a Marketing Approach You Have to Watch

Direct Mail with Video? Here’s A Marketing Idea That Really Needs Watching If you’re a regular reader, you know I like direct mail because current research shows that it’s a great way to separate yourself from competitors who think “all digital” is the only way to go...

How To Make Promotional Products Work for Your Target Market – Infographic

People are always asking me if promotional products actually work to increase awareness, leads and sales. After being in the industry all of my life, I can tell you emphatically that yes, indeed, promotional products can effectively market your brand by reaching your target market, increasing leads and sales…but you have to have a plan.

If you have multiple locations or many departments ordering promotional products, if you exhibit at a lot of trade shows or if you feel like you would like a better plan for your promotional product management, you are not alone.

Should You Use Promotional Products as Part of Your Marketing Strategy?

The things we need to have on our radar when it comes to marketing these days seems endless doesn’t it? Yet today more than ever, just like 25 years ago before digital was even a part of marketing strategy, relationships still matter. Creating a plan to build strong and lasting relationships through your marketing efforts, both online and off, should be a big part of your focus.

It’s All About Direct Mail – Infographic

A Working Guide to the Channel that WORKS I can remember a time when consumers were not particularly enchanted with direct mail. But amidst all the chaotic new developments on the marketing landscape in recent years, a strange and wonderful thing has...

How to Create Sales Opportunities with Promotional Products

Here’s How to Create Sales Opportunities with Promotional Products You wrestle with many important business decisions but often the task of choosing  promotional giveaways for trade shows, golf outings, sales calls and company events and initiatives gets handed...

6 Benefits of e-Procurement for Operations and Logistics

Control Quality and Costs Across Your Organization It seems like such a simple thing. You have different offices spread across the region or the country, but they use (or should use) the same forms, literature, and supplies. Everyone should be on the same page. But...

5 Ways To Get Your Business Noticed

Being Good Is Important…But So Is Being Seen There’s certainly no substitute for offering your customers a quality product or service when you run a business. Long-term success depends on it. Here at Superior Business Solutions, we pay plenty of attention to...

Want Great Marketing ROI? Just Try a Letter!

Why Not Just Try a Letter? When you are looking to get a great response to a print marketing campaign, have you ever considered just sending a direct mail letter? The results are in and as I recently told you, Direct Mail works, but why not just try a letter? Letters...

Armour Up Your Brand Merchandizing

Your Promotional Gear Can Be More Than Thrift Store Material Offering promotional gear is a great way to gain brand awareness, increase loyalty, and boost sales. But the market is littered with odds and ends like mugs, pens, and cheap T-shirts that end up filling...

How To Market Your Brand In Less Time

Promotional Products: A Swift Way To Stand Out If you want people to quickly discover your brand, there’s no better way to do that than with promotional products. Not only does it create brand advocacy that can lead to loyalty, it maneuvers your brand’s name and logo...

How To Quickly Create Brand Advocates

Advocacy Can Lead to Loyalty The key word in this article’s title is quickly. Every company knows the importance of brand loyalty, and most of them are focused in various ways on honing strategies to form relationships with their customers. But giving back to your...

How to Make the Most of a Sales Call

Calling prospects is a marketing strategy that will always be around because of its effectiveness. There are several strategies you can use to increase cold prospect penetration, and accelerate their interest in both taking your call and spending time talking to you....

Creating a Stronger Sales Strategy

Selling print is not going to get easier. You can’t change this highly competitive market or the scourge of digital advertising that’s plaguing many printers. What you can control is how you approach your own sales and marketing strategy.  If you feel like you are...