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I’ll come clean. I use a weekly planner to keep track of everything I need to do and then cross it off the list. There is nothing quite like the smug sense of achievement as another task is obliterated from my weekly schedule. And I’m not the only one. The increase in weekly planner printing at A Local Printer is testimony to the fact that there is a place in this world for having everything for the week ahead in front of you, available at a glance.
This one is printed by our friends at Green Gables.
Whilst I use my planner for listing my ‘to-do’ work items and memory jogging notes, there are plenty of other ways a planner can be used and designed to incorporate more than just tasks and events. Here are a few of my favourite uses……
A brilliant off-shoot of the colouring book craze is the shortage of coloured pencils that are being snapped up by serial colouring-in addicts! Good news though for a market that had probably endured a flat or declining manufacturing for the last decade with double digit growth currently being enjoyed. It just goes to show that every so often an unexpected idea turns up and takes off with amazing proportions. So how can you use custom colouring books as a weapon in your promotions armoury?
Calendar Printing has two main avenues of use – the retail industry that sells them as a product, and businesses that uses them as a promotional tool. For small businesses calendar printing is a great opportunity to increase brand awareness; it is suitable for every type of business and has a broad appeal. In terms of marketing it is probably the most effective tools as, along with desk pads, it keeps the company name on display for the whole of the year.
If getting calendars printed for business seems like a no-brainer keep these 6 tips in mind to ensure you and your customer gets the best from your calendar offering.
Leaflet printing is ideal as an inexpensive marketing tool for businesses of every size. Whether your business is a beauty parlour or a poodle parlour, a take-away or a delivery service, a leaflet is an effective way to tell everyone about your business and the services that you offer.
To get the best results and maximum return on the investment in your leaflets you need to consider your target audience, where you will find them and how you will communicate with them.
No matter what quantity you are considering, your brochure printing can benefit from thought at the initial design stage to ensure that the cost involved is money well spent. There are tips and tricks to make sure you get the best value for money without compromising on design or quality.
Introducing the quickest and most versatile of all marketing and promotion tools – sticker printing. For some reason the marketing virtue of stickers is overlooked, but you really can do so many wonderful things with them! Custom printed stickers are a very quick and affordable way to incorporate brand identity and special offers in pretty much most areas of business.
We have been using recycled paper for our website products since 2006 and have seen a few changes to the material in those 10 years. For many of our customers printing on recycled paper is what led them to us in the first place, but there is still an element that has a fear that printing on recycled paper is going to be inferior. Allow me dispel that unfounded myth forthwith!
An attractive design for your marketing goes a long way to inviting attention and has the ability to turn the recipient from a prospect to a customer. Getting your design right cannot be emphasised enough; time taken at this stage will pay dividends, so be prepared not to rush headlong in to the design stage but take a structured view on what you want to achieve, any call to action and how best to present this out in a structured and appealing manner. If in doubt use the experience of your printing company to offer advice, assistance or even a full design service for your flyer printing.
Getting the best from your postcard marketing hinges on the content and design, so not to be taken lightly! For truly a truly effective postcard campaign there are a few critical elements that you need to get nailed on straight away – and this is where a little planning comes in to play. Perhaps the best tip before embarking upon any designing is to think like your customer. What terminology do they recognise and understand, what would inspire them as a call to action, what type of offer would be best received? Get all of this right and the rest should be a piece of cake. Read on for our print postcard pointers!