Marketing

As a digital marketing company, we place a lot of emphasis on digital design and marketing. However, our driving vision is to be “your source for impactful digital AND print marketing solutions.” Your unique branding and design are important and relevant in both the digital and print realm. We believe that traditional marketing has a very real place today even in the digital age.

Information used to be available at the touch of your fingertips, but now it's available using the sound of your voice. Voice command – or voice recognition – technology in its current form has been around for about a decade now. In a nutshell, voice command technology refers to the use of audible verbal commands to launch a search query.

The new year 2019 is right around the corner, so we thought it would be good to look at what some experts are seeing as the future trends in digital marketing. Marketing is no longer a static activity, where a billboard or ad in a magazine or telephone directory was all businesses needed to do to attract customers or clients.

A new year is a great time for evaluation of current strategies and practices in many areas of our lives. If you’re part of a small business or organization, take some time over the next few weeks to think about your marketing strategy goals to ensure that you’re ready to start the new year.

Today, as always, the primary role of marketing is to attract visitors, convert them into potential leads, assist sales personnel in closing them as clients, and keep them coming back. But in our current landscape, customers are moving away from consuming traditional media and are depending more on the digital world. And so, we must ensure that we’re utilizing the most impactful online marketing technology to reach our customers where it really matters. While there are many tools in the digital marketing landscape, we’ve narrowed it down to 7 fundamental ones for your 2019 marketing strategy.

None of us need any reminders that the holiday season is upon us – and that means increases in consumer spending. Experts expect consumer spending during the holiday season (roughly Halloween through New Year’s Day) to increase by nearly 5% in 2018 with e-commerce spending expected to increase about 14% over the holiday period in 2017.

Even in the digital age, direct mail remains a key component to any marketing strategy, and, in some instances, can even be more effective. Direct mail marketing uses a mail service (such as the US Postal Service) to deliver some form of promotional piece of printed material directly to your target audience, including catalogs, brochures, sales ads, postcards, and newsletters.

Just when you thought Google couldn’t possibly come up with any other ways to be a part of your life, there’s Project Beacon! Although it’s been around for a little while, it’s only recently begun to be noticed and talked about. The rationale behind this new product goes something like this: Google knows that our cell phones have now become such an integral part of daily life that we turn to them many times each day. And, one of the things we look for is location information about somewhere we want to go, how to get there, and what other folks think about that location.

Printing is printing, right? Not exactly. Traditional – or analog – printing methods (such as offset printing) require printing plates to transfer an image or text onto a media substrate. Digital printing presses transfer the image directly onto the media substrate.