Printing Best Practices
Keys to Effective and Secure Variable Data Printing
Variable data printing (VDP) allows companies to personalize customer and member-based messages. According to an Adobe survey, 89% of marketers see a positive ROI when they use personalization in their campaigns. Using it wrong, however, can cost you money. Gartner reports that “in a survey of more than 2,500 customers, more than half report they…
Read MoreSave Money with Address Correction Services
Returned Mail and Associated Costs When a mail piece is returned to you as “undeliverable as addressed” (UAA), what does it cost you? It’s not just the design, production, and mailing costs, although those are important, too. There are other, hidden costs that balloon your costs even higher. Fortunately, with a few proactive steps, you…
Read More4 Best Practices for Overcoming Paper Shortages
As you are sure to have noticed, there is an industrywide shortage of paper. This is a challenge facing businesses and marketers from Boston to Los Angeles. The shortage is not just affecting paper for direct mail and commercial printing services, it’s affecting everything from envelopes to wide-format signage. There is an end in sight,…
Read MoreUSPS Announced Additional Price Increases
In collaboration with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), the United States Postal Service (USPS) announced additional price increases beginning on August 29, 2021. While the Postal Service called for increases back in January, 2021, this more expansive decision is part of the organization’s 10-year “Delivering for America” plan, hoping to balance company income alongside reasonable…
Read MoreHuman Behavior Changes Due to COVID: The Case for Personalization
Forever Changes While a lot of people are growing weary of the COVID pandemic and want to get on with life as we knew it, the fact of the matter is that the human experience has changed forever in the wake of this unprecedented (at least in our lifetime) new reality. Dare we say that…
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