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Kick-Start Your Next Rebate Program
Rebate programs are a great way to build brand awareness, strengthen customer loyalty, boost sales, and reach price-conscious consumers. Such programs allow retailers to maintain the cost of a product while offering a payment, once certain conditions are met, back to the consumer at a later date. According to Consumer Reports, nearly 70% of customers take advantage of rebate programs yearly. While some…
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Informed Delivery & HIPAA
Informed Delivery is modernizing direct mail. The USPS has hit a double, if not a home run, with this service offering. Informed Delivery enables daily morning emails to consumers with images of the mail in their mailbox appended with images and links from the marketers who have sent them. There is a strong case to…
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The Results are in – Humans Win!
Technology helps to improve our lives and makes things more convenient. However, it can also leave us feeling frustrated and incompetent. When something does go wrong, as things inevitably do, it’s nice to know we can pick up the phone and find someone who can offer help. Or can we?
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How an EDI System Makes Manufacturing More Efficient
Many companies, especially manufacturers of durable goods, face constant pressure to reduce cost of goods sold on a year over year basis. Labels, inserts, manuals, tech sheets and cartons have become a commodity, and it’s tougher each year to lower your cost as paper prices and freight costs fluctuate. Increasing efficiency, reducing cost and adding…
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Six tips for signage that packs a punch
One-tenth of a second. That’s how long it takes for people to form a first impression. That’s according to a study conducted by Princeton University. That’s not much time for your retail signage to make an impact. With thousands of signs and messages screaming for a potential customer’s attention at any given time, is your…
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Put the Customer Back Into Customer Service
The US has been in a “service economy” for several decades so with all that experience behind us, you would think we would be pretty good at service by now. But that is not what many people see and experience in their daily interactions and the question is, why? The answer leads us to a…
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Top four benefits of a distributed marketing program
Managing a brand nationally and locally can be a challenge. While corporate teams need to define and manage brand standards and consistency, local organizations require the flexibility to determine strategies that work within those standards, on a local level, with their specific customer base. One way to mitigate some of the complexities of national (and…
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How VMI Technical Publications Make Assembly Lines More Efficient
Every plant manager and manufacturing executive leader dreams of an efficient assembly line. Efficiency leads to cost savings. Whether we’re talking minutes shaved off a process or seconds, it all adds up. People look everywhere for inspiration, from looking at other countries to exploring specific styles like Lean Manufacturing. One solution to adding efficiency (and…
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Augmenting Warehouse Services with Print on Demand
While Print on Demand (POD) may not be new to the marketplace, it is still often underutilized against its potential value add, either implemented as a standalone program as an alternative to warehoused offset printed materials, or as fully customized collateral. While both these approaches have their merits, the largest value can be found when…
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