Media Buying: Only Getting What You Pay For?

November 28, 2018

When it comes to integrated marketing services, the range of programs can run the gamut depending on your company’s budget and its primary markets. For the high-tech and industrial B-2-B community, the mix of traditional and digital marketing methods continues to hover somewhere around a fifty-fifty split. This is partially a result of the narrow … Read More

Catalog Production: Are Personalization and Special Runs the Future?

July 11, 2017

Many SMS clients continue to use printed catalogs for a number of reasons and a few were recently explained in a previous post. I wanted to get into a little more detail and speculate about where catalogs may be going in the future. Let’s start with a response rate comparison to other promotional methods*: • … Read More

Catalogs: Why the Manufacturing Markets Still Love Them

June 26, 2017

As the SMS art department works through the latest updates to a valued customer’s product catalog, we add those same updates to their online e-commerce catalog. Why two places to shop for the same products? For some, old habits die hard. Experienced engineers, designers and OEM buyers have been reaching to their shelves and drawers … Read More