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Catalogues Are Part of a Balanced Marketing Diet

Monday, 1st April, 2013

108 people took NewPoint Media’s Catalogue Challenge; more than 20,000 covers were submitted The Offer: For a supposedly dead channel, print isn’t doing too badly. According to the Direct Marketing Association, roughly 12.5 billion catalogs—often featuring interactive elements such as QR codes, text codes, and augmented reality enhancements—are printed and mailed each year. To demonstrate [...]

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2013 Top 10 Trends for the Printing Industry

Friday, 22nd March, 2013

1. Digital Color is King. All bets are on digital color printing. InfoTrends research forecasts an increase from $29.6 to $39.5 billion in the retail value of  U.S. digital color from 2011 through 2016. 2. Digital Wide Format Goes Mainstream. Digital wide format printing evolves into an key component of companies’ marketing strategies, and will [...]

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XM Solutions are named one of the Deloitte Best Managed Companies for a third year running

Thursday, 7th March, 2013

XM Solutions are proud to be recognised as a Deloitte Best Managed Company in 2013, having demonstrated superior business performance for a third year running. We attribute our success to our strong client and supplier relationships, our people and our focussed leadership. The Deloitte Best Managed Companies Awards, in association with Irish Life Corporate Business, [...]

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The Future of Retail

Monday, 11th February, 2013

The Future of The Retail Store By Doug Stephens, the Retail Prophet Retail is dead! At least, that’s how Marc Andreessen sees it.  The entrepreneur and tech investor was recently quoted saying that all physical retail stores will die, succumbing eventually to the vast sea of online competition.  According to Andreessen, there will be one [...]

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How Tesco uses Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+

Monday, 4th February, 2013

Interesting article from econsultancy on how retail giant Tesco is using Social media….   Earlier this month I analysed the way that Walmart uses social media to engage with its customers, finding that it has built up a large following on each of the major social networks with the exception of Google+. By way of [...]

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Twitter + Print: Combining the New and the Old to Grow Your Business

Monday, 21st January, 2013

Much of the marketing buzz on the net for the past few years surrounds using social media and content marketing to build your brand on the internet. There is definitely a reason why a great deal of content talks about social media and online marketing; online marketing is effective, trackable, reasonably priced, and provides a [...]

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Using PURLs to Track Direct Mail Success

Monday, 7th January, 2013

Tracking and measuring analytics is critical in direct mail marketing. It’s never been easier to see if your campaigns are effective than it is now. Not only can you drive customers to specific landing pages or give them dedicated phone numbers to respond to, you can even give them personalised URLs (PURLs) that give you [...]

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XM Solutions launch Christmas Augmented Reality iPhone App.

Tuesday, 18th December, 2012

  The future is upon us and at XM Solutions we wanted to showcase how brands can truly bridge the divide between print and digital and what better way than with Augmented Reality. We firmly believe in “Do as we Do“ rather than “Do as we Say” so XM Solutions are proud to launch their [...]

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Print is still alive and kicking in this digital world

Wednesday, 12th December, 2012

a It is widely known that the printing industry has been in decline as brands and agencies migrate their marketing spend from traditional TV, Radio and Print to new digital media with platforms such as social media, online and mobile on the rise.  The question on everyone’s lips is whether, over the next few years, [...]

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