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Saturday, August 30, 2014

ATTRACT ATTENTION WITH AKUAFOIL CARDS, FLYER AND BROCHURES


Do you want people to stare at and remember your new business cards, postcards and flyers? Why bother printing them if they don’t attract attention? With all the business cards and other printed stuff you see every day, it gets harder to pay attention to them. If you want to stand out, you need something that will be remembered.

Full color foil AkuaFoil cards and flyers and brochures are a unique eye candy marketing pieces that captures and holds the receiver’s attention. Everybody that gets a color foil promotion plays with it, tilting it in the light to see its colorful reflections. Another advantage is that they get passed around so others can see this unique printed marketing tool.

AkuaFoil cards, flyers and brochures are very affordable and worth the extra cost for their big bang for the buck. Colored foil can be used on business cards, social cards, postcards, trading cards, greeting cards, stickers, labels, flyers, brochures and posters. They are available in many sizes. Depending on the product ordered, you can choose from overall UV or spot UV coating as well as no coating at all.

Colored foil is easy to add to any design. The instructions are simple.  You just need to make an extra file that is a 100% black mask showing where the foil goes. You can use as many CMYK colors as you want. You can even make blends and color gradations on both sides of the paper.

The process to print foil on card stock or coated paper is known as cold foil printing. The way it works is silver foil is laminated on the paper where your mask is. The standard 4 color process inks are then transparent so that a silvery effect becomes the color in your design. Hot foil stamping is much more expensive because you need custom-made magnesium dies for every color you use. With hot foil, you can’t make colors blend and gradated. Only solid colors can be used in the hot stamping process.

The whole idea of print marketing is to be noticed and remembered. As I said before, you need something that grabs attention. Akuafoil full color foil is the perfect affordable solution to improving a business’ branding. There are so many ways to use Akuafoil printed products for advertising, direct mail marketing, packaging, social events, trade shows, meeting and conferences, fundraisers and anything else you can think of to improve your business’ ROI.

Thursday, July 10, 2014

PRINTING SERVICES FOR STARTUP BUSINESSES

A budget for a marketing plan is most important first step in developing a new business. This is your path to reaching new customer. Of course the best way to start is to use cross marketing, both printing and internet to attract customers. But with a low budget many small business can’t do both.

Full color printing online is cheapest and faster way to getting your message out to lots of people in a short time. Every business needs business cards to hand out. Most business use direct mail postcards, flyers and brochures as standard marketing tools to advertise promotions and new products and services.

Custom printed top quality full color business cards make an impressive first impression. You will need to attract attention, get noticed and remembered. There are many business card options to choose from.  A standard business card should be printed on 14 or 16 point card stock with products on 20 and 21 Pt  plastic stock with round corners. Anything less will feel cheap and flimsy and if it’s heavier it will be to stiff. Inexpensive business cards should be printed in full color with choices of high gloss UV coating, matte / dull coating or no coating. You can write on matte or uncoated cards. High gloss spot UV coating on selected areas on your can add flair to your business card with cards to create a matte / high gloss effect.  It’s a little more expensive but worth it if you want to stand out.

EndurACE cards and flyers on printed on 10 Pt. water proof, tear and fade resistant synthetic paper. It’s the perfect solution for harsh environments both indoors and out.


If you want a truly unique business cards that is so unforgettable it will be remembered even if your name is forgetting choose a WOW FACTOR supper card with eye candy. Choose an elegant smooth silk laminated card that is water and tear resistant. Add spot UV coating and / or stunning gold or  silver foil.

Akuafoil cards print every CMYK color into foil. They are printed  on heavy 16 Pt. card stock and you You can make as many foil colors you want and mix them to make solids, blends, gradations and halftones. You can choose between no coating, UV coating or spot UV  coating. Foil cards are not as expensive as you may think. They use a cold foil process that does not need expensive dyes or hot foil stamping. The foil is printed on the business card using a process using a process the was reserved for book covers, labels and packaging. This foil printing service is not available for business cards, postcards and flyers.

Plastic cards are very popular because they are an eye magnet that’s sturdy. They are available in clear, frosted and white plastic. They last for a long time. They come with rounded corners in your choice of 1/8 or 1/4 inches.  Standard business card size is available on 20 pt stock or

Lenticular cards can tell a story in 2 or 3 flips. They are printed on 21 Pt. card stock and come with rounded corner  to protect for sharp edges. Most lenticular card are printed in China so thay have to go through customs and take a long time to be delivered if there is a problem you will have to pay to print them again. We print lenticular right here in the United States and they are a 100% guaranteed to be printed correctly from you files.  


Postcards are a  great marketing tool. Most of the business card effect are available with postcards.
Local businesses can take advantage of Every Door Direct Mail (EDDM), a USPS service the distributes mail to every home and home and business in your selected carrier route for $ .175 each piece.

When compared to building a website and paying for design, programming and expensive constant search engine optimization and content writing as well as social marketing that’s necessary to get a high ranking to keep you on the first page if you can get there which is unlikely if you have a new url. First page can never be guaranteed no matter how much money you spend on pay per click unless you ready to get in a bidding war with your competition. The truth is very few people ever click on paid ads.