fill beds year round bed and breakfast
Hotel

Cost-Effective B&B Marketing That Will Fill Beds Year-Round

Cost-effective bed and breakfast (B&B) marketing isn’t about being cheap. It’s about understanding what expenses provide your business the most value in return, regardless of the actual price. A focus on cost-cutting can often distract you from what is truly important about your business. This is especially true in the highly-competitive hospitality industry. That said, …

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Print Materials for Restaurant Christmas Promotion Ideas
Bar and Restaurant

5 Festive Restaurant Christmas Promotion Ideas

Most businesses get a bump around the holidays, especially as we get closer and closer to Christmas. Restaurants have the opportunity to get in on this bump in the days leading up to Christmas, but they need to target their food and services just right. These restaurant Christmas promotion ideas are tried and tested ideas to get …

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Ideas to Bring Your Real Estate Postcards Up to Date
Real Estate

14 Ideas to Bring Your Real Estate Postcards Up to Date

Direct mail postcards are one of the most popular tools available to marketers in the real estate industry. Unfortunately, innovation in real estate postcards has largely stagnated, even in today’s app-driven age. And while postcard printing continue to be as effective as they’ve ever been, a lot of them tend to look alike and follow …

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Hotel

3 Compelling Reasons to Update Your Hotel Print Materials

Hotel print materials are essential to this industry’s marketing. Everything from notepads, brochures, to flyers has been a part of hotel marketing for decades and will likely be a part of it for decades to come. But like all businesses, your hotel rebrands and changes to catch up with the times. That’s one good reason …

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Tips for Square Business Card Design
Graphic Design

7 Overlooked Square Business Card Design Tips

Thanks to their compact size and elegant shape, square business cards are fast becoming a popular alternative to rectangular business cards. Since we introduced square business card printing, it has become one of our better selling options for creative professionals and sales teams from different industries. Unfortunately, square business card design tips specific to the …

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Bad Print Advertisements
Graphic Design

19 Alarmingly Bad Print Ads

Bad print ads are everywhere. From magazines and billboards, to EDDM postcards and posters, we’ve all seen print ads that cross the boundaries of good taste and design. As a printing company, we’ve seen things you wouldn’t believe. Don’t think that only inexperienced businesses make bad print ads either. Creating them can and will happen …

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Printing Help

Why Printing Uses CMYK

CMYK printing is the standard in the industry. The reason printing uses CMYK comes down to an explanation of the colors themselves. CMY will cover most lighter color ranges quite easily, compared to using RGB. However, CMY by itself can’t create very deep dark colors like “true black,” so black (designated “K” for “key color”) is added. …

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