Wednesday 11 August 2010

How is Online Printing Shaping Up after the Recession?

Online printing, also called Print on Demand (POD) has revolutionized the printing world. Online printing offers good services to authors who would like to self publish. There may be other services offered with it like proof reading, formatting and editing. The process involved is mainly digital but there are some that use the lithography process as well. The resultant print is of a high quality with clear photos of high resolution and true colors without any streaks. The online printing industry was also a victim of recession and has somewhat suffered substantial economic setback.

There are ways in which the online printing suppliers dealt with recession without of course compromising on quality. With people looking to cut down cost, you will need to think of innovative ways to lure consumers to you. In the times of economic slowdown, it is sensible to cut down on costs, except the marketing cost. Increasing the marketing cost in these financially slow times helps to retain and attract potential customers and the online printing is no exception to this. The suppliers thought of effective ways of spending the money and maximizing the return on their investments.

Since the printing suppliers were offering online services, it was very important for them to have a friendly and navigable website without any glitches. Most customers will be turned off if the website is not user-friendly. The study of consumer psychology was important in order to promote online printing efficiently. Presenting the service and making it more enticing to the customers were very important. It happens with online marketing many times where the potential consumer looks past the product. It was also necessary to customize the service provided by online printing suppliers as it lends a personal touch to the service and special treatment to the customer. Taking customer feedback on the standard of your product and friendliness of your website and working the low scoring areas was of utmost importance. These conveyed the message that the supplies care about customers needs and are looking to improve.

It was of utmost importance to make sure that the product itself was of good quality. Special discounts on printing packages or on bulk printing was a good strategy. Increasing the variety of services offered was a good option and introduction of services like the note pad printing was a good move. With these simple online printing strategies fighting the recession was not that thorny for the suppliers!

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