So as a print business you’ve decided to sell print online using a web to print system. This will allow you to introduce an eCommerce platform to your website, boost your online visibility and allow potential customers to find you and order print products online. It’s a big step, you’ll need to invest time and money
Let’s start right at the beginning, with the decision that you’ve recognised all the benefits, both for you and for your clients, and you’ve decided to implement a web to print solution. Great news – you’ve taken the first step on a journey towards increased brand awareness, a higher profile, more customers, more orders, higher
Search Engine Optimisation. SEO. The Holy Grail. How to get found on the internet. As we’ve said before, you can have the best web site in the world … but if no-one ever finds it … So what actually is it? We’ll start by asking you some questions: Have you ever tried to find your
For the technology to flourish and be a genuine “win-win”, it must work for the client and for the printer. It’s no use in the long run if one side of the equation benefits and the other side doesn’t, so let’s look at each in turn and see if we have the “win-win” that we’re
We’ve talked a lot about how the web to print solution should function for the user, and we’ve touched on some aspects of how the web site should be designed. What we’ve not covered until now is how to manage the content of the website, how to update products and prices, how to review orders,
We’ll now introduce three new terms which we hope will further shed light on the whole web to print world, namely B2Client, microsite, and Storefront. B2Client We’re already familiar with B2B and B2C, and perhaps to a lesser extent C2C (Consumer to Consumer, e.g. EBAY). When thinking about selling print to specific clients with their
Building on our article on eCommerce, let’s highlight the fundamentals of an effective web to print eCommerce platform. It will provide each client with a private branded area, based on a secure login, where they will gain access to previously agreed products and prices. Unless they have administrative access, they will only be able to
This is an interesting topic, largely because it’s assumed that everyone knows what eCommerce is, and that there isn’t much to say about it. Right? Wrong! Getting your print eCommerce working correctly is pivotal to effective customer segmentation and maximising order quantities and values. Let’s see how. What’s eCommerce? We’ll start with the simplest possible
Let’s start with a few home truths: it doesn’t matter how brilliant your web site is if no-one ever finds it it doesn’t matter how quickly they find it if they take one quick look and then move on it doesn’t matter how long they stay on your site if they don’t do anything positive
“We all do small print jobs in order to keep the client for the big jobs …” Does that ring true? In our experience it’s a fundamental reality of the print business – whether online or offline. There’s a lot more than initially meets the eye in that statement. From the printer’s perspective, there’s the