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Is Direct Mail Making a Comeback?

Digital marketing is one of the easiest ways to get your brand out there, but how effective is it when it’s competing against an entire sea of digital campaigns just like it? While digital marketing ...

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Is Print Marketing Worth the Price of Postage?

With digital marketing being found everywhere we look, print marketing appears to be put on the back burner. However, moving to digital marketing is a trend that only enhances your print marketing ...

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What Makes Signature Graphics Different

Signature Graphics isn’t your average print marketing company. While we offer your usual print marketing and direct mail services, we also offer comprehensive options to ensure you have everything ...

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Using the Power of AI in Print Advertising

AI is a rising trend, and all the smartest brands are utilizing it to save time, create better content and publish better-performing advertising. Using the power of AI in print advertising is no ...

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How Grocery Circulars Enhance Sales

Imagine this scenario based on a true story: Robert is a grill master and recently purchased a new pellet smoker. He’s ready to try it out and immediately thinks of the grocery circulars sent in the ...

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How Grocers Benefit from Print Advertising

One trend that has never stopped is print advertising for big (and small) grocers. Even as the world has evolved to contain digital marketing in almost every facet of our lives, print advertising is ...

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Print Purchasing Guide for Marketing Directors

If you’re a marketing director, you likely already have the know-how for digital marketing, print and more. However, if you want to hone your skills even further and get the most out of your ...

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How to Design Advertising Circulars

Advertising circulars are relatively subtle, but they make the marketing world go round. Touching multiple products and categories, the idea is that companies are better able to enhance brand ...

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How Color and Emotions Work for Marketing

Color might be the last thing on your mind while you’re creating print marketing materials, but it matters more than you know. Whether you already have brand guidelines in place or are in the process ...

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Typography Guidelines in Print Marketing

While your messaging is crucial, every aspect of your print marketing design matters, too—including your typography choices. While it may seem insignificant, the fonts, overall marketing layout and ...

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Budget-Friendly Print Marketing Techniques

With a tangible emotional appeal and impressive open rate, print advertising is an incredibly useful tool to increase brand awareness and help people remember your product or service. While print ...

How to Use White Space in Print Marketing

Something as simple as white space doesn’t sound like it makes a difference in print marketing, but it does. White space is a crucial component of your marketing efforts and can be the number one ...

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Layout Tips for Effective Print Marketing

Have you ever seen a print advertisement where something is just… off? The colors are fine, but the overall appearance seems cluttered. When the layout isn’t quite right, it can mess with an entire ...

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How to Use Color Schemes in Print Marketing

Color schemes may not seem like a crucial part of print marketing amidst all the other decisions you can make, but they hold more power than you realize. Other than the content, design and color ...

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How to Increase ROI with Print Marketing

The success of marketing advertising in commercial printing comes back to one thing: return on investment. Basically, the more successful your advertising is, the higher your return on investment is. ...

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Using Print Marketing to Maximize Local Impact

Did you know that print marketing is especially lucrative for local businesses? Since it appeals directly to local demographics and ZIP codes in the general vicinity of your business, it offers an ...

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Print Marketing vs. Digital Marketing

In an age that has gone digital, it’s easy to assume that print is indeed dead and digital is on the rise. But how have we arrived at this conclusion? The comparison between print marketing and ...

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Combining Traditional Print and Digital Marketing

You get done with a long day of work and check your mailbox. Inside are a few standard envelopes and a stack of eagerly-awaited coupons for your favorite local brands, printed in bright colors. You ...

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How to Prepare Design Files for Print Marketing

Signature Graphics can help with the printing, publishing and delivery of your marketing materials, but if you’re wondering how to prepare design files for print marketing, we’re here to guide you ...

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2025 Print Marketing Design Trends

As we start the new year of print marketing, one of the questions at the forefront of our minds is where 2025 print marketing design trends are heading. Every year, old design trends are left behind ...

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Sustainability in Print Marketing

When you think of print marketing, sustainability probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. In fact, you might think the opposite. However, you’d be surprised to know just how sustainable ...

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Will Print Marketing Be Effective in 2025?

Contrary to what you may have heard, print marketing is alive and well. Print marketing is one of the oldest, most effective methods of advertising that is still being used to this day. But with a ...

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How Much Will Stamps Cost in 2025?

Stamp prices keep rising year after year to keep up with inflation, so it’s only natural to be curious about where they stand in 2025. With stamps originally predicted to go up at the end of January, ...

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As the Pandemic Evolves, So Will Consumer Spending

As we write to you today, the pandemic is still with us, but we are beginning to get occasional glimpses of normal life peeking through. As the vaccines get rolled out to greater numbers, and we ...

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One Plus One Equals Three?

I know that title sounds like something from the new math, but it’s really a formula for marketing success. It’s not uncommon to have two different things that, when married together, add up to ...

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The Two Sides of Multi-Channel Marketing

Consumers consistently tell us they want more: more information, more selection, more special offers and more ways to access your goods and services. With the two sides of multi-channel marketing, ...

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It Played Out as We Expected

Earlier this summer, we shared in an email that we saw certain economic conditions coming our way that would impact consumer’s shopping behaviors. While the glow of unexpectedly robust Q2 revenue was ...

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The Pulse of the Consumer Survey

To better inform our clients, Signature Graphics commissioned a survey in late July to take the “Pulse” of today’s shopper. We wanted to get direct feedback from consumers to better understand what ...

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Connecting with Consumers. Is it Different Now?

Q2 is behind us and the numbers were surprising. Year over year, growth was off the charts for many retailers. For some, not in a good way, but for those essential businesses selling groceries, ...

Portland-based commercial printer, Signature Graphics, Inc., announced the acquisition of Target Media Northwest in Spokane, Washington

Signature Graphics Acquires Target Media Northwest

Portland, OR August 12, 2019 – Portland-based commercial printer, Signature Graphics, Inc., announced the acquisition of Target Media Northwest in Spokane, Washington. Target Media Northwest, a ...