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Are you putting yourself in the Spam Folder?

A simple guide to how to avoid losing existing customers by not being a marketing nuisance. Once upon a time in the distant past of the 1990’s, businesses would be careful about their marketing spending....

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Is your marketing failing in the first 5 seconds?

Improve its effectiveness with the 5+10+15 Seconds Rule Let me ask you some questions. How often do you skip an ad when you watch a YouTube video the second the skip advertising button shows. How...

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Design Basics: 12 helpful tips for novice designers

We offer a full design service here at Copy Express, your’s truly being one of the designers, but in the true kiwi tradition of ‘giving a go’ a lot of people like to try their...

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Marketing Basics – What is a Loss Leader

This article was prompted by an item in Stuffs Prosper section ‘There’s often a simple, creative solution to your sales problem.’ In this they cite an example of a coffee shop near a popular surf...

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Marketing Basics – The value of Search Engine Optimisation of your website

If you have a website, sooner or later you’ll get an email (or worse a call from a call centre) trying to sell you on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). They will claim that you will...

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There’s no such colour as Magenta

How can we be saying that magenta doesn’t exist? We have talked about CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key) in the past as one of the primary printing colours. Yet we now say that it...

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Marketing Basics – Getting Noticed

You’ve got to stand out of the crowd to survive in business. No matter what business you are in there is always others doing the same sort of work, be it local, national, and even...

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How to create a PDF

Everyone knows what a PDF is, every brochure you find online, every manual you don’t find in the box, books you read on your phone or tablet, PDF’s are everywhere. A lot of computer programs...

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Marketing Basics – 10 Questions you should be asking of your marketing

Marketing isn’t easy for a business to manage. Unless you have people who have been trained in the profession of marketing, how do you know the marketing you are planning to do is going to...

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Rob’s Revised Quick & Dirty Rules for Creating Marketing

We talk a lot about marketing here on this blog. We also talk a lot about design on this blog too. And things change over time. What worked even five years ago may not work...

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Being prepared for the unexpected in your marketing

As the recent COVID-19 outbreak has shown, the simple fact is that no matter what you do, you operate at the mercy of forces outside of your control as a business. Changes in how you...

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Automation and printing, making custom documents the easy way

One of the great advantages of the digital print technology we use, is that every page we print is generated on the fly by the printer so it can be unique. What’s so amazing about...

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Social Media Tips for the Time Poor

We live in an age where social media can sweep people to the presidency and destroy businesses by a mistaken post going viral. To stay on people's ‘radar’ you have to pop up in their...

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Using Holidays and Events as a marketing tool

Holidays are one of the reliable areas you can tie marking too. Everyone is relaxing and generally more willing to spend more than normal. Many of them have become markers of various activities that people...

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PDFs – An almost perfect solution for universal documents

PDF (Portable Document Format) is one aspect of computer technology that you deal with every day even if you don’t touch a computer. More than just the forms you download from the various government or...

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