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Raw material costs continue to rise due to supply chain issues and the COVID-19 pandemic. Demand is high, and supply is still catching up. The material that’s critical to transactional print and mail that’s most in flux is paper. Paper prices increased 6-15% in 2021, so what does the future hold for paper market [...]
Print and mail are still critical activities for any business that develops a significant amount of customer communication. However, it’s likely not one of your core competencies. That’s why many choose to outsource. If that’s your current situation, you’ll want to follow these steps to find the best print and mail outsourcing vendor. New [...]
The pandemic, supply chain issues, and other factors are impacting many raw materials, including the paper market. These added costs are impacting a variety of industries that need them. That also translates to likely higher prices for print and mail operations. With lots of other numbers changing on your budget, how will you minimize [...]
The phrase “easy to do business with” is common in lots of industries. Every company certainly wants to have this designation. Successful businesses are customer-centric. They think about the pain points customers feel in current processes and want to ease those. They likely do that with the product or service. However, there’s more to [...]
Direct mail is a long-standing category in the printing world. It’s how businesses communicate and market to customers. It’s typically promotional, and therefore, it doesn’t matter if it ends up in the wrong mailbox. Transactional printing is direct mail, but it’s something that businesses must treat very differently.What Is Transactional Printing Direct Mail?Transactional printing direct [...]
Should you outsource transactional mail? There are many reasons why this is a good business move. You can improve quality, reduce costs, and more. While we live in a very digital world, print and mail still matter in many scenarios. Transactional mail is a category that still has considerable volume and usefulness as a [...]
Companies have long looked at outsourcing as a cost reducer. It’s a leading reason why businesses choose to move some work to partners. Statement printing outsourcing is an area that more industries should consider. If you mail statements to customers and do it in-house, the costs are likely rising with no apparent delivery of [...]
Businesses still have some hard choices to make regarding cutting costs and improving efficiencies. A disruptive 2020 still has many companies struggling to survive, reexamining operations that no longer make fiscal sense. One such area is outsourcing printing for billing and mission-critical customer communications. Shifting to an outsourcing model provides a host of benefits. [...]
Outsourced utility billing services is a smart move for the industry. Spending time and resources on statement printing and invoicing isn’t your core competency. Billing is certainly a critical function, but that doesn’t mean you need to perform it in-house. With outsourcing, you gain substantial benefits that will positively impact your bottom line and [...]
Outsourcing print and mail communications, when executed strategically, can reap massive benefits for your business. Many organizations have found that the key to realizing these benefits is to take an honest look at their operations and evaluate it against the core competencies of their business. Maximizing what you do best and outsourcing the rest, [...]
