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Print marketing is a valuable way to advertise your business. Whether you're marketing with banners, business cards, promotional products, or catalogs - we can help. Of course, it's important to remember that there are good ways to market and other unproductive ways. Here are 10 lessons we've learned about marketing in our 68 years of experience. Choose Quality Your customers and clients may not know everything about your business, but they DO know when you're skimping on the quality of your marketing. Choosing quality paper, products, and materials is a must. Create an Emotional Connection It's common knowledge that people buy for emotional reasons, so make your marketing emotional. Whether you include pets and kids on your promotional items, influence emotions with colors, or use highly effective text, you can create an emotional connection with your materials. Measure Your Marketing Find ways to measure your marketing. If you aren't measuring t...

Spring is here, summer is coming quickly, and before you know it - summertime events will be flooding your corporate calendar. From fairs, parades, and vendor shows, you'll likely be advertising for your business a lot this summer, and one of the most important marketing tools you can have in your back pocket is an amazing promotional product. You may only have a few minutes, or even seconds, to grab the attention of a potential customer, but your promotional product can go home with them and keep advertising to them throughout the summer. Whether your business is lake related or not, here are a few key promo products you can utilize to advertise to people who LOVE the lake life! Classic Neon Sunglasses A great handout for college campuses, beach promotions, festivals and more, our UV400 protection neon sunglasses come in an assortment of four vibrant colors. One size fits most adults. Customize these plastic promo shades with an imprint of your event name or custom logo ...

While we primarily concentrate on printing materials at the Lake of the Ozarks , promotional products, and green printing, we have another service that we'd like to focus on - customized apparel. Whether you're a small business or a large facility, it can be important for your team to have a uniform look and style. We understand this better than anyone, so we want to show you a few ways your apparel can be customized. Embroidery This option is ideal when you want to create a professional look. You can embroidery virtually any color and logo, with only a few exceptions. Some complicated logos may not be able to be replicated exactly with thread, but there are generally ways to work around this, and your logo can be manipulated in such a way that it still looks appropriate. You can embroider hats, shirts, jackets, coats, visors, headbands, purses & bags, towels, blankets, and more. The options are practically limitless. Do you want to learn more about embroidery at the La...

In our industry, proofreading and correcting typos are all extremely important. We rely on our customers to inspect and approve the products that they are ordering to make sure that everything looks correct, but it can still be easy for something to go unnoticed by a customer, and a whole line of print pieces have a spelling error. Because we hate to see this happen to our clients, we're celebrating Proofreading Day (March 8th) and teaching a few easy tips to keep your print pieces at the Lake of the Ozarks  error free and ready to be distributed. Concentrate It can take a lot of focus to proofread. In fact, if you allow distractions while you are approving your print piece, you are taking the risk of approving a typo. Put the cell phone away, close your email, ask others not to bother you for a bit, and focus on what you're doing. Proofread Differently When you look at something on a screen versus on paper, you will read it differently, and maybe even catch more mis...

The dictionary defines a brand as this: a kind or variety of something distinguished by some distinctive characteristic. Do you have anything distinctive about your print marketing and branding to help it stand out and get attention? If you don't, the team at Lake Printing would like to invite you to visit with us. From print marketing to promotional products at the Lake of the Ozarks , our team is here for you and your business to help you start making improvements in your branding. Here are a few ways you can improve your branding and marketing through print and promotional products. Direct Mail EDDM = Every Door Direct Mailing. This is a great way to reach out to your clients and inform them of what you do. At Lake Printing, we can help you design a postcard, compile a list of areas to reach out to, and then help you mail it to everyone on the list. Instead of delivering just to lists of individual people - EDDM can help you deliver to whole neighborhoods and areas to ge...

The colors you use speak a language all their own. Whether you're trying to communicate excitement, tranquility, or security - every color can say something different. In print media, it's especially important to say not only the right thing through the words you use and the photos you choose - but also through the colors that are being implemented on your piece. You can trust the team at Lake Printing to help you choose the right colors for your print piece at the Lake of the Ozarks with our team of highly trained graphic designers at the Lake of the Ozarks . Here are a few easy descriptions of colors to help give you and idea of the message you'll be conveying. Cool Colors Cool colors inspire a calming effect on the viewer. Of course, if they are used alone they can have a cold or impersonal feel, so it's important to pair them up with the correct color palette to avoid that. Blue On the positive side, blue and give a sense of tranquility, love, loy...

For many couples, one of the most debated details can be the wedding favors that you will gift at your wedding. Some couples choose something sentimental and others choose something fun. Some couples choose to go a "do it yourself" route, but that can be very time consuming as well as a little pricey. At Lake Printing, we specialize in creating custom promotional products, and while they are normally considered for your business - they can also be used as favors for your wedding! Here are a few promotional products we have available that would be perfect for your upcoming wedding at the Lake of the Ozarks . Stadium Cups If you and your soon-to-be spouse are football fans (and even if you're not!) these stadium cups could make a fun addition to your wedding. Not only do they come in many fun colors, but you can have your names, wedding date, and even hashtag printed onto the cup. BONUS: if you gift these cups, then you don't have to provide disposable cups for ...