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Why Every Organization Needs an Augmented Reality Strategy

There is a fundamental disconnect between the wealth of digital data available to us and the physical world in which we apply it. While reality is three-dimensional, the rich data we now have to inform our decisions and actions remains trapped on two-dimensional pages and screens. This gulf between the real and digital worlds limits

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Is Your Workplace Prepared for Legal Marijuana?

Christina Barbuto has Crohn’s disease, a debilitating gastrointestinal disorder. Her physician prescribed medical marijuana to treat the symptoms, as allowed by Massachusetts state law. When she interviewed for a job that required a drug test, she informed her would-be supervisor of her condition and prescription. The supervisor assured her that this would not be a

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What Is Agile Direct Mail and Why Do I Need It?

By Summer Gould “Mailboxes in ivy,” Creative Commons license. | Credit: Flickr by Ryan McFarland Many organizations are familiar with agility strategy, but have you considered how you can create agile direct mail campaigns? Why should we even consider this for direct mail, because agile means we can quickly adapt to changing circumstances to stay ahead of the competition? Are you

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Bringing Physical Packaging Into the Digital World

By  Cory Francer, editor-in-chief of packagePRINTING. Rafi Albo of SEGMARKETING presents at the Digital Packaging Summit. On the second day of the Digital Packaging Summit, Rafi Albo, owner of SEGMARKETING, demonstrated how his company is bringing physical packaging into the digital world and the role that digital printing plays in that equation. Finding ways for packaging to provide

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Making Print Exciting

St. Joseph CMO Michael Chase highlights creative and unique print applications. At the Distinguished Leader Session, Michael Chase, chief marketing officer for St. Joseph Communications, provided highlights from the company’s “2018 Print In a Digital World” trend report. St. Joseph compiles these trend reports as a service. Chase’s presentation ran down more than two dozen

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Building Your Business in the Age of Google

Are you interrupting a lot of people to find the few who are in need of your products and services? Or are you working very hard to be found by the customers that are actively seeking out your services? By Jennifer Matt When you ask printers how they intend to grow their business; most still say

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Trump’s New Orders and the Effect on Group Markets

After months of failed efforts by Congressional Republicans to eliminate the Affordable Care Act, President Trump has stepped in with two sweeping changes that will likely reverberate throughout the health insurance system. The main order he issued immediately eliminates subsidies that are paid to health insurers that participate in government-run exchanges to reduce deductibles and

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Protecting Your Workers in Wildfire Areas

If you have workers in a wildfire zone, you need to have measures in place to protect them in the event of a catastrophe. Smoke from these wildfires is dangerous as it contains chemicals, gases and fine particles that can lodge deep in people’s lungs. This can make it difficult to breathe, aggravate asthma as

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