Finally, a Free Font for Amy Winehouse Fans
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Dramatic, stunning and always stylish – Dalmais was created by designer Paulo R. Skomii to honor the late singer and her music.  It’s a little bit retro (think art deco), with bold and narrow strokes in perfect contrasts. This would...
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What Nordstrom Learned When they Cut Direct Mail from their Loyalty Program (Spoiler Alert: It Wasn’t Good)
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Oops.That’s the basic reaction from Nordstrom brass in their recent earnings call where they reported weaker-than-expected sales forecasts. “On Tuesday, Nordstrom cut its forecast for full-year sales and profit after reporting weaker-than-expected first-quarter results that were hurt, in part, by...
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What Facebook Doesn’t Want Us to Know about User Metrics
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The number is staggering – in just three months earlier this year, Facebook took down 2.2 billion fake accounts. “That number is only slightly less than the 2.38 billion monthly active users Facebook has around the world,” writes Kaya Yurieff...
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Advertisers Moving to Safer Harbors … in Print
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It’s a surge … a resurgence … even a renaissance if you will … of new print magazine titles. And it’s making the marketing industry sit up and take notice. "What magazines have is the pull of consumer engagement. I'm...
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2019 Shipping Rate Increases at a Glance
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It’s that time of year again when all the major shipping carriers announce their new rates. This year, according to Christopher Vaughn in Mailing Systems Technology, rates are going up across the board. “But in the case of USPS,” Vaughn...
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The New Normal for Paper
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Paper pricing in the printing industry has always been a bit of a roller coaster ride, with hefty increases due to supply shortages in 2018. But according to D. Eadward Tree in Publishing Executive, don’t hold your breath waiting for...
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What’s a Free Font Friday Sans Serifs? Simply Perfect
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We’ve been bringing you lots of brush scripts and artistic fonts in the last several installments of our Free Font Friday. This week, we present two solid, fairly simply but graphically sound sans serif fonts. The first up is Bebas...
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The Modern Magazine — A Rare Brand Booster
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Did vinyl disappear after the CD? No, it became rare, and thus more valuable and is now a prestige item among music aficionados. That same concept of rarity and exclusivity is now playing out in print marketing, according to this...
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Will the USPS Go Broke in Five Years?
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Just how bad are things at the USPS? According to the news out of Washington, the Postal Service just reported a massive $2.1 billion net loss for Q2 of this year. To put that into perspective, that’s half of the...
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Facebook Users Will Soon Be Able to Clear their Data History
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It’s one of the creepier aspects of using Facebook. You visit a website and view a product, and next time you’re on Facebook you get an ad for that product. Soon, however, you may be able to keep it from...
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