Mimeo Lounge

Passion for Print

Posted on June 21, 2010 at 8:36am, written by Jeff Grill, VP Marketing

Great column by Seth Godin today on passion in B to B marketing.  It’s something that is so important to Mimeo.com, yet something that we often fail to express in favor of the typical benefits common to business marketing such as productivity gains, cost savings, quality and other commodity type attributes.

Yet, when you ask a customer that relies on MImeo day in and day out about the service,...read more

Tags: b to b marketing, emotion in b to b marketing, passion in marketing, seth godin

             

Digital Printing Industry is Bigger than Digital Media Industry

Posted on June 16, 2010 at 8:40am, written by Jeff Grill, VP Marketing

Yesterday I attended a presentation from Forrester by Shar VanBoskirk at the Conductor Searchlight Launch (search engine management and optimization platform) that reviewed growth trends in digital media; e.g; advertising placed through Google etc.  The size of this business is estimated to be $17 billion in 2010, growing to $32 billion in 2014.  Now compare this to the digital printing industry...read more

Tags: digital print vs. digital media, mimeo.com, mimeo.com open platfrom

             

Mimeo Unveils New Facebook App

Posted on June 15, 2010 at 11:12am, written by Jeff Grill, VP Marketing

Mimeo isn’t just all business, on Monday June 14th, we officially launched our Facebook consumer application.  With “fotobooks for Facebook” visitors can turn their Facebook photo libraries into a custom photo book with a few clicks of the mouse. In addition to opening the MImeo platform to consumers, it demonstrates the versatility of the Mimeo platform and how print can be used by entrepreneurs...read more

Tags: facebook fotobooks, fotobooks, photo books facebook

             

Documents 3.0: Innovation in Technology, Documents and Digital Print Technology

Posted on June 9, 2010 at 3:51pm, written by Jeff Grill, VP Marketing

Every day we see new technologies and innovative thinking in the way printed materials are managed, produced and distributed in the enterprise. The very nature of documents as static containers of words stood still for 6,000 years, only to be disrupted in the past 5 years by digital print technologies, variable data, e-commerce, cloud print, e-print, virtual print and a raft of innovations that...read more

Tags: cloud printing, digital printing, document 3.0, document management, knowledge management, mimeo.com

             

Mimeo Survey - Help Us Improve Our Next Newsletter

Posted on October 12, 2009 at 6:15pm, written by Jeff Grill, VP Marketing

Help us improve the Mimeo Insider Newsletter and the Mimeo Service. Please take a moment to fill out this brief survey.

Tags: survey

             

Same Day Printing and Delivery for Our Neighbors in New York/New Jersey

Posted on October 12, 2009 at 6:00pm, written by Jeff Grill, VP Marketing

Sending a print order to an address in the New York/New Jersey area? Now, if you order bound documents by 10 a.m., materials can be on your recipient’s desk by 5:30 p.m., the same day.

Same day delivery is a perfect way to keep pace with the speed of New York business. It’s ideal for delivering up to the minute investor presentations to Wall Street, marketing collateral to the Javitz...read more

Tags: new jersey, new york, same day shipping, shipping

             

New! Free Shipping on Qualified Orders Over $100

Posted on October 12, 2009 at 5:45pm, written by Jeff Grill, VP Marketing

We are always looking for ways to improve customer value, including the cost of shipping. With this in mind, we are now able to offer free shipping on all qualified orders over $100. This in combination with premium materials, industry leading quality (99.7% flawless) and customer service (top 5% of all U.S. companies), makes choosing Mimeo for your next print project an even easier...read more

Tags: free shipping, shipping

             

Tip of the Month - Keep Your Tabs from Bending

Posted on October 12, 2009 at 5:30pm, written by Douglas Jung, Creative Director

Tabs are an ideal way to organize a document with the end user experience in mind. The problem with tabs is that they look great when printed, but since the tab extends out past the edge of the paper, the tabs themselves can tear and bend. Documents that looked great when printed can quickly look worn.

A simple solution is to specify an over-sized cover and back that extend out past the...read more

Tags: tip of the month, tips

             

Customization Comes to the Mimeo Document Builder - New Opportunity for Team Collaboration

Posted on October 12, 2009 at 5:15pm, written by Jeff Grill, VP Marketing

Customization is a new collaboration tool that is now available to all Mimeo customers. It is designed to give the account administrator more flexibility in how they share and control documents.

Now a document owner can predefine areas of each document that can be changed by others. Options include uploaded graphics (such as a logo), text or pictures. This approach is perfect for anyone that...read more

Tags: customization, document builder

             

The Mimeo Makeover - Our Interface and Your Documents Never Looked Better

Posted on October 12, 2009 at 5:00pm, written by Douglas Jung, Creative Director

You may have noticed some changes throughout the Mimeo application. Some of the changes are subtle, and involve improved aesthetics, while others are much more pronounced.

The biggest change is our new document proofing tool. Our “what you see is what you get” (WYSIWYG) document viewer now offers crystal clear resolution and provides an excellent representation of how your finished work...read more

Tags: interface, mimeo