How to Use the Smartpress™ Marketing on Demand Platform

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The Smartpress™ Marketing on Demand (MOD) platform can help you streamline your business marketing needs in one simple place. A convenient print management solution, MOD makes it easy for you to design and print marketing collateral, distribute it to all of your locations and so much more. For businesses with a minimum annual spend of $50K and all the way up to $50 million, it’s an online printing platform that saves you time and helps you stay organized.

What MOD Does for You

With Marketing on Demand, you get a branded version of the Smartpress ordering platform for your company. As a web-to-print software, MOD manages everything so multiple teams or departments at your company don’t have to, even across branches and locations.

MOD allows you to:

  • Manage your enterprise-wide print and marketing assets.
  • Print, download and fulfill assets on demand.
  • Centralize all of your marketing assets – apparel, promotional items, print, direct mail, social media, etc.
  • Manage business essentials like HR paperwork, operational signage and support materials.
  • Provide assets for all locations and franchises, plus day-to-day necessities, in a one-stop shop.
  • Create brand consistency across franchises, locations and adhere to your brand standards across the board.
  • Customize your assets at the local level, provide variable data offers and personalize outreach on a local market basis.
  • Track who’s ordering what, who’s customizing and what products they’re ordering.
  • Create custom views of assets for different teams. Your MOD platform can look one way for Sales and Marketing, one way for HR, one way for management, etc.
  • Control oversight of products or budgets with order approval assignments for administrators.
  • Offer flexible payment options via credit card, centralized billing and/or sponsored promotions with prepaid user accounts.
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Brand Control With Marketing on Demand

A key feature of print management software like MOD is brand control and protection. With a branded MOD platform, you get:

  • A clean, streamlined experience that’s organized and customized for you.
  • An improved user experience that easily guides them to product categories.
  • Single sign-on functionality. Your company’s intranet page can link to your MOD platform so employees don’t have to log in to multiple sites – it’s a seamless path.

Brand control benefits:

  • Consistency. Everything is in one place (and in the most up-to-date versions).
  • Franchisees can customize assets per their location and still retain brand standards.
  • You can control your corporate brand colors. Since Smartpress prints everything in-house, we ensure those colors are repeatable and consistent across locations.
  • A simple design process. We can even set up a review and approval structure before your assets go into production.
  • The ability to promote and offer new products and marketing ideas to franchisees.

The Smartpress Experience

One other big advantage of using MOD? You get the world-class service of a customer-focused online printer like Smartpress. We provide you with a workflow management system from start to finish and everything in between.

Since we’re the printer, all of your assets are created in-house (we never outsource it!), and if you have questions, we can help you get answers since all of your designs are with us.

With Smartpress, you also get:

  • More flexibility. MOD was developed internally, so we can change, modify and customize your assets any which way you want.
  • A bigger tool box to play with. Other companies provide very standard print management software. They “buy off the shelf” and nothing really changes.
  • Diverse reporting options to see what’s working and what your opportunities are.
  • Freedom. We can give you as much free rein or as much locked-down content as your employees need. Whatever your needs, we can create something that works for you.

Tips & Tricks

Follow these tips and tricks to get the most out of Smartpress Marketing on Demand platform:

  • Simply put, the most value comes out of more people in your company using it.
  • Having your corporate offices and employees use it can be more helpful than having each franchise location do their own thing.
  • Utilize our Layout Services team to design custom assets. (Seriously, they’re really good.)
  • Be sure to stay on top of your design requests – review and approve them in a timely manner.
  • Use MOD to design and create your retail fixtures.

Get a first-hand account of the Storefronts experience: Marketing on Demand: Build a Full-Service Print Management Solution

If you have questions about this or any of our other online printing services, please contact customer service and chat with our team of print experts.