Article: Variable Data's 'It' Factor.(variable-data print marketing)(Viewpoint essay)

By Brad Lena

To sell variable data, you've got to have It. As someone who sold traditional print for many years before migrating to digital products, I think the main difference is that traditional print salespeople are at the very end of the decision-making process-who's going to print the job for us. Their world revolves around manufacturing: quality of print, delivery, cost-competitiveness, understanding of prepress/production issues, paper stock, etc.

A digital salesperson who gets It has to have a different business model. They really help to create the products they're selling-almost like a detective, uncovering the key issues of their client's ...

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