{"id":2227,"date":"2021-03-13T03:24:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T03:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imprintnext.com\/blog\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2022-01-09T19:21:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T19:21:57","slug":"benefits-of-integrating-business-card-designer-software-to-your-online-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imprintnext.com\/blog\/benefits-of-integrating-business-card-designer-software-to-your-online-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefits of Integrating Business Card Designer Software in Online Store"},"content":{"rendered":"

The traditional way of customized business without business card designer software is too frustrating for today\u2019s new entrepreneurs. At the same time, physical stores are becoming obsolete.<\/p>\n

There are many reasons why the traditional way is so frustrating to customers:<\/em><\/h2>\n
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  1. Time-consuming:<\/strong> most customers are business owners who have to keep aside some time from their busy schedule to go to a print shop<\/a> and order their business cards. This demands a lot more time from the customers, which is off-putting.<\/li>\n
  2. Discouraging:<\/strong> Ordering a custom business card is truly discouraging for busy entrepreneurs who prefer to shop online.<\/li>\n
  3. Expensive Process:<\/strong> Even a simple design such as the company logo and name on a business card cost a lot when it\u2019s done by experienced designers.<\/li>\n
  4. Cannot Make Changes:<\/strong> Hiring a designer to create your design is pretty stiff as there is no room for flexibility. Once the design is done, you have to pay the designer again if you need changes.<\/li>\n
  5. Repeat Work:<\/strong> For as many iterations of the design, the customer has to physically go to the store to give the updated design.<\/li>\n
  6. Frustrating Experience:<\/strong> If the design is not up to the print standard or not in the right format for printing business cards, the print shop will return the design for changes and it usually goes back and forth a few times before it is finalized.<\/li>\n
  7. Cannot Have Rush Orders:<\/strong> With a physical store placing an order, processing the order and delivery takes more time than online orders as most of the work is done manually.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Frustrated Print shops\/Decorators:<\/h2>\n
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    1. Few Customer Reach:<\/strong> Being a physical store, most business card printers rarely get orders and on top of that they get customers only from their limited reach of area.<\/li>\n
    2. Lost Sales:<\/strong> Most printers lose sales because customers are not willing to get it printed from a store because of the long and tedious process.<\/li>\n
    3. Sales are Seasonal:<\/strong> Business card printers are only able to make big sales when businesses are on a big event or are going on a trade show which happens only a couple of times a year.<\/li>\n
    4. Unnecessary Effort to Convince Customer:<\/strong> printers have to compete against other print shops so they have to hire additional professionals to educate the customers and take care of the other tasks in the process.<\/li>\n
    5. No Sales on Holidays:<\/strong> as physical stores stay closed on holidays, this is when they lose a lot of sales because most business owners opt to print their business cards on weekends and holidays.<\/li>\n
    6. Time-Consuming:<\/strong> Before actually processing the order the business card printer sends and receives the designs, artwork and other customer information back and forth before finalizing.<\/li>\n
    7. Lost Branding Opportunity:<\/strong> Rarely does a physical store make an impression on their customer and even if they did, they don\u2019t have the opportunity to do targeted marketing as it is for online stores. This is how the print shops lose their branding opportunity.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Swamped Art Dept:<\/h2>\n
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      1. Customer Dependency:<\/strong> Customers are unaware of the process for which the art department has to deal with their shortcomings and have to spend time incorrectly formatting the designs for printing.<\/li>\n
      2. Receive Frequent Unprintable Designs:<\/strong> The art department is flooded with faulty designs, incomplete artwork and unprintable low-resolution images.<\/li>\n
      3. Tedious Process:<\/strong> Multiple iterations of the design are done before finalization and at every step, the store is dependent on the customer for confirmation. This quickly turns into a long and tedious process.<\/li>\n
      4. Our lost Orders:<\/strong> The tedious process sometimes discourages entrepreneurs and they drop their order midway.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Lost (Sales + Time + Resources):<\/h2>\n

        Lost Sales:<\/h3>\n

        Print shops lose sales through multiple channels in the traditional way<\/em><\/p>\n

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        1. New business card printers lose sales because of the other established competitors in the area.<\/li>\n
        2. With a physical store, the business card printers only have a limited reach to the customers in the area.<\/li>\n
        3. Ordering from a physical store is often a long and tedious process that discourages entrepreneurs to shop from a store and instead of going for online stores.<\/li>\n
        4. Most customers are unaware of the printing process and its requirements which is why they send low-quality artworks which after being printed the customers are unsatisfied and ask for returns.<\/li>\n
        5. This makes customers lose trust in the brand, even if it\u2019s for the incomplete knowledge of the customers.<\/li>\n
        6. Physical stores have to stay closed during weekends and holidays when the demand is higher.<\/li>\n
        7. Because the prints are sent back and forth multiple times manually, this tedious process oftentimes makes customers drop the order midway.<\/li>\n
        8. Print shops get sales only from the customers who have the time to go through the complete process and lose sales to the new entrepreneurs who prefer to shop online.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Read also: Benefits of Integrating Office Stationary Customizer<\/a><\/p>\n

          Lost Time:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

          There are many ways physical print stores lose ties<\/em><\/p>\n

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          1. Print shops lose time in the long and tedious manual process of finalizing the designs.<\/li>\n
          2. Many times the shop is ideal because there are no continuous orders.<\/li>\n
          3. Manually taking orders often leads to miscommunication for which sometimes customers are dissatisfied and ask for returns which is a complete waste of time and resources.<\/li>\n
          4. The workflow in a physical print shop is manual, which takes up a lot of time for repetitive work.<\/li>\n
          5. Time is lost in taking and processing orders manually.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            Lost Resources:<\/h3>\n
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            1. Physical business card printing<\/a> stores operate a lot of work manually for which print shops have to hire additional professionals.<\/li>\n
            2. Many man-hours were lost in the process of finalizing the design and processing the orders manually.<\/li>\n
            3. Many print equipment and resources are lost because of returned or discarded orders.<\/li>\n
            4. Physical stores have to create additional space for customers because they can\u2019t take online orders.<\/li>\n
            5. You need special professionals to explain the print process to inexperienced customers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              Lost $:<\/h3>\n