Comments on: Transitional Services http://blog.postful.com/2009/01/07/transitional-services/ The OFFICIAL Postful.com Startup Blog: Distrust All Imitators! Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:33:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jsfwcz http://blog.postful.com/2009/01/07/transitional-services/#comment-2679 jsfwcz Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:38:36 +0000 http://blog.postful.com/?p=202#comment-2679 Physical. I really am a Print guy. Physical. I really am a Print guy.

]]> By: Justin http://blog.postful.com/2009/01/07/transitional-services/#comment-2678 Justin Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:40:14 +0000 http://blog.postful.com/?p=202#comment-2678 I agree that newsletters are a very interesting area. We've been looking at some possibilities and would love to pursue this further. I've been following printcasting as well. It's always fun when you start thinking that you should build something and find that someone is already working on it! In terms of your advice to digital printers, do you encourage them to send physical newsletters (highlighting their technology) or e-newsletters (just to keep in touch with customers)? I agree that newsletters are a very interesting area. We’ve been looking at some possibilities and would love to pursue this further.

I’ve been following printcasting as well. It’s always fun when you start thinking that you should build something and find that someone is already working on it!

In terms of your advice to digital printers, do you encourage them to send physical newsletters (highlighting their technology) or e-newsletters (just to keep in touch with customers)?

]]> By: jsfwcz http://blog.postful.com/2009/01/07/transitional-services/#comment-2677 jsfwcz Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:53:05 +0000 http://blog.postful.com/?p=202#comment-2677 oops..here's the right link ( I forgot the .com) http://googlemarteconomy.blogspot.com/ oops..here’s the right link ( I forgot the .com) http://googlemarteconomy.blogspot.com/

]]> By: jsfwcz http://blog.postful.com/2009/01/07/transitional-services/#comment-2676 jsfwcz Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:51:18 +0000 http://blog.postful.com/?p=202#comment-2676 Just another thought. Lots of people want to send out business newsletters. Actually my story is that every digital printer should send out a newsletter once every two weeks- mininum. problem of course is that they can't write a newsletter and the prepackaged stuff is really lame. I'm playing with the idea of doing white label blog content. Take a look at another blog I run at http://googlemarteconomy.blogspot to see sort of what I'm looking at. So..if I could point people to a button to push to print and mail, I might be more likely to turn an experiment into a business.. This is NOT something to plan on, as I might get distracted. But maybe just some food for thought. Just another thought.

Lots of people want to send out business newsletters. Actually my story is that every digital printer should send out a newsletter once every two weeks- mininum. problem of course is that they can’t write a newsletter and the prepackaged stuff is really lame.

I’m playing with the idea of doing white label blog content. Take a look at another blog I run at http://googlemarteconomy.blogspot to see sort of what I’m looking at.

So..if I could point people to a button to push to print and mail, I might be more likely to turn an experiment into a business.. This is NOT something to plan on, as I might get distracted.

But maybe just some food for thought.

]]> By: jsfwcz http://blog.postful.com/2009/01/07/transitional-services/#comment-2675 jsfwcz Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:38:15 +0000 http://blog.postful.com/?p=202#comment-2675 I played with feedjournal and you're spot on with the problem. It needs a place to sort the items. I'm pretty sure there is some kind of work around using the share feature in Reader, but I got sidetracked and didn't pursue. I think that one killer app might be the ease of publishing with feeder and an easy way to bring in ads.Either submitted by local advertisers or maybe connected to ad words. Check out printcasting.com when you get a chance. They are doing some very interesting things. You gotta believe that there are lots o' bloggers who would do paperback versions of selected blogs and then sell it to their readers. Plus the buzz is that businesses are supposed to blog. So lots of them will. I know that I'm playing with the idea if my site scales a bit more. I played with feedjournal and you’re spot on with the problem. It needs a place to sort the items. I’m pretty sure there is some kind of work around using the share feature in Reader, but I got sidetracked and didn’t pursue.

I think that one killer app might be the ease of publishing with feeder and an easy way to bring in ads.Either submitted by local advertisers or maybe connected to ad words. Check out printcasting.com when you get a chance. They are doing some very interesting things.

You gotta believe that there are lots o’ bloggers who would do paperback versions of selected blogs and then sell it to their readers. Plus the buzz is that businesses are supposed to blog. So lots of them will.

I know that I’m playing with the idea if my site scales a bit more.

]]> By: Justin http://blog.postful.com/2009/01/07/transitional-services/#comment-2674 Justin Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:54:02 +0000 http://blog.postful.com/?p=202#comment-2674 The big challenge I see with blog-to-print is that it tends to require a high degree of curation. It's difficult to automate the selection of articles, which comments, etc to include. The result of everything being printed is often a mess (at least in my experience), but the process of sorting is too large to make it feasible. We've had some success with people setting up custom feeds to print posts with certain tags, but the result still hasn't had huge applicability. The big challenge I see with blog-to-print is that it tends to require a high degree of curation. It’s difficult to automate the selection of articles, which comments, etc to include. The result of everything being printed is often a mess (at least in my experience), but the process of sorting is too large to make it feasible.

We’ve had some success with people setting up custom feeds to print posts with certain tags, but the result still hasn’t had huge applicability.

]]> By: jsfwcz http://blog.postful.com/2009/01/07/transitional-services/#comment-2673 jsfwcz Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:18:11 +0000 http://blog.postful.com/?p=202#comment-2673 I think where you point to the link between the documents on the web and their need to get printed out you are at the crux of the matter. The web is perfect for store, scan, search, link. Print is a 500 year old evolved tool for read. Consider all the self published books, the photo books. I'm thinking that with all the people working on blog to print sooner or later someone is going to get it just right. That could be one way to get the thing to tip. I think where you point to the link between the documents on the web and their need to get printed out you are at the crux of the matter.

The web is perfect for store, scan, search, link. Print is a 500 year old evolved tool for read. Consider all the self published books, the photo books. I’m thinking that with all the people working on blog to print sooner or later someone is going to get it just right.

That could be one way to get the thing to tip.

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