Unlock the Perfect Paper for Your Print Projects with Essential Print Services’ Free Swatch Packs! When planning your print materials, the right paper choice is crucial. Essential Print Services offers free swatch packs, featuring a diverse collection of our most popular papers, cards, and special finishes, allowing you to make informed decisions. Selecting the wrong…
With the new year comes new vigour and enthusiasm for marketing our businesses. With so many choices available, what to do next or how to get started can feel overwhelming. Here are ten ideas to help you take the next steps: 1. New Year Ideas! Colleague Cards. Here at Essential Print Services, we like print…
1st April: on this day in 2011, Essential Print Services was born; which means we’re 10 years old! Woohoo. Since Yvonne started the business, we’ve expanded across Pride Park, helped thousands of companies, delivered huge amounts of precious print, travelled from Derby to Downing Street, represented small businesses on television & radio, won many accolades – we’ve achieved so…
How are you…really? I’ve spoken with more people over the past few weeks than ever before and some are still unwilling to reveal how they’re feeling and how the business is doing. Me: How are you? Them: Fine thanks or <insert their standard response>. Me: How’s business? Them: Yeah, busy or <insert their standard response>.…
First and foremost, we hope that you, your team and loved ones are safe and well. It’s also important to know that we are open for business. Our bright and colourful office on Pride Park may be closed for the time being, but we’re working remotely and we can still produce plenty of items, such…
Essential Print Services’ business owner, Yvonne Gorman, takes to the piano to tickle the ivories! Yvonne is on the other end of the phone if you need anything creating for print or for the interweb. We’re helping clients with printed survey cards, PowerPoint templates, letterheads, urgent business cards for a new recruit, postcards and labels.…
Within just a few weeks, business operations have changed dramatically. With new social distancing rules in full force, those businesses that are still able to operate, have introduced new measures to keep staff and customers safe. We’ve put together some useful products to help inform and protect your customers and staff during these challenging times. …
Here’s another report from Essential Print Services’ remote HQ by our very own Yvonne Gorman. Are those real glasses Yvonne? I think she has been rummaging about in the fancy dress box again! We’re open for business; we can still print many printed items including roller banners, which make create video call backdrops, baby flags…
We’re still open for business. Price lists are now available for our magic, peelable posters, which are fantastic for backdrops during video calls. You can stick them to your wall, peel them off and they leave no residue. You can use them time and time again. They are available in different shapes and sizes. h.…
We’re still open for business. We can help you with letterbox-friendly mailers, flyers and brochures. Check out our peelable poster in this video; you can stick them to your wall, peel them off and they leave no residue. Magic! You can use them time and time again. They are available in different shapes and…
Today is the Essential Print Services 9th birthday and even though we’re working remotely, we can still celebrate. Why not join Yvonne in a sing-song? We play this song in the office whenever there’s a birthday so, today is no exception. Maracas at the ready!
Here at Essential Print Services, we have taken advice from the Government and we are now working remotely. We will continue to fulfil existing and new orders. Our production teams remain open and are following health guidance. We will deliver your order ‘contact-free’ directly to workplaces or homes. We can host virtual meetings to discuss…
With a lot of the country’s workforce working from home, now is the time to start distributing flyers in your neighbourhood. If your target audience is B2C (business to consumer), then hit the streets; get some exercise and start promoting your business. Receiving something through a letterbox will cut through the digital noise. If you’ve…
Now, more than ever, we will need to help each other. Here are a few ideas about how you can help your company, business buddies and your community during this time: ‘Help your neighbour’ cards: If you would like to make your neighbours aware that you can help them, we have printed a supply…
This is an essential update for our clients and friends. In these uncertain times, it is important that you know we are open for business, and have put in place as many measures as possible to ensure we stay that way, which includes: + Our team: The Print Angels are being reminded throughout the day and via…
We love it when clients share their stories about how they use our merchandise and goodies. We’d like to introduce you to a customer and business buddy of ours; Karen Hannon from Busy Lives. Busy Lives is a freelance service providing project management, administrative support and organisational help to people and business owners throughout the…
Caught on camera; the film crew from BBC East Midlands were on-site today to interview Yvonne about business rates and the effect it has on small businesses. “When was the last time you checked your business rates bill? Are your details correct on the Valuation Office website? If you have any concern about paying too much,…
Here’s a blast from the past; Yvonne Gorman was photographed recently with Maria Hanson MBE from me & dee charity holding one of our newsletters from Autumn 2012! How time flies. In the article headlined; ‘Every company has the ‘power’ to make a difference’ we explained how “when times are hard I believe it’s more…
As we fling ourselves into 2019, here are our top three print predictions for the year ahead (3-minute read): 1) “Oh Coral, I am but a fool…” OK, so we may have twisted Neil Sedaka’s lyric slightly but Pantone’s Colour of the Year was announced at the end of 2018 as being ‘Living Coral’. We…
“Fantastic to receive our new and improved PR materials. Your inspired ideas on our Trifold leaflet have gone down brilliantly and received nothing but praise. As a charity, we can’t afford to send out the wrong message in a format people don’t like. With the Print Angels on my side, this is something we never have…
We’re proud to be print sponsors of the very first Blok Out Festival 2018 being held at the gorgeous Locko Park in Derby this summer. We bought our tickets ages ago and we’re really excited about a festival being so close to home! Grab your tickets via www.blokout.co.uk Go on, blok out a weekend for fun, food and frolicking!…
With the imminent arrival of GDPR coming into force on 25th May 2018, we’ve been busy bees reviewing all our policies and procedures. Like it, loathe it or may you’ve not even heard about it, GDPR will soon be here, and if you’re in business, we highly recommend you start to look into your obligations…NOW. In…
We have now received our order from Essential Print Services and it all looks fantastic! The folded sheets will be a great tool in our marketing war chest and we are very excited to use them! Many thanks again to Katie and the team, and we will be back for more print works we…
We have received so much positive feedback about the graphics that you provided. Everyone commented how professional they look and how good the printing is. Thank you for your time and patience. Gemma, Telecoms Company, Derby Every time we receive a testimonial, it’s like a virtual hug. We remain the most reviewed Derby Printer…
Service is always slick. I can’t think how it could be improved upon. I always enjoy the bag of jellybeans so maybe an XL bag next time? Dan, Kitchen Refurbishment, Burton Every time we receive a testimonial, it’s like a virtual hug. We remain the most reviewed Derby Printer on Google with top scores.…