Comments on: MarketSplash Gets Reaction from Indigo Owners

By: anonymous former marketsplash employee

anonymous former marketsplash employee — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:34:09 +0000

Funny write up. I’m sure that’s how most of HP enterprise printer customers felt. Well…clearly enough of them did! Chalk this one up as a victory for the little guy. I’m probably under some NDA since it hasn’t been very long since I left MarketSplash….but you guys caused quite a toss up over there. It’s a shell of what it was a couple years ago. I wonder if the little guy who sold out to HP is regretting it now…

By: Changes to MarketSplash | Prepress Pilgrim

Changes to MarketSplash | Prepress Pilgrim — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:21:02 +0000

[...] you will excuse me, I gotta go update all my previous flamin’ blog posts about Marketsplash, here and here. It’s the least I can do since they scheduled the telecom on Victoria Day (a holiday [...]

By: Curtis Johnson

Curtis Johnson — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:39:51 +0000

I want my vendors supporting me, not competing with me. I would hope that HP concentrates on creating better marketing products for my clients instead of marketing to my clients.

Maybe, HP should have approached this from the other end by developing a HP print provider network first. Every client that has HP commercial equipment could have the opportunity to bid on leads developed by MarketSplash (the HubCast model). MarketSplash could be a transparent network of HP print providers that could drive more pages to HP printers (for HP profit), and a value added service to commercial printers that invest in HP hardware. This sounds more like a win-win arrangement compared the win-lose situation that is alienating commercial printers who bought HP equipment and now are competing with MarketSplash and its privileged arrangements with their selected print providers.

By: Joseph D Falcone

Joseph D Falcone — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:15:11 +0000

Res Ipsa Loquitor!

By: Toni Deal

Toni Deal — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:25:27 +0000

This was hilarious, I laughed for 10 minutes. I work for a company that tried something similar to this years ago, before web to print was actually popular, and we still feel the repercussions with our customers and their trust. I know that we are all looking for ways to support ourselves and our customers, but directly soliciting print from consumers is a slap in the face. Whether it goes to people that have your product or not, makes commercial printers into trade printers with very low margins. I wonder if HP is looking at making a partnership with Vistaprint, printers love them too.

By: Don’t Let the Splash Wipe You Out! | Better response for marketing campaigns!

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:28:23 +0000

[...] the internet, to cater to all of their needs, not just printing…” This was from an actual transcript of a conversation between print CEOs and a couple of HP executives I found on Prepress [...]