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In the Driver’s Seat: Increasing Print Business with Augmented Reality

It’s finally happened. Print and marketing firms are incorporating augmented reality (AR) into their marketing tool kits. Not just for fan engagement and brand building, but as a business problem-solving and revenue-driving solution. Far from AR competing with print, it’s driving it. Contributor Heidi Tolliver-Walker looks at several case studies that launched AR experiences from print.

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

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It’s finally happened. Print and marketing firms are incorporating augmented reality (AR) into their marketing tool kits. Not just for fan engagement and brand building, but as a business problem-solving and revenue-driving solution. Far from AR competing with print, it’s driving it.

Take the example of PaperJax, an AR agency in Green Bay, Wis. PaperJax was started earlier this year by Jon Bootz, a seasoned salesman for Brown County Graphics (BCG), along with his wife, Jane. Bootz describes PaperJax, not as a marketing or print agency, but as an AR agency, because all of its services are wrapped around the unique solutions that AR brings.


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About Heidi Tolliver-Walker

Heidi Tolliver-Walker is former print industry magazine editor and long-time industry analyst, content developer, author, and blogger. She has written for the industry’s top publications, research companies, and private companies for the past three decades — so long that she still has an AOL address, which she signed up for back when AOL was still cool. You can reach her at [email protected].

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