News About GSI, Your Integrated Direct Marketing Company

February, 2011, Kent, Washington – Graphic Solutions, Inc. (GSI) is excited to announce that their very successful integrated marketing campaign for Noetix Corporation of Redmond, Washington was accepted as a Case Study Success Story by Mindfire, the leading software manufacturer of integrated marketing software.

October, 2010, Kent, Washington – Graphic Solutions, Inc. (GSI) sends out Thanksgiving holiday cards with a twist! Previously, the integrated marketing company had chosen a charity and contributed in honor of its customers. GSI wanted to enable its customers to select the charities that would receive contributions. Since the personalized giving program began three years ago, GSI has donated more than $7,000 to local charities. Recent recipients have included The Moyer Foundation, Northwest Harvest and Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Puget Sound. “Our customers have told us how much they value being able to make a charitable contribution, rather than receiving a traditional gift,” says GSI President Lorne Hood. “They’ve been delighted with the personalized approach and being able to select a charity. And we are pleased to put our technology expertise to work for a good cause.” GSI plans to continue the personalized approach to giving during future holiday seasons.

November 14th, 2009, Seattle, Washington - The 2009 Gallery of Superb Printing banquet was held to present, together for the first time, both Local and International awards for graphic arts excellence in the printing industry. 
Local judging was held September 19th and award winners were submitted for judging at the 35th International Gallery competition held October 22nd in Minneapolis.

At the 35th International Gallery competition, Graphic Solutions received a Gold Award for excellence in printing in the category of Web Offset, Booklet, 24 pages or more. A Silver Award was also received in the category of Direct Mail Package, which incorporated a Cross Media campaign. The Cross Media campaign, utilizing Personal URLs, E-Mail, Variable Data Printing, Offset Printing, and Ink Jet Mailing Services, was designed for the client to entice cold leads to a Personalized URL page (PURL) where they were asked to participate in a survey that would assist the client’s marketing and sales teams in developing cold leads into hot leads.