The Magic of Workflow Management in Your Workflow

Workflow Management_Pat McGrew_Print Media Centr

Sometimes workflow gets a bad rap. After all, it takes time to create a strategy for linking all of the pieces together, and time is something that is often in short supply. However, if you do not take the time, things can get messy, inefficient, and expensive. You leave money on the floor, run at […]

Partner Pre-Nups Ensure Easy Break-Ups

At a recent #PrintChat I presented questions for the topic of “Moving Mayhem” (see chat questions, stats and replay here) and our discussion centered around print customers moving their work from vendor to vendor, and the process for a professional break-up. With the waft of love hanging rather thick in the air thanks to Valentines […]

Why Printers Should Attend A DAM Conference

I reached out to Henry Stewart to help me find a company that has helped PRINTERS successfully become Digital Asset Management service providers. When they put me in touch with Widen, it was quite a surprise to find out not only do they help Printers, they were a Printer! Widen saw a huge opportunity in the new DAM […]

Rights, Reuse, Revenue And The Recap from #DAMNY

by Thaddeus Kubis This blog is provided via Print Media Center and Deborah Corn. Deborah set me up with a press pass for the Henry Stewart Event DAM NY May 1-2, 2014 in NYC, and for that I am thankful – and hopefully you will be too. The Print Media Centr community was also able to follow […]

DAM Equals Dollars For Print

If you follow PMC or my posts with any regularity, you already know my strong belief that “Those who hold the assets, hold the Power!”  When it comes to adding revenue generating services, the easiest place to start is looking at what you have, and if you are a Printer one thing you have in […]

Industry Giants Show Support for Xplor’s 2012 Conference and Vendor Forum

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Hardware, Software, Mailing and Service Bureaus Assemble to Sponsor and Exhibit at Annual Event   Tampa Bay, FL—February 14, 2012—Xplor International, the worldwide electronic document systems association, today announced that many of the industry’s giants will be exhibiting at Xplor’s annual 2012 Conference and Vendor Forum, March 27-29, 2012. Sponsors and exhibitors include […]

Risking it all for Print

  by Sandy Hubbard When I was a kid, I favored television shows about spies. I loved “Mission Impossible” and “It Takes A Thief.” Central to many of the missions were documents that had to be placed or retrieved. In one memorable “It Takes Thief” episode, microfilm of the incriminating documents was concealed within a […]

What Digital Asset Management can mean to a Printer

We all talk about the myriad of ways a printer might add value to the services he provides his Client in these troubled times; Cross-channel, Multi-channel, email marketing and the likes. One service is very much closer to home than you might think. Many printers save files for Clients in one form or another. How […]

PMC's Vendor Spotlight: Ernie Crawford President, Crawford Technologies

I first learned about Crawford Technologies earlier this year at the Xplor International Conference & Vendor Forum in Tampa, FL.  Their software solutions for the Print Industry amazed me. Actually, the entire reality of the technology that goes into Print and especially within the Document/Transpromo segment sort of blew my mind. As a Print Media Buyer, I […]

2011: The Year of The Cloud

If your marketing strategy has not yet moved onto the cloud, you risk getting left behind. But what is the cloud? And how beneficial really is this skywards migration? Alex Aspinall investigates Cloud technology: a new dawn for marketers? Findings published recently by The Centre for Economics & Business Research reveal that the further adoption of […]

Infographic: Today’s Cloud Computing Landscape

Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosting services over the Internet. A cloud service has three distinct characteristics that differentiate it from traditional hosting. It is sold on demand, typically by the minute or by the hour, it is elastic – a user can have as much or as little […]

Cloudstock: The Woodstock for Cloud Developers – San Francisco, CA 12/6

Cloudstock is an entirely new event designed for one purpose: To bring the top cloud developers and the top cloud technologies  together under one roof, to learn from each other, collaborate, innovate, and drive the future of cloud computing.  This open, meetup style, free event will feature sessions, demo stations, socializing, and a hackathon, all […]