Greetings Citizens of the Printerverse! It’s almost time to close the books on 2019 which means it’s a perfect opportunity to look back at some of the subjects that drove discussions in the Printerverse this year, and what we can learn from them moving forward....
Remember the 1988 romantic comedy Bull Durham? Every season baseball groupie Annie Savoy adopts a single-A league player from the Durham Bulls as her project, to improve, using her own homegrown rules. Like Annie, every year I, too, take on a project (just the...
You are good at what we do. You’ve done it for a long time. You’re experts in it. And you can talk about it all day long. But guess what? Your customers just don’t care. Sure, they want you to be successful, mostly because they need your services and they want you...
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. It was downright Dickensian, 2019 was. BEST OF TIMES: A dream I had had when Project Peacock was born came true. I got to participate in all but the LA one. I truly believe that happened in part because I very...
The holiday decorations are out of the PMC blogging closet, it’s time for our annual sing-a-long! Need a fun holiday joy-spreading idea?? Grab some co-workers and make a video singing to this, or your own version, and share with your customers. If you do, PLEASE send...
It has been almost a month since Printing United opened its doors and ushered in a long-awaited trade show that brought much of the industry together under one gigantic convention center roof. Powered by SGIA and NAPCO Media, the show expanded beyond the traditional...
I’m sitting down with a solopreneur to help get marketing under control. “It’s been about five years since I really worked on marketing,” she says. “It’s a real beast.” Beastly — ha! — I like that. Yes, I can see how business owners would view their marketing program...
Guest post by Kenneth Theriot, TheRiot Agency We bet you know your overall sales targets and marketing themes. But does your marketing team know what the sales team is up to, and vice versa? Picture this: A global print and packaging company has a robust team of sales...
Humans. We are imperfect. We make mistakes. Some of us, though, make lots more than others. It’s a continuum, really. Unfortunately for me, I have been rating pretty high on the half-ass scale lately. I’m sure you are saying to yourself, “No, Kelly! It’ can’t be!” But...
The Printerverse – October 16, 2019 – Project Peacock Print Fair, the traveling ‘roadshow-and-tell’ event from Print Media Centr, is heading to Toronto, Canada. The final event of 2019 will bring tangible Printspiration to print-loving Canadian creatives, print...
Greetings Citizens of the Printerverse! It’s October and that means our industry holiday is on the horizon. International Print Day (IPD) is global celebration of print through social media for 24 hrs. The party starts at 6PM ET in the United States on October 22nd...
Years ago when I was on the small initial team developing a brand new software product we hired someone to focus on integrating a help and learning system into the product. He immediately started talking about how we needed to integrate a new concept called...
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