If you’ve ever read my blog before, you know that I’m a runner. In fact, I wrote another piece here about training for a half marathon and how it relates to sales. It will probably come as no surprise to you that injuries can happen when you regularly participate in...
After an utterly fantastic Project Peacock event providing Printspiration to a room filled with print customers and PSP’s eager to learn about, and get their hands on the amazing print and paper samples shared by the Peacock Partners, I had some time to actually hang...
I would not call myself a baseball junkie by any stretch. As a kid I played softball from second grade until I graduated high school, and we went and saw a Tiger game at least once a year. (Shout out to all my readers from the D!) Now that one of my daughters is...
My client, King, sold new and used videos, games and fan collectibles. He printed a newsletter every month. When I started working with him, King’s newsletter was mostly canned, with syndicated reviews. He wanted to produce something original, distributed in-store to...
I AM MAD AS HELL AND I CANNOT TAKE IT ANYMORE.. and I am not alone! At a recent event I attended, a panel represented by 5 paper mills and 1 merchant heard from a vocal crowd of printers who were less than thrilled with the current state of the paper supply chain. I...
Well, friends, I did it again. Back in 2015, shortly after I moved to Connecticut from Chicago, I trained for and ran my first half marathon at the age of 45. Then the next year I ran another. Earlier this year, I decided that the months leading up to those races were...
Friends, I’m not gonna lie to you. I am stressed. Like, in a constant pit of my stomach, breaking out in a cold sweat stressed. And the reasons that I am stressed are many. Some of them are personal, some of them are family related, and some of them are because of my...
Morten Reitoft explains the motivations behind the making of a recent film on INKISH.TV. Being an independent media and still asking for sponsorships is an act of balance and the “Behind the Scenes” chronicles are meant to explain why, but also to give you the...
In 2019, Millennials (23-38 years old) will take over the earth as the largest living adult generation projected to number 73 million, according to the Pew Research Center. Over 85% of Millennials correlate their purchasing decisions to RESPONSIBLE EFFORTS a company...
As I was doing my usual Tuesday morning social media audits ( translation: spending time on LinkedIn and Twitter looking for cool stuff and trying to find some inspiration to write this blog) I stumbled upon a Harvard Business Review Article that claimed that spending...
Deborah sat down with Shuchi Sarkar, Global Marketing Head, Graphic Solutions Business at HP, at Dscoop to record this Podcast from the Printerverse. ‘Change’ can be a scary word. It evokes the fear of the unknown or breakdown of the status quo, and particularly in a...
Happy Women’s History Month… and more relevant for our purposes here, Women’s Print HERstory Month! #PrintHERstoryMonth is a new initiative driven by Girls Who Print with the sole purpose of sharing stores and giving more visibility to all of the fierce, fabulous...
