When It Comes to Pricing Print Projects – Stand Your Ground!
Printers, Service Providers… lend me your ears. For far too long you have focused on price over value. Your need to ‘win’ the job has come at a great expense, literally, not only to your business but to the industry. The race to the bottom is not one you should be winning, or participating in. […]
Injuries, Occam’s Razor, and Little Tweaks for Sales Success
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 any sport. And earlier this […]
Heavenly Printspiration Awaits Brands and Agencies as Project Peacock Print Fair Heads to the City of Angels on September 12
The Printerverse – August 28, 2019 – Print Media Centr’s show-and-tell event, Project Peacock Print Fair, will be held in Los Angeles, California on September 12, at Sony Pictures Plaza, as the industry’s dedicated innovation and education roadshow rounds off its US-based events for 2019 with a bang. Project Peacock Print Fair will be joining […]
War and Peace: What Hamilton and The Print Industry Have In Common
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 out in Chicago. One of the unexpected activities turned out […]
Use These 3 Marketing Stats to Create More Print Sales from Leads
2019 is half-way done and most everyone I have been speaking with is looking at sales numbers and measuring performance. Strategies and plans will be put into place to achieve or exceed this year’s goals. If you are getting ready to crank sales efforts by breaking out your prospecting list, here are 3 stats from […]
Five Life (and Sales) Lessons From My Third, Half-Marathon
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 great for me […]
Get Bullish On Print… or Get Out of The Way.
If you are a negative Nelson or Nancy, please skip this post. The time for hand-holding and putting on a smile to keep you optimistic about the industry is over. It’s your turn to get on board with the future of print, give back, elevate your game… or get out of the way. You have […]
Giving Stress A Beat Down For Better Sales Performance
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 work. Looming […]
Building a Better Print Business with Dawn Olson, Konica Minolta
At the InPrint USA show in Louisville, Kentucky, Deborah spoke to Dawn Olson, Director of Production Print/Industrial Print Client Business Development at Konica Minolta Business Solutions. Dawn delivered the first keynote presentation of the educational programme at InPrint USA in April, in which she talked about business development for clients in industrial and production print […]
Behind the Scenes with Morten Reitoft, Inkish.TV: Highcon
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 inspiration to seek further knowledge and information. Let’s get started. […]
Champion a Cause to Win Hearts, Loyalty, and New Print Customers
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 is making. (SquareSpace) 91% of Millennials would SWITCH BRANDS to one associated with a cause. (Cone […]
Is Collaboration Lacking in Your Workplace?
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 money on team building was a waste of time. Huh. […]
