All that you have to sell is your time. That doesn’t only apply to those who sell, but to literally everyone in the business. What you know is based on a collection of your experiences, who you speak and meet with, what you read, and the tasks that you perform. Your...
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Lead The Next Generation
It’s fair to say that the owners, CEOs, and senior team members at many printing companies are getting closer to retirement. To ensure the continued sustainability of the business, it’s important to invest the time, energy, and resources necessary to train the next...
Your Customers Are Coming Back: What Will That Mean?
After a long pause, customers are beginning to go back to their offices and resume the business at hand. Not all, but many — and it certainly depends on what part of the country you’re in. It would be wishful thinking to imagine that the sales pipeline will fill to...
Managing Through the Curve
Managing through a crisis can be like driving in the fog — it’s very difficult to have clarity, depth perception, and to confirm that you're on the right path. It's times like this that teamwork, communication, and entrepreneurial adrenaline play a major role in...
Capitalize On Your Experience
Are your 15 years of experience 15 years of accumulated experiences, or one year of experience repeated 15 times? The answer would hopefully be accumulated experiences. How about your leadership team and sales team – how would they stack up when asked this...
Strategic Alliances: Options for Recovery and Growth
Whether you were in the top 20% or the bottom 20% of the rankings, you know that the balance of 2020 will be a year of transformation. Both ends of the spectrum will work hard to get back to some sense of normal. While a recovery will undoubtedly appear, not all...