Running a printing company isn’t about luck, it’s about precision (although being lucky doesn't hurt). It’s about knowing where you stand every single day. The best-run print company leaders know their numbers. They know their productivity numbers. They know their...
When the waiter walks by your table in the restaurant, you raise your hand slightly to indicate that it’s time for the check because it’s time to go. If you are considering raising your hand and selling your business, let’s review some of the things that you can work...
Being a member of a peer group is hard work. These groups are not for the thin skinned. For them to work, each member must be honest about their business and be prepared to give as much as they get. As Rocky Balboa once said, “The world ain’t all sunshine and...
There’s no shortage of day-to-day business impediments, in any business, but particularly in the printing business. Your day is consumed by people issues, clients, equipment and productivity challenges, and outside suppliers and business professionals. And that’s on a...
A hiring strategy means different things to different people. It certainly means different things post-pandemic. Finding experienced labor and the work-from-home movement have created challenges that we have not seen before. From the production floor to the customer...
In the quest for machine productivity and efficiency, what can get lost is how well you are doing at completing projects. After all, we can’t invoice the project until it is shipped or in the mail. We see company KPIs with all types of metrics on speeds and feeds and...