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...
This year has been challenging on many fronts, but particularly with material and supply side challenges. You need paper to print on, right? So when material becomes available for sold work, or in anticipation of future projects, printers purchase as much as they can....
When is good enough ever good enough? Not very often, and not for when you are emerging from a global pandemic. As an owner or a leader of a business, your entrepreneurial drive most likely got you to where you are today. When your business faces unprecedented...