You’ve got a strategic plan right? Most printing company owners I meet all have one. To be kind, some are more real than others. It’s something they worked on, they believe in, and could probably recite it back to you if you woke them up at 2 AM. That’s not the issue....
Stop hiring from a position of desperation. I know, it’s much easier said than done, but there’s no time like the present to change the outcome. It’s not fun having to go through a pile of resumes from people you’ve never met, and trying to guess during a brief...
No one said this was going to be easy is a huge understatement. I was talking to a client the other day, and we were discussing the different areas of change within our industry that have taken place over the years. We went back to the film and stripping days, then...
Leading a print business shouldn’t be a solo sport. Going it alone can curtail your ability to grow and to take on the challenges of the day. So, if not solo, then what? The top leaders I’ve seen have built two strong teams around them. There’s an internal team that...
Most Printing company MIS systems are chalk full of data and production information. A few challenges though, are how to extract them in a meaningful way, and then who’s going to own those numbers and defend them – good or bad? If nobody owns the numbers, then nobody...
Here are some of the issues I hear as we enter the back nine, or last six months of the year. Sales are up as profits are down. Things are a bit chaotic, seems like we’ve outgrown our processes. Our staff is comfortable, and borderline complacent. And our initiatives...