This blog originally published in Printing Impressions How much are you investing in your people? I’m not talking about wages and benefits, but rather their training and development, their growth in what they do in your business? Let me ask the question in a...
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Five Tips to Fix Roller Coaster Sales
This blog originally published in Printing Impressions The financials looked OK at year end, but if you examined how you got there, it wasn’t pretty. It’s amazing that some companies enjoy monthly sales volumes that might not deviate more than five percent up...
Your Sales Team, Today and Tomorrow
This blog originally published in Printing Impressions. The effectiveness of the sales team remains an ongoing concern for most sales leaders and CEO’s in the Graphic Communications industry. How many of your reps made budget last year or increased their sales...
Bravo to Those Who Make it Happen, Get it Done
This blog originally published in Printing Impressions. Printing is a tough business. It’s custom manufacturing that companies try to streamline every day. There are variables in the materials used to produce the printed piece-from the client supplied files to...
Risk and Responsibility, Part 2
This blog originally published in Printing Impressions. As owners and members of the leadership team, you deal with the risk and responsibility for getting it right, making it right and keeping it right for the business, your employees and your customers. I’ve...
Your Saturday Morning Yellow Pad
This blog originally published in Printing Impressions. Working on the business gives you the opportunity to step back from the day-to-day minutia of urgent to-do’s and handling other people’s issues. While these day-to-day issues are important to keeping the...





