I can’t help but hear an audible “whoosh” when another month blows by me. I believe that time accelerates as you get older. It’s a cruel fact of life. In sales, a new month also means that someone has hit the reset button. Whatever kind of month you had, it is now over and yo… ...
Offset & Beyond, PIA/GATF’s successor to the Web Offset Technical Conference, opened Sunday in Toronto, and with a decidedly Canadian flair. Brian Mulroney, Canada’s former Prime Minister, will keynote the opening session this morning. Luc Desjardins, CEO of Transcontinental, will ad… ...
“At the time of this writing, I am preparing for a double move: Business and personal. After 24 years of working out of my home or apartment, I am moving Print Tec to an actual office with real people working around me and everything. It just became too much to separate the two worlds and ...
Big box retailers–Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Circuit City, Target, etc.–now have 65% of the market for printed music CDs, and downloads. Record stores, like bookstores, are a threatened species. Downloads and iPod enthusiam notwithstanding, CDs still account for 85% of music sales. But CD sale… ...
Blog. Who came up with that name? Early Internet users coined the term ‘SPAM’ after a Monty Python riff. But, where did ‘Blog’ come from? Anywho, welcome to my Sales Blog. Please wipe your feet, grab a Coke and have a cookie. As a sales trainer and, more importantly, columni… ...
Travelers Insurance has created a commercial printer policy updated to cover today’s reality of printer liabilities for errors and omissions. It’s aimed at printers with $15 million or more in annual revenues. It used to be true, says Bill Cunningham, CEO of Travelers Commercial Account… ...
Blustery winds and upside-down weather seem to be tracking me for weeks: snow on opening day for the Cubs in Chicago; Ft. Lauderdale airport shuttered as I departed an HP conference; a Northeaster buffeting my days at the On Demand Show in Boston last week—then back to Chicago for its annual d… ...
The move online by small businesses has slowed, says the National Small Business Assn. www.nsba.net The group tells the Wall St. Journal that 40% of 500 firms surveyed don’t have a Website; and two-thirds don’t provide for e-commerce. How come? Cause the cost and effort of being … ...
What works best in RSS marketing? How are RSS subscribers different than e-mail subscribers? RSS publishing best practices if you want to sell? These and other practical questions are all revealed in the 2nd part of the RSS interview with Bryan Eisenberg . Without doubt, this is one of the best and most practical ...