Those old saws, that digital native Millennials and wealthy Americans distrust marketing, are rusty and can be tossed out the window.
Combined, the Top 25 “Hot Markets for Print Demand 2018-19” account for nearly 95% of total print-related purchasing by key sectors.
Minuteman Press is honored to be the #1 rated printing and marketing franchise by Entrepreneur in 2018 for the 15th straight year.
Midland Paper announced that Stan Hooker, the company’s long-time chairman and CEO, has retired.
A rep claims he has no time to sell. Another says voicemail messages go unreturned. To a manager, these excuses are a foreign language.
It’s a little hard to explain how, despite the many years I’ve spent covering print industry events, I never got around to attending an SGIA Expo until I took part in the one that ran in New Orleans last October. To state the obvious, I had no idea of what I was missing. Now I see that I’ve missed a lot - but in light of a major announcement made just before the show, I expect that gap in my knowledge to close very rapidly.
When you first start out in sales or as a selling owner, anyone with a pulse is your customer.
I get so many solicitations that my office staff doesn’t usually even pass them along to me. But this one was different.
In “The Week That Was With Julie G,” brought to you by Printing Impressions, several acquisitions have been completed, and much more.
Few would deny that 2018 is shaping up to be a fraught and contentious year politically. But, it isn’t likely that political news of the headline-grabbing, “breaking” variety is going to have all that much to do with issues of primary concern to the printing industry. Those issues, nonetheless, are real, and the need for printers to understand and engage with them has seldom been more urgent.
