10 Inspiring Quotes EVERY Procurement Professional Needs to Read
Whether you are looking for inspirational quotes for procurement, or you are looking to get a quote for print supply chain management or promotional product, check out our post to gain insights and opportunity for both.
Want to Lower the Cost of Your Custom Labels and Tags? Here’s How to Do It
Make Superior Your “Tag Team” Most consumers don’t think much about custom labels and tags, beyond the prices on everyday products. They’d probably be surprised to learn how many are on the average new car. (Think under the hood, on the doorpost, and hidden spots like...
12 Mining Industry Promotional Items to Unearth Added Sales and Safety
Employees and Prospects Will “Dig” These Promotional Products The American mining industry is booming, with significant growth in crude oil and natural gas production in the last several years. The increased need for many other minerals such as copper and...
7 Ways a Customized Drone Could Help Your Business Take Off
Customized Drones Are Ready to Give Your Business a Lift At first, I was tempted to fill today’s post with a lot of drone-related wordplay like the headlines (sorry for those). But I won’t. Because I want you to take the idea of using customized drones for...
Our Top 10 Print & Promo Blog Posts for 2019…What Did You Miss That Might Cost You Next Year?
Here are Our Readers’ Top Picks for Print & Promo Content for 2019…What Did You Miss? It’s only natural that, at this time of year, we all take a look back at the year’s “best this”, or the year’s “top that”. We’re going to join...
2020 Pantone Color of the Year Is a Look Back to Move Forward
Pantone Color of 2020 Is 19-4052 Classic Blue I’m feeling a little blue today. To be honest, I’m feeling a lot of it. But not because I’m sad or unhappy. I’m just celebrating the announcement of Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2020: Classic Blue. And I think it’s an...
3 Critical Criteria in Judging a Prospective Business Partner
Three Things That Separate a Vendor from a Partner As I’m sure you’ve noticed, I spend a lot of time on this blog talking about business efficiency. Sometimes it’s sales tips and others, the value of specific tools like print-on-demand. I also frequently stress how...
The Best Document Security Defense Starts with a Download
Assessing and Defending Against Document Security Threats I’m sure you try to safeguard the security of the documents you generate in your business. But it’s also likely that you feel vaguely uneasy when you hear news stories about counterfeiting, duplication and...
6 Effective Ways to Use QR Codes to Increase Business Easily and Inexpensively
They’re More Effective Than Ever Is smart marketing dead? Is effective sales strategy dead? No, of course not. So I wish people would stop asking the question “Are QR codes dead?” because that question is just as silly. In fact, here’s a much better question:...
THE Latest LUXE List of Promotional Gifts for Your Key Players
Special Promotional Gifts for Those Special to Your Business We talked about corporate holiday gifts in recent posts. But today I’m going to focus on corporate gifts for the people you want to focus upon most. We shared our list of luxe promotional gifts last year but...
This Tip Creates Business Cards That Sell
Create Business Cards That Work to Avoid the Wastebasket Most business people have a love-hate relationship with business cards. It’s great when they lead to a profitable relationship. But they are more often a “necessary evil” and do little good. As it turns out,...
6 Sales Tips to Turn Your Holiday Selling Season from Ho-Hum to Ho-Ho-Ho
Don’t Write Off the Holidays When You Could Be Writing Up Sales Sure, there are people who complain that the holiday season has become “too commercial.” But for most of us, shopping, going to festively decorated malls and buying presents is a real part of...
The Secret to Buying the Most Effective Promotional Gifts
Remember That They’re People, Not Job Titles It’s a common question, especially during the holiday season. I’d like to give a gift to my clients and top prospects. Or I’d like to have a little something for my employees to thank them for a year of...
Top 10 Blogs for Print Procurement Pros
If Procuring Print Is Your Business, These Blogs Are Your Library. Funny thing about clichés: often, they’re true! You’ve probably heard that today, “knowledge is power” and “information is currency.” Well, it is. And it is. And if you deal in print procurement (from...
Here’s How to Scare Away Your Competitors and Increase Efficiencies
When You Have Print Supply Chain Management, They Won’t Say “Boo” Sorry for the attempt at Halloween humor. But the spooky season does give me a chance to talk about a frightful mistake many companies are still making with their print management and...
9 Sales & Marketing Enablement Services That Build Business: Part 2
Marketing Enablement Helps Prospects Become Customers In my last post, I began a short series on how sales and marketing enablement can help maximize the results of your sales efforts. It covered three sales enablement services that set the stage for a more focused...
9 Time-Saving Sales & Marketing Enablement Services
Save Time and Build Business With Sales Enablement—Part 1 of 2 You’re in business for a reason. Even if you love every minute on the job, your primary goal is to make sales (Or with a non-profit or advocacy group, change opinions or perceptions). You will benefit from...
Need an Industrial Label Printer? Here’s How to Work with a Winner
For the Best Industrial Labels, Stick to Experience I’d like to challenge you to think about two things today. The first one is what some custom labels must go through. No, not those arty little labels on wine bottles and fine cosmetics. Here, I’m talking about labels...