Printing Jobs are Not DIY Projects Who among us hasn’t painted a room, or tackled a weekend project around the house? But most of us are smart enough to know (or learn pretty quickly, as in my case) what things we are better off having professionals handle. Think...
Here’s How to Hire Proven Print Management Performers Last week, I talked about how you could save a great deal of money and employee time in how you manage your company’s printing needs. Rather than spending your valuable time on it, or putting it on the...
Print Management Is a Better Way to Handle Your Printing Owning or managing a business is a snap, right? Ha, I didn’t think so. Today’s competitive environment adds pressure every day. It’s more difficult than ever to keep things running properly and profitably, yet...
Print Supply Chain Management: An Opportunity for Profit I’ve given this post a pretty basic headline. And I’ll answer the question it asks in a moment. But first, let’s look at why people are losing money in business by failing to understand what print supply chain...
Print-on-Demand Turns Creativity into Productivity If you are a regular reader, you know I am a big believer in the efficiency of our variable print-on-demand technologies. The benefits are just so obvious. First, it gives you the ability to update and/or customize...
See How Printing Is Handled at Today’s Successful Companies with Managed Print Services You can find many definitions online for managed print services. Some of them come from a very limited perspective, as if maintaining a few printers and copy machines were all you...
Is Your Business Using Today’s Technology To Meet Your Printing Needs? Most of us probably think of Uber as a forward-thinking company. It not only pioneered a popular ride-sharing service, but has invested heavily into self-driving cars. But Uber is apparently...
Quiet Time Isn’t a Luxury – It’s a Valuable Tool In a post last week, I talked about the importance of “quiet times” in your day to help make you more creative and productive. An article in the Harvard Business Review laid out several scientific...
West Michigan Business Is Ready For Its Closeup On Monday morning I appeared as a guest on a popular local morning television show. It’s a “magazine” format show called eightWest on WOOD-TV Channel 8, here in West Michigan. Two other guests joined me...
Spend Less, Get More in Printing and Promotional Items My grandfather started Superior Business Solutions in 1924. After almost 100 years in the print and promotional products business, we know a thing or two about staying ahead of the game. If you own or manage a...
How Will You Spend the Time Managed Print Services Will Save You In Your Workday? Okay, I won’t deny it. This post is aimed at getting you to do something. But honestly, it’s just as much about what you ought to stop doing. That is, wasting costly amounts of time and...
Custom Labels Add Value and Attract Attention If you market a product, its packaging does a lot more than contain it. When your product sits on the shelf or other marketing display, that package is the last and the best chance you have to grab a potential customer’s...
Printing Big Envelope Quantities Could Mean a Big Opportunity If your business goes through large quantities of envelopes each month, you know that can be costly in both money and manpower. We are happy to help, of course, in printing and supplying those envelopes...
Combine Visual Management Tools with Supply Chain Management Technology for 5S and LEAN Manufacturing Success In my last post I talked about addressing the 7 wastes identified in LEAN Manufacturing. Today I want to talk about 5S methodology and LEAN implementation...
LEAN Adds Logic to Supply Chain Management Solutions We have addressed the seven wastes in LEAN manufacturing in previous posts. LEAN manufacturing is a relatively new concept to American business, and it required vision and plenty of “getting used to” to understand...
For Commercial Printing, the Right Choice Makes Sense – and Money In Tuesday’s post, I talked about the importance of commercial printing to businesses today, working hand in hand with digital platforms to meet consumers wherever they access information. Today,...
Commercial Printing Is More Important (and Easier) Than Ever All things digital remain the trendy topic today, but commercial printing is a more central part of business than it has ever been. That’s because most businesses run day-to-day operations on printed forms....
Automotive Supply Chain Management Solutions Benefit Your Business Almost Immediately In Tuesday’s post, I talked about the importance of supply chain management solutions in the automotive industry. In the process, I mentioned a recent trip we took to an automotive...
Customize Your Supply Chain to Reduce Costs and Add Efficiency Last week I shared some interesting information from the automotive forum we recently attended Mexico. I highlighted the lack of critical supply chain resources to support the automotive industry in a...
Here’s How to Make Printing Services Easy to Save Time and Money Maybe you’ve noticed those “dollar stores” popping up everywhere these days. I’m fine with that—a dollar store can be a convenient place to grab an item or two quickly, at a pretty reasonable...
