What Role Do Labels Play In Your Organization?

In Business Today, Labels Are More Than Logos Ask the average consumer walking through a mall or grocery store what a “label” is, and they’ll probably describe the kind you find on a jar of peanut butter or pair of jeans. That’s only logical as it would be almost...

3 Business Takeaways From New Print On Demand Paris Bookstore

Efficiency Gives Customers the Print-On-Demand Experience They Want Wait, what’s this?  A new bookstore opening?  You’ve all heard the pronouncements that print is dead in one way or another. Well, the opening – or re-opening – of this print-on-demand...

When Invoice Processing Goes Wrong…Your Business Pays

When Invoice Processing Goes Wrong, The Cost to Your Business is High Whether the invoice processing is completed internally or externally, you expect every invoice to be prepared, and delivered via USPS, fax or email with trackable results. If a customer calls and...

How to Overcome Separation (From Work) Anxiety and Unplug!

When Was The Last Time YOU Unplugged? In a recent post, I talked about why it is so important to “unplug” from work; to not be available at all hours of the day and night. Evidence shows that it is necessary to cut those ties to the office, at least for a while, in...

Direct Mail With Video? Here’s a Marketing Approach You Have to Watch

Direct Mail with Video? Here’s A Marketing Idea That Really Needs Watching If you’re a regular reader, you know I like direct mail because current research shows that it’s a great way to separate yourself from competitors who think “all digital” is the only way to go...

Offices All Over the Place? Your Print Materials Don’t Have To Be

Many Locations? You Need One Quality Standard for Print Chances are good that your enterprise operates in more than one location. If you are in manufacturing, you may have several production facilities, warehousing and administrative offices. Perhaps you are a retail...

Supply Chain Management. It’s Time to Build, Not Bid

Your Print Supply Chain and Promotional Product Management is Too Important For The “Deal of the Day” In a recent post, I talked about the importance of taking a consultative approach, rather than dealing with print projects or promotional product order as a “one-off”...

Digital Statement Processing: The Key To Cash Flow

Electronic Invoicing Is More Secure, More Accurate, and More Profitable Sometimes big ideas are hiding in less-than-obvious places. Many companies consider billing, invoicing and collecting activities as something of a necessary evil. This is pretty natural. While...

Could Print Newsletters Be Your Secret Marketing Weapon?

3 Big Reasons Print Newsletters Are Big Business Boosters In Tuesday’s post, I offered several good reasons to include print in your content marketing program. In my opinion, they were pretty compelling reasons. Hidden in that post was a reference to what I would...

5 Reasons Print Needs to Be Part of Your Content Marketing Mix

Digital Is Great – But It Can’t Replace Print! Today, as most marketers know, it’s all about using content to build relationships that will equate to sales. Messages aren’t measured by how catchy your slogan is, or by the number of sales points you can...

3 Proven Benefits to Students Learning with Print and Paper

Lessons Learned About The Importance of Paper and Print I was alerted to a wonderful column in USA Today recently by Two Sides NA. The article was written by Tal Gross, a faculty member at Columbia University. In it, he shared his strong conviction that, putting it...

Technology Is a Choice – #MindfulTech

The pace of new advances in technology is incredible, and that’s exciting. Who doesn’t like the idea of new developments in science, medicine, business and any other field? Sure, the blizzard of new ideas can be daunting, but the benefits brought by many of them are wonderful. I wouldn’t dream of slowing things down.

Success Is A Process. Just Ask ISO

Over the next couple of months, I’m going to be talking periodically about how the things we do here at Superior Business Solutions in order to maintain ISO standards have a direct impact on you and your business. Each post will feature one of the key content areas listed in the requirements for certification.

Today, I’d like to focus on what ISO standards call a “process approach” to conducting your business.

In Business, It’s All About the Process

A Superior Process For Your Print Management and Promotional Items If you’ve spent any time around schoolteachers, you have probably heard this phrase more than once: process over product. What does it mean? Well, it means that knowing how to find an answer is the...

How to Drive Down Operating Costs with Supply Chain Management

You’ll Find Savings if You Know Where to Look You’ve probably heard the expression ‘death by a thousand cuts.” Well, I think that’s a pretty good description for the way many – even most – businesses fall short of maximum productivity. It’s no one big...

Document Security Threats Are On The Rise…Is Your Business Protected?

Gain Knowledge on Document Security Solutions Download Your Free Risk Analysis White Paper On Document Security HERE!  Counterfeiting of sensitive documents is a major problem for many businesses today. The document risks to businesses as well as their consumers...

Enhanced Produce Traceability Standards Ahead – Are You Ready?

New Produce Traceability Labeling Requirements From The FDA On those quaint drives through the countryside in many of our heavy produce-growing states, it can be almost tranquil to see fields planted full of a wide range of delicious fruits, vegetables and produce....

New Food Label Proposed by FDA…Will You Be Ready?

Nutrition Labels Get Read – So You’d Better Get Ready Obviously, many things have changed a great deal since 1993 and most of them come to mind pretty quickly. The first things you probably think of are smartphones, the Internet, cable TV, digital music...