As useful as laminating may be, it does not come without its challenges. New developments across hardware and materials have made life easier for industry professionals but there are still several issues that crop up and cause headaches for those in laminating work.
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When you migrated from Premier to QBO, some of the orders were written with sales tax calculations in Premier and some with the automated sales tax in QBO. This results in multiple lines of sales taxes data.
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Collecting postage stamps sparked my interest in the wide world of mail: first-class, business, airmail, you name it.
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One of the most common and recurring themes that come up in discussion during strategy sessions with executive leaders is a frustration with plans that move forward only to stall out “inside the Red Zone.”
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Every day I see people posting and sharing how to grow followers. I concede that’s important, but it isn’t the main thing. Knowing how to convert is the main thing.
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U.S. marketers are projected to spend $37.3 billion on direct mail in 2024, reflecting a 2.6% growth from the previous year. Despite rising postage costs and competition from digital media, 81% of surveyed brands plan to increase their direct mail budgets in 2025.
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If you aren’t familiar with the Improving Disclosure for Investors Act of 2024, S. 3815, you aren’t alone. It’s been in the legislative pipeline for some time, but surprisingly few people know about it. This legislation, which would change the rules for delivery of investor documents and undermine the print resale income for many print distributors, has already passed the House of Representatives and is moving on to the Senate. This legislation bad for print resellers, and urgent action is needed. The current default for investor documents is paper delivery…
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Print-centric companies that proactively grow via an M&A strategy go back and forth, shifting directions, alternately completing transactions that bring in additional print volume, and then subsequently acquiring a company with services that are adjacent to print, but not core to the mission of putting ink on paper.
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Bill Farquharson looks into his crystal ball and predicts 10 things that will happen in your sales future.
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If you are like most people, I imagine you think you are coachable. But are you really? Here are 3 questions to help you find out for yourself: There are only a few reasons that the average distributor in our industry has sales well under $500,000 per year. In my opinion, having spoken with hundreds of thousands of distributor owners and sales reps, most people are underperformers because they are not coachable. When people start out telling me that they’ve been in the business XX number of years, I know…
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