Opinion: Alert! Improving Disclosure for Investors Act of 2024 Is Bad for Print Resellers

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…

Target Report: Zig-Zagging

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.

Ten 2025 Sales Predictions

Bill Farquharson looks into his crystal ball and predicts 10 things that will happen in your sales future.

Are You Coachable?

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…