From the monthly archives: August 2011
Recently, I’ve been investing in Sprint stocks despite the company’s discouraging financials. I have my many reasons, which I intend to share on a future post, but I was astounded that Sprint’s shopping website was incompatible with the Ipad. We’re talking so much flash usage that the website renders completely broken. Why a MOBILE carrier [...]
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Last week, a friend of mine invested some into Kodak due to its patent portfolio, which is very hot right now. The first few days, he was losing about .60 per share, but now he’s up .40 per share. That means the stock has risen one full dollar in three days. He writes: Kodak has [...]
A few weeks ago, The Black Eyed Peas Peapod Foundation and the Adobe Foundation announced a new Peapod Adobe Youth Voices music and multimedia academy for youth in San Jose, Calif. The new academy expands on the network of existing academies in New York, Los Angeles, Oakland and Redwood City, Calif. Through their Peapod Adobe [...]
Wowsers. What a week or two for Apple eh? In case you missed any of it, here’s a recap. 1. Steve Jobs retired. You only don’t know about this if you live in a hole or third world country. The infamous Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of Apple, leaving the helm to Tim Cook, [...]
Holy crap. Facebook doesn’t offer conversion tracking for its advertisers. Sure, they offer tracking for new likes, page views and in-app downloads, but I want to know just how many of my followers are actually buying our print products. For instance, Google Adwords allows you to paste a small script into the footer of your [...]
How many of you printers and designers are playing Fantasy Football? Last year was actually the first time I ever played, and at age 36 I’m hooked. Last year was the first for almost our entire league so we avoided the draft and used the default ESPN settings. That left little strategy to the game. [...]
Xerox Corporation will manage global print operations across more than 460 Cisco offices, making printing services easily accessible to employees working from different locations, using a variety of desktop and mobile devices. As part of a new managed print services (MPS) strategy, Xerox will provide the Cisco workforce with more cost-effective ways to produce and [...]
Hewlett-Packard Co. may spin off its personal computer business – the world’s largest – as well as continue to reconfigure itself as a corporate technology provider by acquiring the British software firm Autonomy Corp. This is not surprising since the PC business is slowing down, but the company also said it would discontinue production of [...]
Big news in the technology world today. So Google is acquiring Motorola Mobility stating the combination will supercharge Android, enhance Competition, and offer wonderful user experiences. How will this affect Microsoft and will Microsoft eventually have to purchase Nokia? Here’s the press release: Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MMI) today [...]
I’ve always been a fan of Dr. Seuss…who isn’t? When I spotted this on Publishers Weekly, I had to pass it along. The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories, a collection of seven tales by Seuss were first published in Redbook in 1950 and 1951. They are appearing in book format for the first time, [...]
As a completely digital printer, we’ve been dealing with click charge plans for some time now, most notably with Xerox. I have to tell you, its a love / hate relationship so if you intend to enter a new contract for a digital production machine based on clicks, I have some advice for you. There [...]
This week is sad for our print company – or maybe just for me. This is our production manager’s last week, and I’m honestly very disappointed he’s leaving. The production manager position can be a high stress spot since it entails quality control, staff management and much more. Every position is essential since we’re a [...]
A while back we used the visual.ly infographic service to set up a Twitter battle between Zazzle vs. Cafepress. The two companies had surprisingly different results yet the battle appeared to be a tie. We searched for infographics concerning the print industry and here’s what we found. 1. Is Print Dead? Description: We all know [...]
The reason I started this blog in the first place is to help print companies, sign shops or design firms move their business online. We’re very familiar with the conversion process because we did it. This is why we write a great deal of online tips designated for small businesses in our field. When we [...]
Vudu made a move, which I suspect many companies will follow suit, especially publishers, and Apple must have foreseen this would eventually happen. Mashable writes: Instead of launching an iPad app for its video-streaming service Vudu, Walmart has launched an iPad-optimized website — bypassing the 30% cut in revenue that Apple takes from all in-app [...]
As an entrepreneur, I not only search for ways to grow and become more profitable, I also want to create an nice environment to work in. I daresay there are already some perks working for our small business, but I don’t think we have anything super appealing that stands out. One major benefit as an [...]
The NBM Show is brought to you by A&E, Printwear and Sign & Digital Graphics magazines and is the place where these three business publications come to life. You will find the very latest in sign making, digital printing, apparel decorating, engraving and personalization, all in the same exhibit hall! By combining three syngeristic markets [...]
Setting up facebook ads is relatively easy to do and it can be pretty gratifying to see the available demographics. Many companies implement Facebook ads to increase direct sales and long-term branding. In our print business’s marketing plan, we were trying to build an audience by adding connections (or likes). The trick was to attract [...]
