From the monthly archives: September 2011
It was inevitable. This morning, while looking over my ads through real-time searching, I found another print company copying us. I mean, the more I dig into the website, the more its blatantly clear that we’ve been copycatted and it stings. Sure, many print websites offer very similar styles, paper options, policies, but there are [...]
Eastman Kodak Co., the 131-year-old camera maker, stock prices have dropped crazy lately now sitting at a $1.55 – $1.65 per share range, the lowest since 1974. A month ago the stocks were sitting around $2.75 – $3.50. The recent tumbling began a couple days ago when Kodak tapped a credit line last week, and [...]
That’s what the tech blogosphere expects to happen, including Mashable and Techcrunch, on Wednesday at an Amazon press conference. The maker of the world’s most popular e-book reader is rumored to be announcing a color, touch-screen tablet device called the “Kindle Fire,” according to the blog TechCrunch, which claims to have seen the gadget and [...]
We don’t advertise in phone books, newspapers, magazines or by radio. This might sound strange coming from a guy who owns a print company, but as a small business we need to be able to measure our marketing success. It’s not necessarily that classic advertising doesn’t work, I just think those media companies have not [...]
Canon Inc. and Océ N.V. announced the launch of two new production printing systems developed jointly by the two companies: a monochrome production printer series equipped with Canon finishing and scanning technology, and a high-speed color multifunction system series incorporating Océ controller technology. Since Canon welcomed Océ into the Canon Group in March 2010, the [...]
I’m just going to come out and say it. I hate business cards. Considering, I own a print company, that’s a bold statement. I despise carrying them, receiving them and trying to organize them. At our offices, we do offer generic cards since some customers expect them, but I’d love to get rid of them [...]
Let’s hope so, because I’ve been investing long in Sprint stocks betting on it. Basically, rumors have been flying since August that the Sprint will be the third network to offer Apple’s Iphone. For years, Sprint has suffered tremendously losing millions per quarter and many attribute that decline to the lack of carrying the most [...]
Ricoh Americas, a leading provider of digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions and services, announced that the New York Giants have named Ricoh as its Official Document Solutions Partner. As part of this new relationship, Ricoh will be implementing a Managed Document Services (MDS) solution. MDS is Ricoh’s unique offering that brings together [...]
The owners of our print company wanted to build a unique, customized e-commerce solution. That requires a programmer. But did we have to go that route? Luckily, my partner is a “programmer’ yet he requires a programmer salary, so we had to decide if that expense made sense. We’re talking a 50-75K annual salary, which [...]
Okay, so we know that the Ipad is not only the dominate player in the tablet market, but Apple is the only company that “gets it” right? Not a single tablet, no matter the OS, has been able to touch Apple in the tablet arena, but if anyone can, its Amazon. I’ve already expressed that [...]
