Business Management - Marketing/Sales

Identifying Buying Personalities - Short Attention Span Webinar
February 15, 2013

Understanding the type of Buyer you are dealing with can be the difference between a successful sales call and one where you can hear the crickets chirp in the background. In this week's Short Attention Span Webinar, Bill and Kelly give you clues and insight into picking up the personality traits of your customer or prospect.

How to Make an Effective Presentation - Short Attention Span Webinar
February 8, 2013

You just nailed a huge appointment. Congratulations! Now what? If you don't know how to make the most of this opportunity, all of your hard work will be for naught. In this week's Short Attention Span Webinar, Bill and Kelly give you ideas for nailing the sales call.

Farquharson/Tedesco on Business Development: Learn from A/B Testing Results
February 1, 2013

Every printed promotional piece your company produces needs analytics—whether through a QR code or just a URL. Otherwise, how the heck will you and your client know if it worked? Imagine if Isaac Newton had failed to record the results of his apple-headache experiment because it was "too much of a hassle."

Mobile Technologies: Bringing New Life to Print
February 1, 2013

Keeping an open mind, recognizing profit potential and identifying a point of entry was all the fodder that Quad/Graphics needed to embark on its mobile technologies platform, Interactive Print Solutions (IPS). Actually, it was a direct result of QIC (Quad Idea Catapult)—the company's innovation process management framework—vetting the technologies and creating IPS as a vehicle toward delivering mobile technologies to customers. It helps that Quad/Graphics CEO Joel Quadracci not only gave the endeavor his full blessing, but acts as an evangelist for the mobile technologies.

OSU Open House A Graveyard Smash
December 1, 2012

For years, Oregon State University Printing and Mailing Services has been holding a Halloween Open House, with staff dressing in costumes and Halloween-themed snacks and games. This year’s event, with the theme Great Pumpkin Carnival, drew more than 125 people. They spent their time playing games, like the pumpkin bean bag toss and the coin toss for charity, and winning small prizes, like mini footballs and fortune cookies.

Why Would You Listen to Me?
December 1, 2012

You don't know me. We've never met. You've never been to my department. We've never done business together. But we could, couldn't we? What would I/could I/should I do to get your attention—to get you to consider me instead of the others who do what I do?

Rethink Price Discounting –Farquharson/Tedesco
December 1, 2012

It's a fact: the easiest and least expensive way to grow sales is to sell more to current customers. By rewarding clients and giving them an incentive to keep working with you, you'll earn their continued loyalty and more of their business.