Archive for February, 2007

WhatTheyThink.com to Launch Economic and Research Center, Dr. Joe Webb To Direct

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

UPDATE 3/5/07 -- The acquisition was officially announced this morning. Here is a link to the full press release and the audio of an interview/conversation between Dr. Joe Webb and WhatTheyThink's Randy Davidson. 3/1/07 -- We want to let readers of PrintCEOblog.com be among the first to learn about some exciting ...

Adobe Attempts to Head Off Google with Online Photoshop

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Saw this coming with the recent PhotoBucket announcement: Hoping to get a jump on Google and other competitors, Adobe Systems plans to release a hosted version of its popular Photoshop image-editing application within six months, the company's chief executive said Tuesday. I don't imagine hosted applications have much impact on the larger ...

“Selling and Marketing Digital Printing to Ad Agencies” Webinar

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Yesterdays event set new records for us and was both fun and informative. If you missed it, the full archive is up now at WTT (including answers to questions we ran out of time for). Thanks again to Frank Romano for hosting and to Fujifilm for their generous ...

Overseas Markets Continue Downward Slide (Dr. Joe Comments)

Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

Yesterday we got news that stocks had the worst day since the 9/11 attacks. Today doesn't seem to be faring much better as the slide in Asia which is affecting Europe and U.S. markets continues: Asian and European stock markets headed down again Wednesday after a broad global sell-off the ...

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Works for Birthday Cakes Too

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Business process outsourcing (BPO) is serious business, see today's article on WhatTheyThink.com (Print Brokering, Print Management, Business Process Outsourcing - What's the Difference? - Subscription required). However, BPO can be applied to any number of functions (processes); for example, the process of acquiring a birthday cake for a child. So ...

The best of the best, Sandy Alexander

Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Sandy Alexander is among the best run companies in the printing industry and is very likely THE best in North America. WhatTheyThink.com's contributing editor Jean Marie Hershey recently interviewed Sandy's CEO Roy Grossman. Headquartered in Clifton, N.J., the privately owned, $140 million company augments its extensive web and sheet fed ...

Postal Rate Commission Recommends 7.6% Rate Increase

Monday, February 26th, 2007

We're coming down to the wire on the rate increases from the latest postal rate case. The Postal Rate Commission handed down their recommendations for rates today. See DMNews for the announcement. The total requested rate increase is not as high as some feared; however the actual burden of cost ...

IAB in Print Gets Blog Reactions

Monday, February 26th, 2007

News of The Interactive Advertising Bureau launching a printed supplement with AdWeek called "MIXX" Magazine got predicted reaction among bloggers in the printing and publishing industries and beyond. Both Adam of Printmode and Dr. Joe Webb were not surprised. Neither was Rex Hammock, who had the best analogy I ...

WhatTheyThink.com Acquires PrintPlanet.com

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

On Monday, WhatTheyThink.com plans to announce the purchase of PrintPlanet.com which is currently owned by Printable Technologies. As many know, PrintPlanet.com is the printing industry's largest forum community with over 10,000 unique members. We are very excited about this purchase. The forums will remain free to all and we plan to ...

Market Research Within Reach of the Rest of Us

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

The whopping price tags on many print industry research reports bring to mind the old joke about the guy selling apples on the street corner for $10,000 apiece. A far better deal is Supplier and Service Provider Priorities: 2006 Survey Results from InfoTrends, the Department of Graphic Communications at Clemson ...