Monday, August 25th, 2008
"Montgomery Ward" - does that name ring a bell? When we were kids - way back when - we called it the "Monkey Ward" catalog... This week's DMNews reported on a number of acquisitions in the catalog industry that triggered some thoughts for me, some of them a bit nostalgic. Montgomery ...Monday, August 25th, 2008
Over at the Digital Nirvana blog Heidi Tolliver-Nigro takes a look at the use of promotional messages on transactional documents and asks how effective can TransPromo be if when combining promotions with something no one likes to receive — their bill: if you’re talking about transpromo credit card statements, for ...Sunday, August 24th, 2008
There is a widespread belief that the primary benefit of a lean business system is lower costs. And there's no doubt that lean methodologies can help a company get costs under control. The perception that lean means cost cutting is often reinforced because many companies turn to lean when they're ...Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Pat McGrew, Kodak's Data Center & Transaction Segment Evangelist has a blog post up on Grow Your Biz on making sure you don't alienate your customers that are not online: The folks at the New York Times pushed a story about the decline in Broadband subscriptions. Another story from a couple ...Monday, August 18th, 2008
BusinessWeek has an article online about how Germany's papers are doing fine despite the ad flight to the Web. The article cites the success of Bild, a Berlin daily with 12 million readers had it most profitable year in 2007 and the national-affairs daily Die Welt, which made its first profit ...Sunday, August 17th, 2008
The new lean manufacturing forum at PrintPlanet is now up and running, and it's off to a good start. Becoming lean is clearly an important objective for many printing company managers. Sustainability has also become an important topic in the printing industry. For example, WhatTheyThink.com now has ...Thursday, August 14th, 2008
The Open Publishing Lab at RIT's School of Print Media was selected to receive a HP Labs Innovation Award. RIT was chosen from more than 450 proposals from 200 universities in 28 countries HP received. According to HP Labs, "Awardees will work with HP Labs researchers on speculative and potentially game-changing ...Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
I will be writing about InfoTrends’ second annual TransPromo Summit in more detail in the pages of WhatTheyThink, but I just wanted to take a moment to scribble down a few thoughts at the conclusion of the first day. Last year, there were about 300 attendees at the first TransPromo ...Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
The Minneapolis Star Tribune has the story on continued industry consolidation with coverage of Minneapolis-based Bolger buying the assets of bankrupt Minneapolis-based Diversified Graphics. In 2005 Diversified Graphics was bought out by its senior management team and a private-equity firm. Bolger had the winning bid at $10 million for the Diversified Graphics ...Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Chief Marketer has an article by Peter Meyers of ICOM Information and Communications on mail preferences of 18-34 year olds. Meyers says younger demographics prefer direct mail citing a recent survey conducted by ICOM Information and Communications of 1529 households. The survey results suggests Young professionals ages 18-34 communicated a strong preference ...
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