Maintain Valuable Connections with Funky Chunky Goodness for Employees and Key Contacts These are challenging times we’re going through. So many of us are working from home, trying to keep our companies thriving. But how do you send a positive message that “we’re all...
Need Special Promotional Gifts for Employees Working From Home? This One Is Just Right In Tuesday’s post, we talked about the many folks suddenly working from home. I ended with a joke about that beloved workplace icon, your special coffee mug. Well, today, I’d like...
The Best Custom Label Provider Will Help Protect Your Business For consumers, a label only has two jobs: attract their attention and provide the information they need to purchase and use the product. But when you run a business, it’s more complicated than that. Your...
PRINT on it? COUNT on it – with Pad Printing Marketing is all about making an impression. Creating a memorable experience with customers and prospects. Wouldn’t it be great to do that by giving out unique, high-end, brand-name merchandise with your company logo on...
Make Superior Your “Tag Team” Most consumers don’t think much about custom labels and tags, beyond the prices on everyday products. They’d probably be surprised to learn how many are on the average new car. (Think under the hood, on the doorpost, and hidden spots like...
Customized Drones Are Ready to Give Your Business a Lift At first, I was tempted to fill today’s post with a lot of drone-related wordplay like the headlines (sorry for those). But I won’t. Because I want you to take the idea of using customized drones for...
Three Things That Separate a Vendor from a Partner As I’m sure you’ve noticed, I spend a lot of time on this blog talking about business efficiency. Sometimes it’s sales tips and others, the value of specific tools like print-on-demand. I also frequently stress how...
Save Time and Build Business With Sales Enablement—Part 1 of 2 You’re in business for a reason. Even if you love every minute on the job, your primary goal is to make sales (Or with a non-profit or advocacy group, change opinions or perceptions). You will benefit from...
Living at the Office is Overrated Chances are you love your job. You normally don’t get to be an owner, manager or successful without feeling that way. But that doesn’t mean you want to spend every waking hour doing that job. Some still view “burning the midnight oil”...
Wise Words About Stress from a Wide Range of Achievers I understand, I really do. You’re busy. And no matter how well intended, my posts here may feel sometimes like they are just giving you one more issue to think about. I often write about promotional items...
Do People Use QR Codes? “Quick Response” is a Business Necessity Do people use QR codes? People ask me that question from time to time, and I understand why. It’s because certain “too cool for the room” techies pronounced QR codes dead years ago, and apparently...
How Many of Our “Other Services” Are You Missing? “Wow. I didn’t know you guys did that!” You’d be surprised how often we hear that. (I’m just quoting here, don’t blame me for the “guys” part.) But most people know Superior Business Solutions primarily for...
An Easier Workday is a More Productive Workday I saw an interesting article the other day about the newest version of iOS (the Apple operating system). It includes changes that make its “Do Not Disturb” feature more useful. New tweaks make it even more useful for...
Take Out the Chaos, Take Out the Cost. In Tuesday’s post, I discussed how e-procurement technology could add accuracy and efficiency in getting custom labels. That reminded me it was probably time to remind you once again what e-procurement can do for many aspects of...
Keep Production of Your Custom Labels Flowing and Your Business Growing For many businesses, “the busy season” is approaching, or it’s already here. That’s especially true if your company depends on holiday orders for survival. Chances are your production is...
The Hero of Direct Mail In the last few posts, we’ve been talking about direct mail. Research presented by the United States Post Office contained some surprising findings about “advertising mail.” I’ve used it so far to talk about what you might be doing wrong, and...
Smart Sending = Wise Spending On Tuesday, I wrote about the lack of results in direct mail marketing that some companies report from their efforts. When I hear that, I can be pretty sure of one thing. Chances are, the direct mail “didn’t work” because the company...
It Can Happen to Any Business. But It Doesn’t Have to Happen to YOURS. In Thursday’s post, I mentioned ten of the most noteworthy data breaches that have happened already in 2018. I’d love to say I didn’t mean to scare you, but I did. That’s because we at...
Their Choice is YOUR Opportunity I thought about giving this post a much simpler title: “Getting Paid.” Because today I’d like to follow up a bit on last week’s post, where I talked about giving customers a choice of receiving invoices and statements digitally or in...
What You Pick and How You Pack Both Matter You send things to customers. You probably also send things to prospects, hoping to turn them into customers. And as I’m sure you have discovered, you can blow through lots of employee time gathering up, packaging and...
Are Your Mailings Packed with Efficiency? Stop me if you’ve heard this one. “A brochure, a letter, a product sample and a premium item go into a box…” Okay, you caught me. That’s not really a joke. But it is a kit. A pretty typical one, actually. And it’s my way of...
Waste #7: Overproduction—Part 8 of 8: Addressing the Seven Wastes in LEAN Manufacturing with Corporate Kiosk Today, let’s take on the final “waste” in our series about the seven areas of waste identified in LEAN manufacturing. For a couple weeks now, we’ve been...
