You cannot win if you do not play. Or to use a cliché, knowledge is power. What are you doing to ensure you are in the know about the current state of the print market as well as the latest software releases
Knowing security opens opportunities when selling to in-plants and commercial printers, but a software partner with credibility and expertise like RSA is needed to succeed.
Know the customer. That may seem like an obvious statement, but don't underestimate the importance of fully understanding the in-plant customer whether you are out to meet their hardware or software needs.
Latest InfoTrends Research Reaffirms Workflow and Web to Print Software Value. You don't need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows sang Bob Dylan in 1966. But if you are curious about how software is or is not being used by commercial printers and in-plants, the answer my friend can be found in...
Four Tips for Production Print Sales Superiority. If selling production print were easy, every dealer would be doing it. You might even see more dealers attending conferences devoted to production print. But you don't. And you don’t need to be Marvin Gaye to ask, what's going on?
KeyPoint Intelligence estimates that between 2019 and 2021, Variable Data Printing (VDP) will grow at a rate of 10% a year and by 2021, 31% of print volume produced will be variable. That's a significant number! That kind of growth means sooner or later you'll need to discuss the benefits of VDP with your in-plant clients.
How to Avoid Training Customers in Vain You've made the software sale, the installation is complete, now what do you need to do to make sure the customer continues to reap all the benefits of the solution? The success of any new and ongoing software implementation in a print center depends on how well operators
Tacoma public schools reduces in-plant expenses and automates print center workflow thanks to local dealer and RSA.
"Rolling with the Workflow" is a three-part series to help identify candidates for Output Management workflow software. In part one, we cover how to quickly assess a printer environment. Part 2 will describe job management and how it can add value to your solution.
It may not be easy making your presales and post sales pitch perfect but understanding the pitfalls could help you prevail. Selling any software solution can be a challenge. And selling a solution like Web to print, no matter how many benefits you can rattle off at breakneck speed, can potentially be chock full of challenges. Fortunately, most of those challenges are easily avoidable.
When Manny Martinez was recruited 14 months ago to build a production team for CBE Office Solutions in Southern California, he knew that a big part of his success would be to work with RSA to offer production workflow solutions.
The best way for office equipment dealers to move beyond being just "the printer guy" and become an invaluable component of their customers' businesses is by having an intimate understanding of their customers' biggest problems and needs. With this knowledge, dealers can spend a lot more time talking with the customer about the solutions and not just the difficulties.
There is no shortage of opportunity in the production print marketplace. Adding or expanding production print hardware, software, and services is a great way to diversify your existing portfolio with another strong revenue stream. Production print can help your business take on new customers and expand in existing accounts — not to mention help you grab a couple from the competition.
Three Hacks That Will Make Your Customers' Production Print Workflow More Efficient Businesses of all shapes and sizes rely on production printing as part of their customer communications, marketing and billing functions. But as vital as it may be, production print can also be slow, costly and complicated. Where processes are manual, they are prone
Forecast calls for a Bright Future in Production Print Software Recently, Keypoint Intelligence | InfoTrends released its latest production print workflow software market forecast, "North American Production Software Investment Outlook: 2018." The research predicts that global and North American revenue will grow in multiple sectors over the next five years. A lot of this growth
The Biggest W2P Implementation Problems, and How to Avoid Them Technology, logistics and stubborn humans top list of complaints In-plant print centers and print service providers (PSP) recognize the value of Web to print (W2P) software. At a time where "do more with less" is dogma in almost every customer's office that you visit, in-plants
Opportunities in Production Workflow: Customers Want Web to Print, Automation, and VDP According to research recently released by In-plant Graphics ("Software and Automation Trends in the In-plant Industry"), web to print (W2P) platforms, workflow/production automation software, and variable data printing (VDP) solutions represent the best opportunities for dealers in the production workflow space.
What is Production Workflow and Why Should Dealers Care? Article six of our "The 6 'W’s' of Production Print Workflow" series, focusing on the who, what, why, where, when and how's of production print and part of our "Production Print Workflow Education Series" to understand Production Print Workflow.
Timing is Almost Everything Article five of our "The 6 'W's' of Production Print Workflow" series, focusing on the who, what, why, where, when and how's of production print and part of our "Production Print Workflow Education Series" to understand Production Print Workflow. In some of our previous "Six W's of Production Print" series, we learned
A Treasure Map for Success Article four of our "The 6 'W's' of Production Print Workflow" series, focusing on the who, what, why, where, when and how's of production print and part of our "Production Print Workflow Education Series" to understand Production Print Workflow. In the last installment of our "The 6 'W's' of Production Print