Are you ready for 2016?

Despite what we read in the Trade Media (sometimes we are our own worst enemy when it comes to promoting Print), here at JDA we have been very busy, and great employees are still hard to find. The disappointing trend, is so many of our good operational employees are looking outside our industry. Here are…

Time to Walk or Stay?

Are you Ready? In the process of de-cluttering, I came across an industry directory from 2008. Upon flicking through this, it was interesting to observe that five years on, a large percentage of the Employee’s named as Contacts, (key managers) in the Directory are no longer associated with the same Companies. So what does this…

“Easy ways to get more sales”

Easy ways to get more sales Sales Reps – who “owns” the customer?  It is fair to say, many companies are keen to find the Sales Rep that can “hit the ground running”, has an existing client base and huge network of prospects, thousands of dollars of business, and their only objective is to “get…

Do you want that now, later or whenever?

Do you want that now, later or whenever Our resident industry sage ponders ways and means of solving that most vexatious of all printing questions: how to maintain margins in an increasingly competitive market? I know it’s normally not good form to adopt the ‘bad guys’ as role models but sometimes we can learn from those…

Baby Boomers – “Lifestyle Era”

FACT: Did you know that as the ‘Baby Boomers’ start to retire the Australian workforce will need an additional 4.4 MILLION workers?  And not all of these workers are wanting to retire completely. Welcome to the dawning of the ‘Lifestyle Era’ of our workforce.   With a lifetime of experience that can only be earned over time,…

Follow the leaders

Age is no barrier when it comes to running a successful printing business, writes James Cryer, who believes that it is time to start harnessing the wisdom of our elders. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, the collapse of one printing company is an unfortunate accident, but two in the one month is just sheer carelessness. Just…